Impeachment day.
The House of Representatives begins drafting impeachment articles against President Trump. 1/26
A new Trump rule may lead to hundreds of thousands of people losing their food stamps. 2/26
Oddly enough, under Trump the US pays more to NATO and dedicates more troops to Europe. 3/26
Lisa Page says being insulted by the president isn’t something you get used to, like when he uses your name to simulate an orgasm. 4/26
Joe Biden says he would consider Kamala Harris for vice president. 5/26
One year ago, CNN didn’t even have Pete Buttigieg or Andrew Yang in its sights. 6/26
At present, 20 American ambassadorships remain unfilled. One third of jobs in overseas US embassies and consulates sit empty. 7/26
In a speech to law enforcement, Attorney General Barr says communities who protest police officers don’t deserve protection. 8/26
The best news photographs from the last year. 9/26
Hundreds of hours of archived home movies from East Germany's everyday lives—drinking, dancing, visiting an amusement park. 10/26
"Using machine learning, researchers can now predict how likely an individual is to be involved in a car accident by looking at the image of their home address on Google Street View." From Tom Whitwell’s “52 things I learned in 2019.” 11/26
Prior to Thanksgiving, Facebook gave employees a chatbot to deflect criticism from relatives and offer tech advice. 12/26
Bitcoin viewed 11 years later: it may not be a currency, but it is a great casino game. 13/26
A study of giving cash to the extreme poor finds that every dollar increases total economic activity in the local area by $2.60. 14/26
An emerging crisis among young PhD researchers: much higher anxiety levels than found in the general population. 15/26
This year's Turner Prize goes to all of the artists on the shortlist after they formed a collective so none of them would lose. 16/26
In the age of overtourism, an argument for the inauthentic. 17/26
Related/unrelated: German artist Evelyn Bracklow hand-paints old porcelain crockery with ants. 18/26
One byproduct of our addiction to the internet? "Valuing information based solely on volume." 19/26
In case you missed it: How to eat for free in New York City with an automated Instagram account. 20/26
"GIFANAISQATSI" randomly pairs slow-mo images from Giphy with a Philip Glass soundtrack. 21/26
Alex Ross catalogs the genius of German record label ECM, which counts Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, and Arvo Pärt among its artists. 22/26
Related: Ross’s early selections for his list of notable classical recordings from 2019. 23/26
When music magazines were great, they helped you appreciate a song or artist. But too often they were hacky and bland. 24/26
Join the Tournament of Books in 2020 as this year’s reader judge. 25/26
Pages from Emily Dickinson's personal "herbarium," or collection of dried plants. 26/26
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