When “he’s gone!” ↦ “it’s back!”

Boris Johnson visits Berlin in an attempt to negotiate a new deal, with only two months before the Brexit deadline. 1/19

The Danish legal system is being roiled because of errors in phone tracking data offered as evidence. 2/19

“Bemusement has turned to fury in Denmark” after Donald Trump cancels his visit over Copenhagen’s refusal to sell him Greenland. 3/19

The real reason Trump cancelled? Obama will visit Denmark in late September, and his reception will likely be much nicer. 4/19

See also: Writing sketch comedy in the current era is particularly difficult when the news often tragically jumps the joke. 5/19

Ross Douthat says a recession would guarantee Trump's removal from office—and set the stage for Trumpism's eventual return. 6/19

How to become an admiral in the Russian Navy: start on a submarine, command the Black Sea Fleet, receive medals. 7/19

Brazil loses 500 million bees. 8/19

Lawyers and experts say Border Patrol agents routinely derail migrants' asylum claims with bogus paperwork. 9/19

New “person first” language guidelines remove words like “felon,” “offender,” and “convict” from San Francisco’s criminal justice system. 10/19

A recent graduate of Yale, who used food stamps as a child, explains the university’s different rings of wealth. 11/19

Black men in America have "better" odds of being killed by police than winning some types of scratch-off lottery games. 12/19

“Like” is used by boys as much as girls, octogenarians as much as teens, and is neither confined to English nor uniquely American. 13/19

Recent work about body dysmorphia and shadows, by New York-based photographer Lissy Elle Laricchia. 14/19

"Scientists report that all 16 GB of Wikipedia have been encoded into synthetic DNA." 2019 in science so far. 15/19

A new type of plastic pollution: “rock impostors” are made from heavily weathered plastic, colored by lead and chromium. 16/19

Photographs and an essay by a paparazzo who quit the job to shoot street photography as a hobby. 17/19

"As far as I know, they were the first cats live on the Internet." The longest-running webcam is going dark after 25 years. 18/19

An oral history of the 2018 US Open women’s final, arguably one of the most controversial matches in tennis history. 19/19

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