Six people were murdered and two dozen more were injured in a mass shooting at yesterday's Highland Park Independence Day parade. / Chicago Tribune

The specter of civil war has long been used in American politics to stoke fear and avoid addressing citizens' grievances. / The New Statesman

"Democrats cheat" is the mantra for American conservative talk radio, which is now laying the groundwork for disputing midterm election results. / The New York Times

"Please don't forget about me and the other American detainees." Brittney Griner wrote a letter to Biden. / CBS News

An unserved warrant for a white woman in the abduction of Emmett Till has been found in a Mississippi courthouse basement, and Till's relatives want her arrested. / Associated Press

"Although public pools were legally desegregated after the Civil Rights Act, white residents' attendance declined." Swimming pools tell the story of race in America. / VICE

Where to see dead-end bridges around the world. / Atlas Obscura

Frank Lloyd Wright designed a doghouse—that later wound up at the dump—for one of the Usonian-style houses he built. / Hyperallergic

"They're not fantastic when they're biting you." Paleontologists are using harvest ants to help uncover fossils. / The New York Times

In an astonishing discovery, a baby mammoth with intact hair has been found in the Yukon. / Gizmodo

See also: Though they were spread over multiple continents in the Arctic, wolves survived the ice age as a single population. / Ars Technica

Debbie Millman: "When pregnant people were given the right to bodily autonomy, all the kids like me were granted that salvation, too." / The Philadelphia Inquirer

Citing reports of suspicious incidents, the FBI warns that job applicants may be using deepfakes in online interviews. / Motherboard

"Instead of finding my identity through a particular teenage friend group, I became The Morrissey Guy." / Alive in the Nineties

An analysis of the complex set of compound pejoratives favored by Redditors. / Boing Boing