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The House Judiciary Committee launches a sweeping investigation into whether Trump and his team have engaged in obstruction of justice, corruption, and abuse of power. 1/20

FYI: The next several months will be a doozy. 2/20

McConnell says there are enough disapproving votes in the Senate to block Trump’s national emergency declaration. 3/20

France’s Macron publishes an op-ed in a range of newspapers calling for a European Renaissance. 4/20

Faced with major crises in the world, citizens so often ask, “Where is Europe? What is Europe doing?” To them it has become a soulless market. 5/20

Worth noting: France's "yellow vest" protests remain largely rural and white. Does that explain why the government's been more responsive? 6/20

A good podcast profile of Sadie Alexander, the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics. 7/20

Economists don't know why the amount of $100 bills in circulation is surging. 8/20

To have a lot of optimists taking risks—that’s what makes for economic progress, so I call that the engine of capitalism, really, that sort of optimism. Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, psychologist and economist, on how random variability affects our decision-making. 9/20

A nice map: To remind you that North America is a continent. 10/20

Big data is not the new oil—because the biggest data repositories (Facebook, Google) don’t want it to be. 11/20

The data suggest that embracing misery can make you happier, while demanding happiness may lead to misery. 12/20

Driverless cars are found to be less accurate at detecting pedestrians with darker skin tones. 13/20

The world’s top-ranked bridge player is suspended for doping with synthetic testosterone and a female fertility drug. 14/20

The fashion industry churned out 100 billion pieces of clothing in 2015. Earth currently supports about 7 billion people. 15/20

A new study shows that for successful artists, making friends is more important than producing novel art. 16/20

John Steinbeck charmingly asks Marilyn Monroe for her autograph. 17/20

Watch or read Patricia Lockwood’s wonderful “The Communal Mind,” about internet humor, Michael Jordan’s tears, and the collapse of context. 18/20

Unrelated: Pictures of older people doing stuff in parks. 19/20

Interview with a fake sex doctor who conned the media into publicizing his “research” about butt-fisting and beastiality. 20/20

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