* Andrew Sullivan: The rise of Trump marks the extinction of our democracy. * Opposition to Vietnamese refugees in the '70s was higher than today's opposition to Syrians. * Collection of once-embargoed photos of “enemy” Japanese Bay Area citizens being rounded up. * Neither free-market policy nor individual behavior
Orly Faya’s portraits merge her subjects with the nature surrounding them.
* US and Russia possibly to draw up map of "safe zones" in Aleppo, hoping Russia can convince Syria's Assad to obey. * Photographs and brief interviews from inside Aleppo, where over 250 were killed by airstrikes last week. * Twenty years after Australia enacted strict gun control, the
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* Anticipating this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner, a list of jokes told by every president. * Boehner calls Ted Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh,” “the most miserable son of a bitch in my life.” * Don’t underestimate Trump’s top advisor, who made “a booming business working with dictators.
* Prince was the rare rock star who took his female collaborators and bandmates seriously. * Google knows who you'll vote for. What if we let them? * Flourishing natural habitat at Chernobyl mirrors modern understanding of radiation's therapeutic upsides. * "In the Republican presidential frontrunner's telling,
After artists Andy Leek and Daniela Sea are matched on Tinder, each agrees to film their side of the date.
* US destroys $800m of the Islamic State's cash reserves with air strikes. * Big strike at UK's National Health Service results from a plan to make doctors work Saturdays without extra pay. * Lucid, entertaining John Lanchester piece on what money is exactly and what it will become
