May 25, 2016

• Obama aims to transfer a quarter of the remaining Guantánamo detainees to other countries by the end of his term.
• The world often forgets Nagasaki. Based on his itinerary, so did Obama.
• The media stopped covering racial justice, favoring presidential campaigns—because journalism is overwhelmingly white.
• Libertarians have a Trump-sized opportunity: They could respond with an experienced ticket, or they could nominate McAfee.
• GOP leaders consider changing nomination process, demoting powerful states, and possibly banning independents.
• Four hundred authors pen open letter expressing concern about Donald Trump. That should do the trick.
• "If the extremely wealthy...can destroy publications they want to silence, that's a far bigger threat to freedom of the press."
• Google wants to start replacing passwords with biometric logins and typing patterns—this year.
• The French have responded to their ballyhooed new law against the creep of work email with a collective shrug.
• Japan provided more than half of all financing for international coal projects since 2006.
• The life coach who trains life coaches says advice from others is nothing: Listening to yourself is everything.
• "Subaru cultivated its image as a car for lesbians—and did so at a time when few companies would embrace or even acknowledge their gay customers."
• An oral history of An Inconvenient Truth, the slideshow that wanted to save the world.
• Explaining chess would be like "explaining cigarettes to a robot," except chess is more addicting.
• Frost is "had," Angelou "rise," Dickinson "little": Poets visualized with the words they use most often.
• Vast majority of Americans have no idea what "gig economy" is supposed to mean.
• Never retire.