February 10, 2016
By The Morning News
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- After Trump triumphs in New Hampshire, GOP envisions a long, bruising fight to secure a palatable competitor.
- Sanders’s youth movement powered by revived energy in the new campus left.
- Gloria Steinem's comment—that young women are supporting Sanders to meet boys—shows the rift between imperial and intersectional feminism.
- Oral history of Funny or Die's 50-minute secret movie about Trump, starring Johnny Depp.
- See also: Donald Trump's The Art Of The Deal: The Movie.
- Pianist Marcus Roberts's new EP, “Race for the White House,” tries to capture the candidates in jazz.
- Beyonce's "sexually charged mention" of Red Lobster in her new single boosts the restaurant chain's sales by a third.
- Study tests lobster dishes in restaurants, finds a third of them containing cheaper seafood instead.
- Florida man throws a live alligator through a Wendy's drive-through window.
- The American practice of tipping employees in hospitality industries started with slavery.
- Twelve years after the initial FOIA request, Pentagon still fights the release of photos documenting torture under Bush.
- Unrelated: History of the thong.
- Brooks: There's a lot we'll miss when Obama leaves, namely integrity, humanity, good manners, and elegance.
- Supreme Court blocks Obama's coal regulations—first time ever granting a request to halt regulation before review by a federal appeals court.
- "McMindfulness" refers to the commodified, marketized, and reductionist version of mindfulness practice.
- Lessons from a teenage Snapchatter.
- New patent awarded to Google suggests a future of self-driving delivery trucks.
- Open letter: How not to kill a cyclist.
- Consciously or not, people sigh about every five minutes—a vital reflex that takes in twice the normal volume of air.
- Fascinating eating journal from woman who sells ingredients to Gwyneth Paltrow.
