June 2, 2015

• India's "mytho-nationalist" worldview.
• How a University of Arizona professor precipitated media's transformed coverage of Caitlyn Jenner.
• Sort through The Counted: the people who've been killed by police in the US so far this year.
• China's strategic investments in infrastructure abroad exhibit a conservative tendency.
• A review of IS's new Russian magazine, which pales in comparison to its "slick" English counterpart.
• Malaysian court finds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, others—in absentia—guilty of war crimes.
• Error reports—like you can send after Office crashes—contain juicy info for hackers and the NSA.
• Growing up in Nigeria, cyber cafes were a taste of the future, and now mobile internet is killing them off.
• Case study in the fall of fast food: Subway loses at its own game as fresher competitors enter fray.
• A third of the global population of an endangered antelope has recently died due to illness.
• Gallup shows since 2001 Americans have become a lot more comfortable with polygamy and cloning.
• Christian music's decline has more to do with waning interest in Christianity than Spotify's profit suck.
• The Christianizing music scene turns "Pour Some Sugar on Me" into "Learn Some Deuteronomy."
• A line of poetry improbably remembered.
• "Reader, insists the poem, you and I make the choice to go on living with the knowledge of going on living."
• The Hardy Boys live on because capitalism figured out a way to minimize costs: ghostwriters.
• Women writing novels about women doesn't win literary awards.