North Korea's complaint.

A longtime North Korean diplomat calls Mike Pence “stupid,” and says any comparisons to Libya are “ignorant.” 1/27

At the same time, North Korea dismantles its main nuclear-weapons test site. 2/27

Another American consular employee falls ill after a mysterious sonic attack, this time in China. 3/27

Trump tells CBS's Lesley Stahl he attacks the press relentlessly so that no one believes them when he's up for critique. 4/27

Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of 77 words that is better called Jerkish than English. A good reminder that Philip Roth didn’t just write novels. 5/27

“Philip Roth might not have imagined Portnoy’s Complaint speaking to a transgender man in a women’s shelter, but it did.” 6/27

Psst, Tournament of Books people: We just announced the books we’ll be reading for this year’s Rooster Summer Reading Challenge. 7/27

A quick summary of the political norms President Trump has violated in the past week or so. 8/27

The House passes a version of “right-to-try” legislation—and either it's a win for sick patients, or an attack on crucial safeguards. 9/27

A harrowing dispatch from Nigeria, where the supply of Tramadol is causing an opioid epidemic like and unlike ours. 10/27

Japanese train stations are world-class manipulators: stocked full of ingenious nudges you barely notice. 11/27

The NFL announces a new policy: from now on, teams will be fined if athletes kneel during the national anthem. 12/27

Paul Ryan promised Harley Davidson workers that corporate tax cuts would protect their jobs. Now they’re fired. 13/27

It looks like Elon Musk violated labor regulations with a tweet about unionization and stock options. 14/27

Two writers are currently employed at LaGuardia Airport to compose a story for you while you fly, then text it to you when you land. 15/27

The latest gig economy job? "Bird hunters," people who hunt to recharge the scooters currently littering big cities. 16/27

“Would you put a picture of your child on a billboard next to a highway alongside your family name? Of course not. But people do it online all the time. And it’s not a problem. Until it is.” Interview with a former New York skip tracer who now “disappears” people—in real life and online. 17/27

Americans have started to prioritize paying off the balance on their smartphone over the loan on their car. 18/27

How a movie car designer imagines an autonomous supercar of the future. 19/27

Photographs from “In Search of Frankenstein” juxtapose snow-covered mountains with “a network of eerie subterranean bunkers.” 20/27

Wikipedia is actually a massive multiplayer online role-playing game. Wait, what? 21/27

As shown by the response to the latest Childish Gambino album, the internet killed the criticism star. 22/27

Manipulate nature's soundscapes by adding and removing their components—e.g., insects, people. 23/27

See how Earth looked at various stages in its evolution, from 600 million to 20 million years ago. 24/27

For the recent Met gala, the New York Times Styles section had 18 staffers in an on-site "war room." 25/27

The open floor plan may represent “the most distinctly American home design possible”—i.e., a prison without walls. 26/27

Here’s an advanced tic-tac-toe puzzle for your afternoon tea. Have a great day! 27/27

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