Let's soul.

President Trump issued an executive order to end his policy of separating families, but the government still has no plan for returning the children it has already taken. 1/18

The Guardian printed the names of 34,361 refugees who died trying to make the journey to Europe. 2/18

Traveling across the Sahara, lately “a vast frontier zone,” is basically now illegal. 3/18

Peace talks over South Sudan—to resolve the five-year civil war that killed tens of thousands—are not going well. 4/18

What the Rwandan genocide can teach us about today’s political moment. 5/18

The White House wants to merge the Department of Education with the Department of Labor—basically to eliminate the Education department. 6/18

After the US had its warmest May on record, meteorologists coordinated their outfits to raise awareness. 7/18

Some say Elon Musk's late-night tweet storms suggest a billionaire cracking up. Ex-employees say it's nothing new. 8/18

“Mesh governance” is a sort of non-hierarchical government system that may emerge for our new decentralized “networld.” 9/18

Your weekend think: The question isn't “Could AI have a soul?” It's “Could AI ever soul like we do?” 10/18

“By the way, it was not $3 million to shoot Hunter into the fucking sky,” says Depp. “It was $5 million.” A long, detailed, at times beguiling look into the current trials and financial struggles of Johnny Depp. 11/18

Remembering California's "extraordinary calm" original black widow killer, "The Trunk Murderess." 12/18

Psychologists find that audiobooks stir people more deeply than movies or television. 13/18

In case you were wondering where mathematical typography comes from. 14/18

On Craigslist, I wasn’t alone. I found a community craving the same thing I did: a connection. Something real. Before it shut down, Craigslist personals gave us an intimate look “at humanity in extremis.” 15/18

A new piece of software uses wifi signals to track humans' movements, breathing, and heartbeats through walls. 16/18

A brief history of the Speak & Spell, "one of the earliest examples of a full-fledged portable gaming machine." 17/18

See also: a history of modern capitalism from the perspective of a plastic straw. 18/18

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