May 23, 2014

• Weeks after slaughtering hundreds and kidnapping more than 300 girls, Boko Haram receives UN sanctions.
• Turkish women launch online campaign to shame men for hogging space on public transportation.
• Violent, angry grandmothers defend Ukraine's pro-Russia breakaway Donestk People's Republic.
• US military has troops on the ground, engaged in active military operations, in 13 African countries.
• For decades, the United States government obsessively fought to identify and fire gays in government jobs.
• Married woman realizes she's gay while writing scenes for Orange is the New Black.
• Shared custody becoming the norm: from 1988 to 2008, percentage of mothers awarded sole custody dropped from 80% to 42%.
• Matt Haughey explains life as an internet property master: Live by the Google sword, die by the Google sword
• TIME magazine and Sports Illustrated now sell ads on their covers.
• America's current hiring process—résumés, cover letters—all but encourages employers to give in to their racial biases.
• Mark Cuban says he fears black kids in hoodies, though he fears them less than bald white guys with face tattoos.
• Memorial Day is more difficult to ignore when a commemorative American flag, honoring your father, turns up in your lap.
• Nadal on confidence.
• Michael Pollan says North Carolina bbq is meat of the gods, tying back to ancient Greece and rabbis of the Old Testament.
• Mastering the art of French eating requires visiting places—not Paris—where food doesn't come from freezers.
• The world contains little Scientology hip-hop, but much is celebrated when new examples are found.
• Photographs of businesses becoming fucking fro-yo places.