June 27, 2016

• Brexit leaders renege on promises.
• Fact-checking Boris Johnson's first post-Brexit article—he claims Scotland doesn't want another referendum.
• After poor Brexit showing, UK Labour Party wants to oust Jeremy Corbyn, who says he's not going anywhere.
• Post-financial crash, local governments outsourced emergency services to private companies, with horrifying results.
• The federal agency established to detect the next financial crisis is discomfortingly quiet.
• "Fully transparent" donations to state and national campaigns declined 47% between 2006 and 2014.
• Weapons sent by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to Syrian rebels were "systematically" stolen in Jordan and sold on the black market.
• Interactive report explores allegations of an American war crime in Afghanistan.
• Another day, another report of a shady Trump-connected business targeting poor people with bad investment advice.
• See also: Trump's golf courses have mostly been "bad investments."
• Hilton Als remembers street photographer Bill Cunningham, who died Saturday.
• Pentagon to repeal ban on transgender troops next month.
• After last year's highly publicized breakout from Clinton Correctional Facility, inmates say guards made conditions "significantly worse."
• Overview of San Francisco's inability to come up with any real plan to humanely deal with its homeless population.
• Curious Dutch quasi-bureaucrats called "Night Mayors" proselytize progressive thinking about nighttime policy.
• Extensive history of the booty call in pop culture.
• Former chef John Birdsall interviews Anthony Bourdain on the event of his 60th birthday.
• An oral history of Radiohead's chatbot.
• Blink-182's Tom DeLonge left the band to study extraterrestrial life.
• The expansion of the Panama Canal has been beset with corruption, broken promises, and the near-impossibility of maneuvering today's "neo-Panamax" ships.