July 27, 2016

• Five takeaways from the night that Hillary became the first female major-party nominee in US history.
• Confirming the FLOTUS's speech: Historians have long acknowledged the role of slaves in building the White House.
• The joke that Sarah Silverman didn't use at the DNC: "This past year I’ve been with the possibly agnostic Jew."
• Report from the Republicans’ corruption-themed DNC party.
• White supremacists—who prefer the term "the alt-right”—are infatuated with Trump.
• Trump’s complete inability to build in Russia points to his likely independence from Putin.
• Just because Trump loves Putin doesn’t mean he's Putin’s stooge.
• Spy agencies think the Russian Army was behind the DNC hack.
• "Avowed foe of Clinton," Julian Assange timed the hacked emails' release for maximum damage.
• If Clinton loses in November due to her support for the TPP, it will be hard to argue she was in the right.
• The failure to close Guantánamo doesn’t lie squarely with Obama, but his inactions and missteps haven't helped.
• Protesters rage against Zimbabwe vice-president's penchant for spending long terms in $1,000-a-night hotel rooms.
• Report details “arbitrary” jailings, torture, and disappearances in Russia-controlled Eastern Ukraine.
• Taser looks to cash in on police shootings of black people by becoming the dominant body-cam supplier.
• The recent rise in Korean food's popularity is the result of a concerted effort by the South Korean government.
• Dutch men and Latvian women are taller than all other nationalities.
• My life is a nightmare: My husband is more stylish than me. But that's okay.
• Pictures of strange attempts at making nature more comfortable.
• Youree Dell Harris, actress who played quasi-Jamaican infomercial psychic Miss Cleo, dies at 53.
• See also: Harris’s 2006 coming-out interview in the Advocate.
• Your random Wednesday fact: Jewish women were an integral part of early Indian cinema, especially the silent era.