July 18, 2016

• Republicans roll into Cleveland for the RNC, with Monday's theme focused on law and order.
• Alleged gunman who killed three Baton Rouge police officers yesterday identified as a former marine.
• Twenty-six cops have been killed so far in 2016, up 44% from 2015.
• FWIW: Hate-ridden Orlando killer was likely a long-term steroid user.
• Why France continues to be attacked: For being the standard bearer of western secular liberalism.
• With Turkey's coup contained, Erdoğan's purge begins.
• New report says Russia operated a state-sponsored doping program at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
• Reformers could save millions of lives if people would just stop calling road deaths “accidents.”
• Trump's VP choice Mike Pence isn't well known to voters, but public health officials know his anti-science record.
• Confessional from the BuzzFeed reporter who goaded Trump into taking the presidency seriously.
• See also: Jane Mayer's "Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All."
• Half of Republicans say Mexican immigrants have had a positive impact on the country.
• Republican platform goes into the weeds on public lands reform, resulting in a plan to end federal parks.
• Filipino farmers weren’t just denied aid during this spring's drought—the government killed them for asking for it.
• Marxists can be separated into those who play—theoretically—with Lego and those who play with Duplos.
• If you read about "psychoticism" being linked to liberals or conservatives, prepare to enter a social-science war.
• A physiological theory of mental illness.
• A woman's hunger is always an overreach, because it is not supposed to exist.
• After months of Swift sniping, Kim posts video of singer seemingly assenting to Kanye’s “Famous” verse.
• Popular social media star in Pakistan dead in family honor killing.
• Your Monday commuting read: "The American Who Accidentally Became a Chinese Movie Star."