January 26, 2016
- In dramatic reversal, grand jury indicts creators of Planned Parenthood sting videos.
- Why Republicans are backing Trump over Cruz.
- The biggest problem with Cruz isn't his hypocrisy—it's his all-out attack on mainstream Republican voters.
- Cruz at 18: "I’d like to take over the world. World domination, rich, powerful, you know, just rule everything, that kind of stuff."
- Images of Trump pair nicely with quotes from The Simpsons' Mr. Burns.
- The Republican Establishment died in 1988, and "nothing remotely coherent" has replaced it: a brief history.
- Lawyer for Walter Scott endorses Sanders ahead of pivotal South Carolina primary.
- Trevor Noah's Daily Show is irrelevant in this election—puzzled laughter instead of righteously funny outrage.
- Obama pens op-ed promising to keep juveniles out of solitary confinement.
- Detroit features a higher incidence of lead-poisoned children than in Flint.
- Vacation-home joy and blues in Michigan.
- Business travel grows at 6.5% per year—almost twice the rate of global economic growth and almost as fast as information services.
- Rapper B.o.B. tries to convince the world the Earth is flat.
- Airbnb shuts down listing for homemade Brooklyn igloo, citing lack of "occupancy standards."
- The early 20th century's "perfect woman" was a 210-pound weightlifter.
- Explorer attempting a first-ever solo, unassisted trek across Antarctica dies from exhaustion and dehydration.
- Parenting advice from a stay-at-home dad who completed 50 Ironman-distance triathlons in 50 states in 50 days.
- Heavy metal is dead; long live heavy metal.
- Rumsfeld makes an app for a card game he learned indirectly from Churchill.
- Serious Eats' Food Lab recreates and improves the Egg McMuffin for home cooks.