The performance cost of tweeting and the best safecracker in Los Angeles.
The Senate votes 56 to 41 to revoke—symbolically, mostly—American military support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. 1/21
The United States suffered 94 school shooting incidents in 2018, a near 60% increase on the previous high set in 2006. 2/21
Meanwhile, US death row executions are at a 25-year low, with fewer than 30 executions nationwide in 2018. 3/21
A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week. 4/21
If the archimandrite hits the woolsack with the mace, there will be a hustings. British politics explained. 5/21
An attempt to pay conservative D-list celebrities very little money to say liberal things on camera. 6/21
Fashion companies brag about their garments being made in the USA, specifically Southern California, but many workers only get $5 an hour. 7/21
See also: Geoff Manaugh profiles the best safecracker in Los Angeles. 8/21
South Dakota's Rapid City is judged to have the most unpredictable weather in America. 9/21
A new study of NBA players finds that a player's shooting accuracy declines if they stay up late tweeting. 10/21
Fentanyl is "barely more trouble to dispatch" than any of the other goods that America imports from China every day. 11/21
A kiosk at Taylor Swift concerts attempts to identify her stalkers through a secret facial recognition system. 12/21
"I’ve committed myself to help white people stop the nonsense.” White people need to stop being so fragile when discussing race. 13/21
An in-depth look at suicide from a writer who has attempted it several times. 14/21
Photographs that explore what it means to be a queer ranchero. 15/21
Twenty men arrested on an array of charges related to them brandishing loaded guns in a March 2018 rap video. 16/21
A new role model for millennial anarchists: Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. 1/721
Three plagiarists explain why they stole other people’s words. 18/21
Santa arrives early this year: Announcing the 18 works of fiction that made the shortlist for next year’s Tournament of Books. 19/21
Agatha Christie might not have been much of a writer, but she "was very, very good at murder." 20/21
Video: A demented holiday story from Richard E. Grant. 21/21
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