February 4, 2016
- UN panel says Julian Assange is being arbitrarily held by the UK under threat of arrest.
- Trump says Cruz stole Iowa with voter fraud and wants his win disqualified.
- Iowa doesn’t decide the nominee. But it does send a clear signal about the direction a party’s taking.
- Elif Batuman reflects on wearing a head scarf in modern Turkey—"as if I were duping people into being kind to me."
- Blow: White America is torn between two increasingly distant visions.
- Obama's speech on Muslims tries to counter the past two months' nearly 100 anti-Muslim hate crimes.
- Black Lives Matter activist files to run for mayor of Baltimore.
- Cam Newton is being set up as the polar opposite of Peyton Manning—and that tells us a lot about today's America.
- Report from last weekend's Super Bowl in China.
- Researchers test collar based on bighorn sheep to protect football players' necks.
- CDC says women who can have kids and don't use birth control shouldn't drink; women say they're not incubators.
- Dating websites are stuffed with bots full of flattery.
- Women who watch romantic comedies are more accepting of men acting like stalkers, study finds.
- Trump supporters are 11 times more likely to expect sex on a first date than Clinton supporters.
- Pentagon offers to freeze and store soldiers' eggs and sperm, hoping to retain young troops.
- American college students continue to graduate into fields—performing arts, psychology—that don't have jobs for them.
- In half of America, you can carry a concealed weapon without needing to prove you know how to shoot.
- In true crime stories, "the greater the narrative self-doubt, the higher the brow."
- Another botched execution: Georgia’s Brandon Astor Jones opens his eyes six minutes in.
- Texas maintains a database of death row inmates’ last words; most are "positive expressions."
- Finally: a search engine of Simpsons screengrabs.