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The US officially quits the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement, so maybe we’ll have a new arms race with Russia. 1/19

Trump lets it be known he doesn’t believe Mueller’s warnings about Russian election-hacking. 2/19

More than 110 US towns and cities can claim that a 2020 presidential candidate put down roots at one point. 3/19

Trump’s supporters, while demonstrating racial biases, say they’re tired of being called racists. 4/19

NBA referees show profitable biases: they favor home teams, teams losing during games, and teams losing in playoff series. 5/19

About 3% of billionaire philanthropy goes to climate change, compared to about 0.01% of the federal budget. 6/19

An uninhabited island in the South Pacific has about 18 tons of trash, accumulating several thousand pieces of plastic every day. 7/19

An overview of the Apollo Command Module's, er, waste management system, and an attempt to recreate the experience in real life. 8/19

The New Yorker magazine has polluted the world with tote bags. Let's be clear: they're terrible tote bags. 9/19

Playboy relaunches as an ad-free quarterly overseen by millennial feminists who believe in "consensual objectification." 10/19

When clothing brands charge extra for plus sizes, claiming additional costs, it's not only a bad look, it's bad business. 11/19

Nine graduate students talk about the difficulties and pleasures found in quitting their Ph.D. programs. 12/19

"I’ve learned to trust those first instincts." Six top architects revisit their first commissions. 13/19

I.M. Pei may have lived for over a century, but it matters more "that he sustained a modern vernacular for fifty years." 14/19

Examples of work from "the trailblazer generation" of black architects in Detroit. 15/19

Record-breaking heat waves across Europe signal a need for design changes to withstand the climate crisis. 16/19

There is a place for steel spikes and Baccarat crystal in contemporary architecture, says a critic, just not in the rebuilding of Notre-Dame. 17/19

Watch this: Researchers in China made an autonomous bicycle using a “neuromorphic” chip, modeled after the human brain. 18/19

“You can’t unknow information.” An essay on the anxiety of knowing how to use location-sharing apps. 19/19

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