January 21, 2016
- Report finds Putin "probably" approved the poisoning of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinetko.
- "As he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service."
- Inside a Russian attempt to engineer unending daylight.
- Two scientists indicted for emailing confidential GlaxoSmithKline research to a pharma startup overseas.
- Anticipating the "pure chaos" of a GOP convention where multiple candidates are still vying for the nomination.
- "Merkel's decision...remains the correct one. But Merkel has failed to promptly impose order on the streams of refugees."
- After years of decline, air pollutions deaths are on the rise in the UK.
- There were more suicides in Northern Ireland for nearly two decades after the Troubles than during them.
- If you're white or Asian, you have a nearly 25% chance of becoming a millionaire; if you're Latino or black, 6%.
- Life as "mostly Bengali."
- "Evolutionary psychologists believe our preoccupation with the lives of others is a byproduct of a prehistoric brain."
- Expanded federal background checks leaves no one to process appeals from the rejected.
- Inside Kentucky's booming, unregulated private probation industry.
- How Rick Snyder's corporatization of Michigan state politics facilitated the Flint water crisis.
- Cleveland is trying to wriggle out of two police misconduct settlements by using personal bankruptcy laws.
- Tennis's trickle-down economics make the sport particularly ripe for corruption.
- When Prince asks you to DJ his party, you say yes. When he wants you to stop so he can watch Finding Nemo, well.