July 20, 2016

• Plagiarism blamed on Melania Trump herself, plus a ballet dancing ghostwriter who was an English major.
• It's hard to call any political speech plagiarized—they’re all the same anyway.
• For Trump to win the general election, it'll require "the most absent-minded political revolution in American history."
• Dan Aykroyd compares online haters of Ghostbusters' Leslie Jones to Trump supporters.
• RNC volunteers police female journalists for wearing sleeveless tops.
• The demographic most irritated by "vocal fry" in young women's speech is older women.
• Clips of Kourtney Kardashian's vocal fry.
• Clinton backs off support for charter schools as Democrats refine message on education.
• Huge Republican donor is a Hindu man who likes Trump because of his views on Muslim-profiling.
• Former Yale employee who smashed a racist window accepts his old job back.
• My father joined the police force with the same spirit with which he joined the Black Panthers.
• Work requirements lead to biggest drop in SNAP enrollment in a decade.
• UK to relinquish its upcoming six-month presidency of the Council of the EU.
• Awkward press conference while Boris Johnson is grilled over Brexit lies, previous insults of world leaders.
• The future of economics depends on leaving behind some core assumptions about decisions made in isolation.
• Poor countries suffering from climate change may be tempted to launch rogue geoengineering projects.
• Ode to the motorcycle taxi: Africa's 21st-century answer to the horse.
• Photographs of legs in New York City.
• Breaking into New York's high-end prostitution scene—as a customer—can require exhaustive background checks.
• All is vanity: Twitter opens "verified account" process to the world.
• FBI spied on Colorado anti-fracking demonstrators.
• The legends are true: Angkor Wat sits on top of what used to be the world’s biggest city.
• To call the library the Netflix of books is both completely ridiculous and completely true.