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Your heavy-think read for the commute: Americans need to consider if our foreign policy is actually an insidious form of empire. 1/21

In the poorest countries as well as the richest, mental disorders are "the greatest thief of productive life." 2/21

See also: Burger King introduces a range of unhappy meals. 3/21

Nearly half of American college students at over 100 institutions say they’ve been “food insecure” in the past 30 days. 4/21

Seven racehorses from a Florida auction sold for $475,000 to Korean buyers. Within two years, all of them went to the same slaughterhouse. 5/21

Many Portuguese proverbs are about fish. A new book by Joana Avillez illustrates some of them. 6/21

"Venezuelans must stop being seen as a punchline for misleading arguments about the benefits of bitcoin." 7/21

Debunked viral videos show people trying to light wood beams on fire, alleging that Notre Dame's blaze was a criminal act. 8/21

USA Today and its newspapers collect records of thousands of police officers investigated for serious misconduct. 9/21

David Brooks: “Maybe racial injustice is at the core of everything.” 10/21

Photography has a history of racial bias on a technology level. Unfortunately, it’s still around. 11/21

Related/unrelated: Autochrome color photos from 1907 by Etheldreda Laing (1872–1960). 12/21

Examples show why Insecure is the rare show on TV to properly light black people's faces. 13/21

"For every potential drawback to Instagram, there are multiple positive gains for young people." Fashion in the age of IG. 14/21

How China spies on its Muslim minority: with an app. 15/21

How Democrats feel better about not impeaching Trump: by turning his attorney general into their all-purpose foil. 16/21

A guide to artists not to miss at this year's Frieze New York. 17/21

An antidote to US-dominated design conversation: Interviews with teams in India, Indonesia, Jordan, and more. 18/21

Singapore's Changi Airport now includes a forested indoor park complete with a seven-story waterfall. 19/21

A new study finds that all perching bird species—most of the world’s bird population—originated in Australia. 20/21

A poem for your weekend: “The city has sex with everything,” by Catherine Wagner.

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