July 28, 2016

• Obama nearly steals Clinton's thunder at the DNC, and Joe Biden is ever his Biden-y self.
• Hillary Clinton’s husband wore a fetching pantsuit at the DNC.
• Trump encourages Russia to hack Clinton's emails, and contemplates endorsing its seizure of Crimea.
• Later, Trump says he was being sarcastic about encouraging hackers.
• Trump looks to hire foreign workers for his resort, even though local residents want the jobs.
• I’m not too upset that Trump has been labelled an agent of the Kremlin. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
• Obamacare proves to be a financial wash for some insurers, who are dropping out of the program.
• Solitary confinement by another name—“separation”—has thrived in Afghanistan under Obama.
• We must all find the empathy to understand that prolonged solitary confinement violates Jewish law, international law, and the US Constitution.
• Homicides spiked in 29 major American cities in the first half of 2016.
• Only 10 of 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime.
• Short profiles of the 300 people killed in terrorist attacks around the world in March 2016.
• Profile of the first-ever refugee Olympics team.
• Republicans shut down the DHS office studying veterans for signs of extremism—which maybe could’ve prevented attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
• Lakota Chief and musician David Bald Eagle dies at 97.
• Just 2,000 of America’s 80,000 dams produce energy; if more did, hydro power could grow by 50% by 2050.
• Climate change makes dramatic impact on national parks, particularly those on the water.
• The "world's first autonomous suitcase" follows its owner around an airport.
• New literary magazine CuratedAI features poems and prose from different artificial intelligence programs.
• Mitch Hurwitz teases that he has a re-edited, unreleased version of Arrested Development’s fourth season.
• Inside scoop on Baz Luhrmann's troubled $120 million series for Netflix.