Mayday, mayday—

In Venezuela, anti-government demonstrators clash with forces loyal to the president. 1/18

France deploys a massive police presence, bracing for a repeat of last year's May 1 violence. 2/18

Twenty-seven years ago, L.A. burned after four cops were acquitted for the savage beating of Rodney King. But was it a “riot,” an “uprising” or “civil unrest”? 3/18

If the US treated its domestic terrorism problem like attacks from ISIS, the response would be much greater than mere negligence. 4/18

Some Republicans acknowledge that Trump takes a political risk by continuing to stand by his Charlottesville comments. 5/18

“We don’t want to become the next West Virginia.” Los Angeles launches its own "Green New Deal." 6/18

So-called biodegradable bags can still carry five pounds of groceries after three years of deterioration. 7/18

Dunkin' goes through one billion cups a year. “It nags at my soul,” says its Chief Operating Officer. (Starbucks goes through about six billion.) 8/18

What we now know from a large-scale human clinical trial: “The immune system’s inflammatory response is killing people by degrees” 9/18

Suicide rates spiked in the month after the release of 13 Reasons Why among boys aged 10 to 17. 10/18

Denmark has the world's happiest people. For its loneliest citizens, there's a 20-year-old organization that brings them together. 11/18

Captain Grace Hopper, one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, explains a nanosecond. 12/18

RIP Gene Wolfe, the science fiction writer who also "helped devise the cooking process for Pringles, the stackable chip." 13/18

For reasons of national identity, a rice shortage, and more, the origins of Pad Thai were basically a government project. 14/18

Novelist Pitchaya Sudbanthad on why Pad Thai rests squarely in the center of all things Thai. 15/18

A new documentary about Muhammad Ali, done entirely in his own words, is the legendary boxer's "eulogy to himself." 16/18

Photographer Nydia Blas discusses her use of a Black feminine lens. "I think it’s time to make a new narrative." 17/18

The bouba/kiki effect explains why most individuals agree that one shape is named Bouba, the other’s called Kiki. 18/18

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