June 17, 2014
- While you weren't paying attention: Four Russians toilet-paper the US embassy in Moscow.
- Primer on Russia's proxy war in Ukraine.
- Somali-linked Islamist militants kill at least 15 in second night of attacks on Kenya's coast.
- Austin is America's 10th-most segregated metro area and the only fast-growing US city losing African-Americans.
- Half a century after the Voting Rights Act was signed, Native Americans still fight for basic voting rights.
- Airbnb's unseen impact on San Francisco's housing crisis: reducing supply, skirting laws.
- See also: Mat Honan's nightmarish vision for the future of internet-connected homes.
- Starbucks partners with Arizona State University to provide baristas with full rides for junior and senior years.
- Astronauts can now drink good, hot coffee in space.
- Will Shortz gets a 23-year-old assistant and now the New York Times crossword includes clues like "State of being awesome, in modern slang."
- With Iraq on the brink of civil war, Tony Blair's new call to arms is "a bit bizarre ... and more than a bit self-serving."
- Jill Lepore on how Americans have perverted the concept of disruption.
- American soccer players hampered by a sense of fair play against teams that cheat.
- New Christoph Niemann slideshow finds World Cup hairdos everywhere.
- Canadian TV psychic claims Hitler's hanging out with great-granny in the spirit world.
- Prior to Hitler, people cited Judas Iscariot and Herod the Great as the embodiments of evil.
- Missing from recent negotiations for a unity government between Hamas and Fatah: women.
- How to live-tweet death.