President Biden scores passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Time to assess what comes next. / Wake Up to Politics
The likelihood that Americans born in the 1980s have of earning more than their parents: 50 percent. For those born in the 1940s? Ninety percent. / The Economist
The Iraqi Prime Minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday. / The National
The World Food Program says 23 million people in Afghanistan are "marching towards starvation." / BBC News
The US is open again to many (most?) types of vaccinated travelers. / Reuters
Some environmentalists accept ill effects to the desert as the price of building must-needed solar farms. And some don't. / The Los Angeles Times
Charcoal samples show that Antarctica used to burn, unspared from the era scientists call a "super fire world." / Live Science
About 6,000 people have returned to Paradise, home of the Camp Fire, where they're trying a "radical experiment" in community management: building a buffer zone around the town. / The New York Times
See also: Fall colors reach the Yosemite Valley. / California Fall Color
A big challenge for the world's electrified future: what to do with all of the dead batteries. / WIRED
A missing 16-year-old girl was found after she caught a driver's attention by using hand gestures popularized on TikTok to mean "violence at home." / CNN
A website lets you see practically every ship currently at sea. / Marine Traffic
Between 2014 and 2020, Frank Herfort photographed all of the existing Soviet-era metros. / The New York Times
A trip to "Tokyo nude"—the city rendered windowless and signless—through the lens of artist Rumi Ando. / Creative Boom
Architectural Digest goes inside Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz's modernist home stuffed with the works of Black artists. / Architectural Digest
"There may also be an element of racism at play here." A review of a grand hotel once enjoyed by Winston Churchill, and admired by Hitler, and now said to be among the world's worst. / Airmail