March 28, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Suicide bomber kills 70 on Easter Sunday at Lahore amusement park, injuring 300 others.
- Why the US keeps killing ISIS's second-in-command: because there are so many of them.
- Between the CIA and the Pentagon, America funds both sides of a firefight in Syria.
- US cities lower murder rates by paying criminals not to commit gun crimes.
- Most solitary confinement prisoners share a cell, which makes them less prone to suicide but more likely to murder.
- Brooklyn mailman arrested for no reason by plainclothes cops, who summarily crash their unmarked car.
- Democrats been wrong on every policy issue—police brutality, the financial crisis—that matters to young people.
- Astra Taylor: Liberals need organizers, not activists.
- Cruz wins through "a mix of ruthless effort, ideological flexibility, and calculated kissing-up."
- Thrasher's longstanding editor Jake Phelps is nearly too hardcore in his embodiment of skate culture.
- Novelist, screenwriter, poet, food maven Jim Harrison dies at 78.
- Harrison in conversation with Robert Birnbaum.
- Beautiful typography of classic cars.
- In today's semifinal match, Tournament of Books veteran Jeff VanderMeer faces a difficult decision.
- Back by popular demand for a limited time, the official ToB16 T-shirt, designed by Knopf's Janet Hansen.
- Overwhelmed charity shop begs customers not to return used copies of Fifty Shades of Grey.
- Not only has the quinoa craze benefited farmers in Peru—it's even benefited quinoa consumers in the region who don't actually plant the crop.
- An obituary for Jesus, as commissioned by Vanity Fair.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda: When 3.5 million of our citizens—the people of Puerto Rico—face the consequences of financial collapse, we should act.
