May 24, 2016

• The GOP has a beef with the IRS, and now Congress is considering impeaching the agency head.
• "Of all the things that Congress could be truculent about, fighting an epidemic is the worst."
• Campaign finance reform that strips away recent rulings would still have to deal with entrenched disparities.
• Sanders's progressive movement could be bigger than his doomed presidential run—unless his campaign snuffs it out.
• Leaked transcripts stun Brazil, reveal Rousseff impeached by ministers hoping to save their own skin.
• Facebook denies political bias, but will change how Trending Topics are tracked.
• Algorithms used in sentencing incorrectly predict recidivism twice as often in black subjects who don't re-offend.
• "Police spend a large part of their time distributing crime to the sorts of people who seem likely to be criminals."
• To improve city lives, a study suggests hyper-focusing on individual blocks to promote change.
• South Asian heat wave melts roads in Gujarat.
• Left out of Obama's Vietnam headlines: news of activists jailed over a coast littered with poisoned fish.
• From the depths of the ocean to the reaches of space, Chinese scientists are going big.
• Lake Mead hits an all-time low—it's time Western states accept that adapting to water scarcity will require some creativity.
• In nature, aging doesn't follow one model.
• Bob Dylan turns 75 today, and you still don't know which album is your favorite—our quiz will help.
• Thanks to Hamilton and The Lion King, Broadway had another record-breaking season.
• Today's art market is out of control, and auctions are where emotions trump sound investing.
• Adele's new contract will be second only to Jay Z's in wealth.
• White supremacists crush on Taylor Swift. (She doesn't reciprocate.)
• A multimedia-rich, oral history of Run-DMC and Aerosmith's "Walk This Way."
• In order to compete with movies and video games, Lego toys have become more violent—it worked, by the way.
• See also: A common nomenclature for Lego families.
• Forty years of data on the American diet, visualized.