July 15, 2016

• Bastille Day attack in Nice leaves France reeling, with at least 80 dead after truck drives through crowd.
• First-person account from local journalist on the scene.
• Project to make fun of ISIS takes laughter seriously.
• Your Friday white paper: Rich people favor military rule more than poor people do, and the ratio is increasing.
• Barack Obama just became the first sitting president to publish a scholarly article.
• Gingrich wants to test every Muslim in America for extremism.
• Republicans meet in secret to try to forestall convention chaos, mostly without success.
• GOP senators skip Cleveland to mow the lawn and go fly-fishing.
• Convention panel mostly kills attempts to deny Trump the nomination.
• Harvard study concludes that the primaries' "horse race coverage" boosted Trump.
• See also: Politico Playbook set the vacuous tone for a new “insider” attitude towards political journalism; good riddance.
• Boris Johnson booed during his first public appearance as UK's foreign secretary
• New Prime Minister May immediately axes department for energy and climate change.
• The future of no-drilling dental treatment has been here for a century, but only now available in the US.
• Since Sandra Bland, 811 people have died in jail cells, one third in the first three days of incarceration.
• Chicago police investigation concludes that bad cops are rarely, if ever, punished.
• Starbucks customers say their names are "Black Lives Matter" so it's shouted by baristas.
• Young woman reveals her tattoos to her religious, ink-hating parents via video with choir.
• Weekend read: "The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close."
• VR could become the harder drugs to classic computer gaming's marijuana.
• Round-up of good photographers currently thru-hiking in America.