History is punk

The Sudanese army says it has recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum after nearly two years of fighting. / BBC News

An explainer for how Germany's "fiscal flip" this week stunned Europe's diplomats. / Politico

Unrelated: Photographs from Berlin's feminist noise-punk scene. / VICE

London's Heathrow Airport will restore some flights after being completely shut down. / CNN

Yaroslav Trofimov: Lessons from the 20th century offer a range of possible outcomes for Ukraine. / The Wall Street Journal [+]

Sally Rooney explains the pleasures of watching—but not playing—billiards. / The New York Review

The owner of Carrie Bradshaw's house in Sex and the City implores fans to leave him alone. / The Cut

American women between 19 and 30 now consume more cannabis than men. / The Face

See also: A round-up of odd Canadian liquors. / Nuvo Magazine

A 115-year-old Belgian religion called Antoinism is said to be dying out, partly from refusing to explain itself. / The Dial

Before the discovery of gravity or magnetism, "angels were one way of accounting for the movement of physical entities." / Aeon

"There have been times I have dug for complete strangers, and other times for close family." What it's like to dig graves. / The Spinoff

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