March 22, 2016
- Terrorists kill 34 or more in attacks at the Brussels international airport and a city metro station.
- Eyewitness accounts from Belgium.
- Cameron knocks the UK Independence Party for immediately linking the attacks to immigration.
- Rebecca Solnit on the officer-involved shooting that symbolizes San Francisco’s gentrification.
- Raul Castro becomes latest leader of a repressive society to be hoodwinked by Obama into fielding media questions.
- New York millionaires say they should pay even higher taxes.
- Oregon collects $3.48 million in revenue from first month of taxed recreational marijuana sales.
- Seventy-six percent of people aged 18-35 in Hong Kong still live with their parents—almost twice the level of the US, UK, or France.
- China has its first-ever transgender labor discrimination case—"an invisible issue for the government."
- Group of 19 leading scientists warns that a perilous climate shift will occur within decades, not centuries.
- Letters from NPR listeners helped engineer shed guilt over not preventing the Challenger disaster.
- Every technology is assistive: interview with a woman destigmatizing disability.
- Tennis tournament CEO quits after saying women players should "get on their knees" to thank Federer and Nadal.
- Daughter pays tribute to her mother's waitress work.
- Daughters of coders don’t become coders, and other lessons from Facebook research on the heritability of profession.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, Jess Zimmerman chooses between The Turner House and Our Souls at Night.
- James Patterson and his team to release new line of "BookShots" for non-readers.
- House of Cards makes convincing argument that strong marriages needn't always depend on sexual fidelity.
- Graph theory, "pivot culture," and the organizational structures of startups and corporations.
- Photographs of brutalist buildings made from white Lego bricks.
- See also: “A nine-hour quest for meaning at the Mall of America.”