January 28, 2016
- Officials from the WHO say the Zika virus is “spreading explosively” in the Americas.
- Iran's Hassan Rouhani makes his first official visit to France and gets straight to business, post-sanctions.
- See also: Normalizing relations with Iran is far from naive—it's a proven tactic for peace.
- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publishes Holocaust-denying video.
- Traditional movie producers seethe after Amazon floods Sundance market with lavish offers.
- Designers outraged by recent federal decision to forego a clearer font on highway signs.
- Northern California residents can now have gas delivered to their parked cars.
- Mexico's debate on marijuana legalization is the sort of adult discussion other countries can learn from.
- Iceland's top political party has no leaders, only pirates.
- Charismatic, wealthy, and egomaniacal: Trump is America's Berlusconi.
- Sanders and Republicans define socialism differently—and Republicans have the dictionary on their side.
- Riveting interview with African-American revolutionary who escaped to Cuba, then watched socialism unfold.
- Chinese firm purchases photo service, gaining rights to classic photographs of the 1989 student uprising in Tiananmen Square.
- Wounded Warrior Project slammed by employees and outsiders for spending 40% of donations on overhead.
- Deep dive into the data that government officials received—and misused, and ignored—on Flint’s water.
- Horse skulls often found under buildings across Northern Europe, deliberately placed as “foundation deposits.”
- Mathematical model gives the probability of success for different conspiracies.
- Poll shows a 10-point drop for blacks and 35-point drop for whites on the state of race relations between 2008 and 2015.
- During loss to Djokovic, Roger Federer plays a point that makes a fan stand up in his wheelchair.
- New York Times tennis reporter tells story of Deep Throat who taught him about rampant match-fixing.
- Filmmaker's protest movie requires British censors to watch paint dry for 10 hours straight.