Look! The Rubicon!
Trump is considering using funds set aside for disaster relief projects in Puerto Rico, California, and Texas to pay for his border wall. 1/17
“Siphoning funding from real disasters to pay for a crisis manufactured by the president is wholly unacceptable and the American people won’t fall for it.” 2/17
Trump’s shutdown now ties the longest in history. Day by day accounts of people affected, from FDA food inspectors to anyone with Section 8 housing. 3/17
Some federal workers have turned to crowdfunding to pay their bills. 4/17
Populism contains two primary claims: A country’s ‘true people’ are locked into conflict with outsiders, including establishment elites; nothing should constrain the will of the true people. A lucid report sets out to define populism from a global perspective and identify some of its key trends since 1990. 5/17
A comedy writer recounts meeting some of the bright lights of Saudi Arabia's young creative types—who've since disappeared. 6/17
A fascinating account of how Russia came to possess the nerve agents used in recent poisonings around London. 7/17
Your weekly white paper: toward a hydrodynamic theory of polarized crowds (think people lining up to run a marathon). 8/17
Nine new islands will be constructed south of Copenhagen—Scandinavia's largest land reclamation project. 9/17
A short film: In the northernmost town in the world, it’s illegal to be buried seeing how bodies never decompose. 10/17
Why do mountains make you dumber? Scientists aren't sure, but “attentional dysfunction” at high altitudes is real. 11/17
A former fit model looks back on forty or so years of physical maintenance. 12/17
When general suspicion of female ambition meets toxic stereotypes about black girls: how R. Kelly has avoided justice thus far. 13/17
Alyssa Milano takes a very persuasive stand for women suffering in our criminal-justice system. 14/17
Reporters turn back the clock on a photo taken by friends just before a gunman began a deadly rampage in their favorite bar. 15/17
A round-up of thoughtful reporting from around the globe on free speech, censorship, and human rights on Facebook. 16/17
"Glitter is made from glitter." The New York Times offers an oddly satisfying lesson on how glitter is manufactured. 17/17
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