A New York Times reporter tracked the payments made (and iPhone apps used) on a migrant’s journey from El Salvador to the United States. 1/21 Photographs of items taken from migrants crossing the US border with Mexico. 2/21 Merkel saves her government with an immigration deal, compromising
Tomorrow, Mexico votes for a new president. All four candidates are strongly anti-Trump—and the frontrunner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a leftist populist. 1/17 Inside one of the fake news operations—of which hundreds apparently exist—trying to swing Mexico's elections. 2/17 To support
About 575 people, mostly women, were arrested in Washington D.C. while protesting Trump’s immigration policy. 1/20 In the run-up to his new summit with Putin, Trump says once again Russia probably didn’t hack our election in his favor. 2/20 Ten reasons why this is
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's swing vote, plans to retire, enabling Trump to establish a conservative court. 1/14 Kennedy has long been considered "the most powerful man in America.” Multiple experts explain why. 2/14 An America after Anthony Kennedy looks significantly different from America
We finished our second book of the summer, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, which means it's time for novelist Laura van den Berg to choose our first victor.
A music video for today's World Cup games: "Total Football" by Parquet Courts, from their new album—produced by Danger Mouse, incidentally—Wide Awake!. No apology, and fuck Tom Brady!
President Trump's third version of a travel ban survived the Supreme Court, limiting citizens of eight nations from entering the US. 1/27 One good thing about that: The Supreme Court’s ruling took a very powerful gun—Korematsu—out of Donald Trump’s hands. 2/27 Mitch
Remembering African-American cyclist Major Taylor, who kept winning despite rampant prejudice.
US border patrol pauses criminal prosecution referrals—and therefore family separation—for those illegally entering the US with children. 1/16 You know Auschwitz isn't going to be for you. Filipino author Rin Chupeco's Twitter thread on calls for civility amid Marcos's rise to
An excursion into an imagined future where humans bend biology even more to their wills—such as bees you can drive and plants that can grow buildings. See more sketches and visualizations here.
