July 21, 2016

• American airstrike in Syria kills scores of civilians mistaken for ISIS troops.
• The Philippines sees wave of extrajudicial killings—but addicted victims elicit little sympathy.
• Erdogan uses coup as excuse to clean up civil service, with a travel ban for academics thrown in for good measure.
• Cruz's onstage snub of Trump provides Clinton with a concise message.
• Whether or not Lucifer inhabits the Clinton corpus, the GOP is behaving like a small church.
• Online porn streaming in Cleveland shot up by 184% this week; popular search terms: "teen, cuckold, granny."
• Trump offered a Faustian vice presidency to Kasich, but he wouldn’t take it.
• Car dealerships allow haggling—uniquely in American retail—because it helps them set their prices.
• Japan will stop producing VCRs by the end of the month.
• Cartoon bear created to promote tourism in an overlooked part of Japan becomes a billion-dollar phenomenon.
• Brief history of the Italian New Jersey Accent.
• Racial conflict and terrorism tend to reinforce the conservative view that human nature is something that needs to be restrained.
• Miami police shoot black healthcare worker after confusion over mental health patient.
• Claims that police display no racial bias during shootings after traffic stops forget that races aren’t stopped equally.
• Affirmative action doesn’t discriminate against Asian-Americans.
• Report on the loneliness of being black in today's San Francisco.
• Letterboxing—a sort of Victorian geocaching—is ancestor to Pokémon Go’s viral love of exploration.
• Scavenging a Napoleonic battlefield for the treasures of dead men—weapons, clothes, teeth—was once brisk business.
• In response to food waste concerns, Wal-Mart orders test run of cosmetically-challenged apples.
• How to get second-degree burns from making margaritas in the sun.