June 28, 2012: Afternoon
- Chief Justice Roberts votes to uphold health-care reform, arguing the “individual mandate” is constitutional.
- Majority of Americans cannot name the Supreme Court's chief justice.
- Examples of countries that have implemented near-universal health care.
- Interactive guide to the Affordable Care Act ruling's key portions.
- Coloradoans fleeing wildfires see hell in the rearview mirror.
- Plano, Texas, named second most vain city in the U.S.
- The Minitel, France's precursor to the internet, to be shut down; 2,500 dairy farmers to call for the inseminator by other means.
- Brief history of the remote control.
- Essay about the effect of a taxi cab on your brain when you're a New York cyclist.
- See also: How not to kill a cyclist.
- Ethics of superhero journalists from Clark Kent to Peter Parker.
- List of the 25 best movies of 2012.
- Concept credited to Nora Ephron: The One-Time-Only Book Club.
- Thursday fiction: Wonderful 79-word story by Jess Walter.
- John Jeremiah Sullivan on Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!