How can you consciously contemplate?

The third Democratic presidential primary debate's winners and losers, according to the New York Times opinion desk. 1/16

The US government's budget deficit has broken the $1 trillion mark for the first time in seven years. 2/16

California passes a bill banning for-profit prisons and immigration detention facilities in the state. 3/16

US voters of color may be further disenfranchised by the closing of more than 1,000 polling places suspected of racial discrimination. 4/16

The "slow-motion disaster" of flooding along the Missouri, Mississippi, and Arkansas Rivers in the first half of 2019. 5/16

Background checks aren't especially effective in reducing gun deaths. Gun licensing, on the other hand, actually works. 6/16

Social media—and society at large—would probably be better without likes, but users don't want to give up the engagement. 7/16

Homicide experts estimate there are between 2,000 and 4,000 active serial killers in the US. 8/16

"If a piece of clothing costs you $19.99, that means the person who made it was paid 19 cents." 9/16

Comparing school districts 20 years ago and today to find which have become more diverse, and which remain deeply segregated. 10/16

"Four or five times a year, you find yourself in a place where people understand what you're going through and you're not so much the minority." On disabled athletes and the desire to compete, rather than be a figure in an against-all-odds tale. 11/16

In a clip from a 1985 short by Richard Linklater, a young Daniel Johnston, who died this week at age 58, briefly talks about his new album, Hi, How Are You. 12/16

Singer Eddie Money—known for "Two Tickets to Paradise"—has died at age 70. 13/16

Investigating whether David Bowie really did—as he claimed—intentionally set fire to his Glass Spider stage prop in 1987. 14/16

A trailer for Tate Britain's new Blake exhibition digitally animates his paintings on the London streets he frequented. 15/16

Photos of people taking photos at national parks, by Brittney Denham. 16/16

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