July 12, 2016
- With Cameron out of the way, Theresa May may be the UK's prime minister by midweek.
- Real output per person in central London is nearly four times the average in the European Union.
- Thanks to Brexit and the pound's slide, Serena Williams missed out on $382,200.
- See also: Short version of the “Tony Blair goes to Iraq” report.
- For all the fuss about Clinton, her “top secret” emails were nothing interesting.
- Pokemon Go is a government surveillance dream.
- Sanders got affordable tuition on the Dems' platform by waiting to endorse Clinton.
- Popular “Bernie doesn’t care about black people” stories undermined by sparse reportage.
- The left's fetish for self-care lends itself easily to exploitation.
- Gingrich is a perfect veep candidate for Trump, seeing how he long ago replaced ideology with populism.
- Blame the Big Four accounting firms for enabling “breathtaking” avoidance of corporate taxes.
- How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes with ex-CIA spooks—and got caught.
- Long-term yields on government bonds hit all-time lows—is bank profitability next?
- Personal essay about moving from New York to Dallas.
- Photograph from Baton Rouge testifies to the power of peaceful protest.
- Apparently the custom font industry is booming.
- Revisiting the current music-rights regime is too problematic to ignore and too thorny to tackle.
- Iran announces it's opening the world's largest bookstore.
- Spicy food cures muscle cramps.
- Tim Duncan retires after a career of unflappable, understated brilliance.
- As Tim Duncan retires from the Spurs, it's good to remember he was once ejected from a game for laughing.
- Highlights of the Onion's Duncan love.