June 11, 2014

• To stock cheap shrimp at Walmart and Costco, Asian "ghost ships" use slave labor.
• Why Cantor lost his primary to the Tea Party: Maybe immigration, likely his DC insider status, possibly Obama.
• There have been at least 74 school shootings in the US since Sandy Hook.
• You can now buy a bulletproof blanket—made of the same material soldiers wear into battle—for your child.
• Related:​ Gun-toting Democrats struggle to find their place in a polarized debate.
• As with all the other scenarios in which I'm the good guy with the gun, I can never be sure.
• Australia’s far-right, climate change-denying PM seeks alliances with similarly anti-climate science countries, like Canada.
• In London, as thousands of London cabbies prepare to go on strike against Uber, the app adds them to its services.
• Secret lives of Uber drivers.
• The departure of the University of Texas football coach created a ripple effect that reached 103 other football coaches.
• For every wallet he sells, an entrepreneur in Texas donates a can of pepper spray to a woman in India.
• I decided to spend a month on my feet: 30 days never being a couch potato, an office slug, a sitting duck.
• A guide to Chicago fried chicken chain Harold's Chicken Shack in hip-hop.
• Jen Doll on the Smoky Mountains' fireflies.
• Also by Jen Doll: A defense of Y.A. literature and its readers.
• On typos: "The obsession with doing things right leads to the belief that perfection is enough - that perfection is valid in itself."
• Susan Orlean annotates her classic piece “The American Man, Age 10.”
• A history of mansplaining in art.