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About 45 million Americans have lost their jobs during the pandemic. At the same time, US billionaires made $584 billion.
1/22 | ABC News
Seattle clears the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
2/22 | The Seattle Times
Russia votes to enable Putin to rule until 2036.
3/22 | Reuters
Polls show a high level of enthusiasm for voting this year. Unfortunately, new voter registrations have fallen off a cliff.
4/22 | FiveThirtyEight
A thought experiment by James Fallows: What if the United States' coronavirus response had been handled by aviation experts?
5/22 | The Atlantic
More US testing is the first step towards suppressing, not just mitigating, the coronavirus.
6/22 | NPR
“It’s about what we are not seeing.” Lessons learned thus far from coronavirus autopsies.
7/22 | The Washington Post
Ross Douthat argues that focusing on Elihu Yale’s slave-trading ignores how much we currently rely on China’s slave labor.
8/22 | The New York Times
Your weekly white paper: “Exposure to a three‐year federal grant for school police is associated with a 2.5 percent decrease in high school graduation rates and a 4 percent decrease in college enrollment rates.”
9/22 | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Police often break rules about rubber bullets, resulting in broken noses, fractured facial bones, traumatic brain injuries.
10/22 | LAist
In Bel Air, a negative response backfires on those who don’t want a Black Lives Matter protest.
11/22 | Curbed
During two weeks of protests in LA, calls for police assistance declined nearly by half.
12/22 | The Los Angeles Times
As long as we've had markets, we've had upscale markets—and now fancy restaurants are becoming CSAs for the urban wealthy.
13/22 | Eater
A Paris café uses large teddy bears to encourage social distancing.
14/22 | Reddit
See also: One benefit to dining behind plexiglass shells is actually smelling your food.
15/22 | The Wall Street Journal
In Austin, where nearly all concerts are canceled, Vanilla Ice is scheduled to perform.
16/22 | The Austin Chronicle
Mark Hamill, Condoleezza Rice, and others pick the Mozart that moves them. See also: “Reunited Apart” pays tribute to the late, great John Hughes.
17/22 | The New York Times, YouTube
"A smattering of smashed auction records" during an online art sale by Sotheby's.
18/22 | Artsy
Related: Lessons from a master auctioneer.
19/22 | Texas Monthly
Virginia Heffernan calls the internet “both an extension of nature and a map of it.”
20/22 | 1843
A 10-year timelapse video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade.
21/22 | The Morning News
The story of a semi-professional burglar brought down by stolen Super Bowl rings.
22/22 | Bloomberg
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