September 22, 2015
- The Burkina Faso presidential guard attempted a coup—the rest of the army wasn't as enthusiastic.
- Shkreli's pharma profiteering is hardly unique, but it sheds light on an odious—and dangerous—practice.
- Scientists think they've isolated dengue's virulence to a single protein—the discovery could point to new treatments.
- "Abortion is one of those rare issues in which public opinion never seems to budge all that much."
- Journalists can deceive, within limits, to chase a story—but what about the activist behind the Planned Parenthood tapes?
- Americans use the terms as if they’re interchangeable, but they’re not.
- A new study says that in four years of college, more than a quarter of undergrad women were sexually assaulted.
- After Scott Walker quits 2016 race, ex-aide dishes on his strategic missteps.
- Volkswagen in crisis after admitting it cheated on pollution tests for years.
- VW says 11 million diesel cars worldwide are equipped with its emissions-deceiving software.
- "Here is a rare public example of how power is wielded by Britain’s elite, of how control is exerted."
- A Chinese actor impersonates Obama with a mixture of real and fake English.
- "Depending on your attitude to Chinglish, it is getting better / worse all the time."
- This year’s National Book Award longlist for nonfiction features the most women ever, seven of 10 nominees.
- NPR is streaming Lin Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical Hamilton.
- The moon is shrinking—Earth's tidal forces are causing its surface to crack.
- Father John Misty covers Taylor Swift in the style of Lou Reed.