March 24, 2016
- US intelligence officials grumble over Belgium's handling of its worsening Islamic militant threat.
- Chart of victims of terrorist attacks In western Europe since 1970.
- American injured in Brussels airport also survived the Boston marathon attack.
- Tyler Cowen's favorite Belgian things.
- South Sudan’s president, accused by the UN of war crimes, has to deny endorsing Donald Trump.
- Kremlin bans Kolejka, a Polish board game based on life under communism.
- Waste management, of all things, brings on a Lebanese political movement of unified indignation.
- Veep producer responds to Australian prime minister embracing "continuity and change."
- After spending $17 million on a new flag and referendum, New Zealand votes to keep the old one.
- See also: A history of "John" in America, now that naming's gotten weird.
- Notes on the pitch meeting that Nike blew with Steph Curry.
- RuPaul’s queer/punk/Buddhist ideology of opposition.
- North Carolina Republicans require transgender people to only use bathrooms that match their birth genders.
- Carolina law also preempts all future LGBT accommodations by the state.
- Fracking was supposed to lessen global warming; that plan has gone terribly awry.
- Related: Rockefellers quit investing in fossil fuels and call Exxon—descendant of Standard Oil—“morally reprehensible” on climate.
- Biologists just realized prairie dogs love eating baby squirrels.
- In the Tournament of Book's last quarterfinal, A Spool of Blue Thread meets The Sellout.
- Undertold story of woman who shaped early Wicca and cut a cool figure advocating for freedom, religious and otherwise.
- Group drumming provided significant benefits for a group of people who had sought help for mental-health issues.
- Atlanta traffic reporter sneaks in tributes to A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg.