Pity the chickens.
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster is expected to depart the White House within weeks. 1/18
Other Trump advisors continue to compete for his approval. How? By telling big whoppers, or answering sensitive questions with offensive remarks. 2/18
India and Pakistan are literally ding-dong-ditching one another’s diplomats. 3/18
The People’s Congress would appear to worship Chairman Xi. (Mandatory screenings of a documentary about Xi helped make it the most watched ever.) Worth remembering that China's been here before. 4/18
Applying game-theory and "zugzwang" to the Trump-North Korea talks. Few moves leave America better off. 5/18
Using a loophole in censorship laws, journalists work with musicians to set stories to music, uploaded to Spotify. 6/18
Bot networks retweet Sally Albright and Eric Garland against progressives in an internecine tussle of liberals. 7/18
In case you missed it: A California teacher and reserve police officer accidentally fired his gun in class, injuring a student. 8/18
Instances of female teachers sexually abusing male students are rare, but not at Noah Kotch's FoxNews.com. 9/18
On March 21, the Department of Interior will hold the largest auction of offshore leases in US history. 10/18
Portraits of American debt: This insurance agent in Philadelphia owes $120,000 in student loans. 11/18
Why liquor companies and big brewers love self-driving cars: less drunk driving, more sales, more alcoholism. 12/18
Of course tech companies want kids to learn how to code: It’ll drive up the supply of coders and send wages down. 13/18
"GTA photographers" are gamers who make art from inside the setpieces of Grand Theft Auto. 14/18
After a year in space, Scott Kelly's genetic code changed significantly, and 7% looks to remain permanently altered. 15/18
No matter what Hillbilly Elegy-adoring liberals in big cities like to think, Appalachia isn’t Trump country. 16/18
I sometimes recite silently to myself when I am in academic environments: ‘Bob, kill all the chickens.’ I find it functions as a bit of truly useful self-therapeutics, a mantra for lower-class passing among the smarter set. A philosopher talks movingly about “imposter sydromeâ€â€”what it’s like to join the academy from a rural background. 17/18
If you like to follow men’s college basketball, the failure of the Pac-12 to send a team to the second round probably busted your brackets. 18/18
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