March 31, 2016
- Terrifying Ebola update: Nearly half of survivors may go blind—possibly incubating the virus in their eyes.
- Head of Libyan unity government sails into Tripoli in brave, possibly doomed gesture.
- Obama hosts his fourth and final nuclear summit; Putin boycotts.
- We have only a year or so to stop investing in new fossil-fuel power stations.
- State Department tells American tourists: Don’t hang with foreign hotties unless you’d hang with them here.
- Now that we’re trading with Cuba, Angela Davis fears Assata Shakur will become a bartering chip.
- To combat smog, Mexico City orders all cars off the road for one day a week.
- French air-traffic controllers go on strike.
- Japan-bound plane returned to Hawaii because violent passenger wanted to do yoga instead of sit in his seat.
- Amid terrorist attacks and a mounting migrant crisis, Europe’s far-right parties gain momentum.
- Trump says if abortion were illegal, women who undergo one should get “some form of punishment.”
- The Trump campaign has become an ongoing test of how few things people want to fact-check.
- Among things that Barney Frank is not impressed by: Sanders’s years in the Senate.
- Wall Street’s PR machine favors the abstract mode.
- FBI moves rapidly to generalize the encryption-cracking technique used to hack San Bernardino attacker’s phone.
- Terrorist who built a bomb to blow up a mosque in California gets 90 days in jail.
- Arizona police shoot a man as he pleads for his life.
- "Is This the End of the Era of the Important, Inappropriate Literary Man?"
- Last day in this year's Tournament of Books sees The Sellout meet The Turner House.
- And now we relax: with Shinichi Maruyama's photographs of water caught in mid-flight.