June 21, 2016

• Senators say no to strengthening background checks and preventing suspected terrorists from purchasing guns.
• On the gun vote: only 11 senators' votes were up for grabs.
• Gun control point and counterpoint: Leah Finnegan annotates an AR-15 owner’s apologia.
• Every time a bomb goes off somewhere, every time there’s a shooting somewhere, [gun] sales spike like crazy.
• On Brexit: EU provides legal bulwarks for Britain’s “protected foods,” like Stilton cheese, that come from only one place.
• The main political entity most likely to emerge from Brexit is "a standalone England."
• Trump's war chest trails Clinton's by more than $41 million, "the worst disadvantage of any major party nominee in recent history."
• Trump fires his campaign manager—who shouldn't be blamed for the candidate's plummeting poll numbers.
• In an example of the Sanders effect, Nebraska Democrats elect a progressive, pipeline-fighting chairwoman.
• Over half of 18- to 29-year-olds in America don't support capitalism—and no one should be surprised.
• Recovery from the housing crisis drives a generation to rent.
• Saudi women practice driving by visiting bumper car attractions at amusement parks.
• The idea for a body transplant is the kind of thinking that has experts around the world alarmed at how far China is pushing the ethical and practical limits of science.
• Protesters in Okinawa demand removal of US military after yet another murder of a local woman by an American.
• Here’s how a hacker could use our devices to take down New York City.
• Unabomber says "some creep" is writing letters to journalists under his name.
• Composer elegizes the Arctic from a floating piano at the edge of a melting glacier.
• Tribune Publishing's unbearable video about the “future of media” is not, in fact, a joke.
• Jack in the Box trademarks "brunchfast," but won't explain how it intends to use the invented word.
• A romp through the fonts of Blade Runner, which begins with the distinctly retro Goudy Old Style.
• Twisted Sister toiled for years before making it big with a song that hardly represented their oeuvre.