July 18, 2012: Afternoon
- Bomb kills Syria's defense minister and other top officials.
- Inside the opening of the aptly named First Somali Bank.
- On the global trade in human corpses—terms like "harvesting," "buying," and "human sock puppets."
- Michele Bachmann releases document outlining how the Muslim Brotherhood has penetrated the U.S. government.
- Readers demand more "real girls" from Teen Vogue.
- Jonathan Franzen is the world's most annoying birder because he thinks the world's looking at him.
- The solar system in a single, scrollable web page.
- Hundred-year-old celebrity photographer talks about Tilda Swinton, Andy Warhol, and the rise of digital photography.
- Oliver Stone chooses seven favorite drug movies.
- Andy Griffith tells Shakespeare.
- Clint Dempsey is coming off the best-ever season of any American in European soccer, but the Texan remains hard to know.
- Being an American and writing about food can boil down to being part of someone else's salad.
- TMN's Sarah Hepola on being unable to stop listening to an Oasis song.
- Jessica Francis Kane analyzes a sentence that cuts to the heart of an Alice Munro story.