* Brexit campaigners crisscross the UK for a final day of arguments. * Latest polls find Britain (barely) inclined to remain in the EU. * Recent stumbles by Trump encourage GOP critics to pursue a bid to block his nomination. * Views of Chinese women on Clinton. * Wall Street donors say they’ll cut
Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi elegizes the Arctic from a floating piano at the edge of a melting glacier.
An unbearable video about the “future of media”—complete with endless buzzwords and nonsense—is not, in fact, a joke. From the Observer: Earlier this month Michael Ferro, chairman of Tribune Publishing, announced that the legacy media group was rebranding as tronc, or 'Tribune Online Content' (though the
* Senators say no to strengthening background checks and preventing suspected terrorists from purchasing guns. * On the gun vote: only 11 senators' votes were up for grabs. * Gun control point and counterpoint: Leah Finnegan annotates an AR-15 owner’s apologia. * Every time a bomb goes off somewhere, every time
Finally, the Japanese Donald Trump commercial we’ve all been waiting for.
* US Senate to vote on four gun control bills today; none are expected to pass. * Summer solstice arrives tonight with a rare "strawberry moon." * The Sahel, the world’s largest interconnecting crisis area, is on the verge of collapse. * First country-to-country ride-hail service takes people
Footage from Japan’s Onbashira festival—reputed to have continued, uninterrupted, for 1,200 years—where young men prove their mettle by riding enormous logs down a hill.
* "Secret" memo sees dozens of US diplomats urging Obama to attack Assad, in response to more than 400,000 dead. * The vast majority of mass shooters use handguns, not assault rifles, in their attacks. * See also: FBI crime data shows murder victims by weapon, 2010–2014. * Brexit campaign
* Democratic Senator's filibuster leads to a "path forward" in the Senate on two gun control measures. * Since the gun lobby has long suppressed research, basic questions remain about how policy can lead to prevention. * Trump sees two civilizations at conflict; for Obama, they are one. * To
