It’s work porn.

South Africa's corruption-riddled African National Congress (ANC) returns to office after winning parliamentary election once again. 1/16

Alabama postpones a vote on what would be the country's most restrictive abortion ban. 2/16

“It’s work porn. It’s exhilarating work porn.” A study of the subtly professional media rollout of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new baby. 3/16

Your weekend white paper: "Immigrant groups are more likely to assimilate when a new out-group appears that ranks below them in the social hierarchy." 4/16

Being seen with or simply near a gang member can be enough to be added to CalGang, a controversial California database filled with errors. 5/16

When Google thinks your phone number is the number for customer support at Facebook, you get a lot of calls. 6/16

Restaurant employees say Google Duplex—used for making reservations—is convincingly human and extremely polite. 7/16

China has a troubled history of use brain surgery for drug addiction. Now DBS—deep brain stimulation—is being used on opioid addicts. 8/16

The new race to the moon isn’t among superpowers, but businesses who want to break altogether new ground. 9/16

Read more stories like this in our editors' longreads picks. 10/16

Related/unrelated: In case you've been waiting for that big Adam Gopnik take-down. 11/16

Podcasts intensify our saturation while pretending to relieve it. Maybe loneliness is better. 12/16

The medieval studies field struggles in the 21st century with the far-right's “weaponization” of the Middle Ages. 13/16

Jessa Crispin: Contemporary feminists misunderstand great women artists by domesticating them. 14/16

In Lithuania, to get lost while picking mushrooms is a common enough occurrence to have its own word: nugrybauti. 15/16

Pretty gorgeous: “Dune Studies” from photographer John Francis Peters.

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