The Virgin’s Gambit.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his wife go on television to protest his innocence, using a peculiar virginity defense. 1/25

One alarming aspect of Kavanaugh’s appearance was how much it diverged “in tone and substance” from a letter he sent the same day to the Senate Judiciary Committee. 2/25

Is the era of a faithful wife making a difference in whether people believe her husband now finished? 3/25

Kavanaugh’s freshman-year roommate at Yale tells reporters he believes the judge’s latest accuser. 4/25

How Yale students and alumni are responding to the Kavanaugh storm. 5/25

Michael Avenatti, lawyer for Stormy Daniels, says another client will come forward with information about Kavanaugh by Wednesday. The Democrats aren’t pleased to hear it. 6/25

Ted Cruz hastily exits a restaurant in Washington to chants of "We believe survivors!" 7/25

A little summary from the Washington Post of the last 48 hours: “White House grapples with dual crises over Kavanaugh and Rosenstein.” 8/25

(Oh, yeah, Rosenstein. Here’s the New York Times on what his Monday was like.) 9/25

A year after his “rocket man” speech, Trump returns to New York to address the UN General Assembly. Reportedly, the intended theme will be “sovereignty” (again). 10/25

It’s easy to forget that President Trump once ran as a quasi-isolationist. 11/25

Why did Mike Pompeo slash the refugee “cap?” Because Stephen Miller now runs the State Department. 12/25

A senior Chinese official says that when it comes to trade issues, the US has “a knife to China’s neck.” 13/25

A decade after Lehman Brothers collapsed, a Denver lawyer is still tracking down bogus loans. 14/25

Residents in Palo Alto pay California nearly a billion dollars in taxes. 15/25

A short film depicts a day in the life of a third grade class at the California School for the Deaf. 16/25

A list of forbidden behaviors in Venice, Italy—which now include sitting in some places—as well as the fines they incur. 17/25

New York’s purest bike angel voluntarily shifts Citi Bikes for the sake of helping others. 18/25

Scientists are confounded—becoming emotional in some cases!—by a new version of Schrödinger’s cat that suggests quantum theory contradicts itself. 19/25

Glenn Gould becomes the latest dead musician to be resurrected with a "hologram tour." 20/25

Video: In 1959, a young Glenn Gould plays the piano, walks in the woods, and talks about people’s “justifiable complaints” with his “platform manner.” 21/25

Millennial collectors are hunting down web memorabilia, such as old memes with a "digital patina." 22/25

Judges of the Booker Prize complain of “book inflation” (i.e., too many long books) and that editors aren’t doing their most basic job. 23/25

The reason people hate wasps (but love bees) is mostly attributed to publicity problems. 24/25

It smells like the default home scent of a very rude, wealthy woman who is wearing a big fur coat and has a gigantic dog for status rather than love. A review of an $88 candle. 25/25

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