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- The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years
- The unsolved mystery of Soviet spy Marcus Klinberg
- Israeli startup UBQ is turning trash into plastic products – Washington Post
- An Afterlife So Perilous, You Needed a Guidebook – The New York Times
- Keep Calm and Draw Together – The New York Times
- Opinion | Dave Eggers: Flattening the Truth on Coronavirus – The New York Times
- It’s Not Whether You Were Exposed to the Virus. It’s How Much.
- Loving the Lockdown
- Advice on being isolated during coronavirus – The Lily
- Lots of us are infected by the coronavirus — and don’t know it. Here’s what that means. – The Washington Post
- A student writes an open letter to administrators on her concerns about reopening campuses in the fall (opinion)
- Where Do Eels Come From? | The New Yorker
- How a New Yorker Cartoonist Spends Her Sundays – The New York Times
- What It’s Like to Live in a City Full of Moose | The Weather Channel
- Civil Rights Law Protects L.G.B.T. Workers, Supreme Court Rules – The New York Times
- Supreme Court says gay, transgender workers are protected by federal law forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex – The Washington Post
- Supreme Court finds federal law bars LGBT discrimination in workplace – POLITICO
- ‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection – POLITICO
June 12, 2020
- The darker side of a night with Hunter S. Thompson
- My wild, drug-addled days working for Hunter S. Thompson
- Hunter Thompson allegedly shoots Woody Creek woman
- Hunter S. Thompson’s most recent adventure in San Diego
- 6 Common Mistakes That Could Catch Your Oven on Fire
- The Covid-19 pandemic is starting a new chapter in China-Africa relations
- Feds comb Facebook to hunt down alleged rioters and looters
- The Pillage of India
- How Four Americans Robbed the Bank of England
- COVID-19 spikes, but most governors signal they’re staying the course
- A revolt against wearing masks creates a new coronavirus danger as California reopens
- Most COVID cases don’t spread virus—it’s the superspreaders we need to stop | Ars Technica
- The Case Of The Cold War Hacker Found Dead In A German Forest
June 11, 2020
- After Years of Debate, Confederate Symbols Disappear Quickly
- Linux distro review: System76’s Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS | Ars Technica
- ‘He has to get back to his life’: Trump looks past crises to resume his routine – POLITICO
- Hunter S Thompson quotes: what really happened when he came to London | British GQ
- Biden: ‘This president is going to try to steal this election’ – POLITICO
- Liberal groups back plan to expand Supreme Court – POLITICO
- National GOP: Don’t use Cantor’s pollster | TheHill
- Don’t call it a second wave
- Dems locking down votes on police reform
- Buffalo Bill (character) – Wikipedia
- Body in white – Wikipedia
June 10, 2020
- Trump says he won’t consider renaming Army bases named after Confederate generals – POLITICO
- The Army Is Finally Taking the Names of Traitors Off of Its Bases
- Why the Polls Are Alarming for Donald Trump
- Oakland protesters demand justice after police fatally shoot man, injure his pregnant girlfriend in stolen vehicle investigation
- Texas reports a third straight day of record coronavirus hospitalizations
- Capitol Hill Republicans watch Trump’s eroding standing with unease amid worries about November
- 19 states see rising coronavirus cases and Arizona is asking its hospitals to activate emergency plans
- Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC
- Trump aides despondent over Buffalo protester tweet
- How the search for missing Idaho children went from parents in Hawaii to the discovery of human remains
- Trump’s MAGA base finds its own rallying cry: Defend the police
- White House goes quiet on coronavirus as outbreak spikes again across the U.S.
- ‘Blood in the water’: Dems get unexpected opening against Trump in Iowa
- ‘What I saw was just absolutely wrong’: National Guardsmen struggle with their role in controlling protests
June 9, 2020
- Unique Coronavirus Masks Allow You To Gobble Food Like Pac-Man, Sip Through A Straw, Or Show Your Smile
- ‘Ugh’: Republicans cringe after Trump’s attack on 75-year old protester – POLITICO
- Trump’s latest attempt to tag Biden as a radical flops – POLITICO
- ‘We ought to set aside this talk’: Pence’s take on systemic racism meets a new test – POLITICO
- Trump gets the 2016 band back together as he tumbles in polls – POLITICO
- Hill Democrats quash liberal push to ‘defund the police’ – POLITICO
- NYPD cop who shoved protester hit with criminal charges
- Trump floats conspiracy theory about 75-year-old protester shoved by Buffalo cops – POLITICO
- Trent Lott fired by top lobbying firm – POLITICO
- What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride
June 8, 2020
- Trump to focus on crime, immigration and China to rehabilitate his standing
- Ossoff looks to turn celebrity into Senate primary win in Georgia
- The Senate’s record-breaking gridlock under Trump – POLITICO
- Opinion | The George Floyd Election – The New York Times
- How Americans Feel About George Floyd’s Death And The Protests | FiveThirtyEight
- He Works At Amazon Now. But He Hopes To Teach Again — This Time As His Own Boss. | FiveThirtyEight
- Trump’s job approval falls amid racial unrest, while Biden jumps to 14-point lead – POLITICO
- Republicans face looming unemployment dilemma – POLITICO
June 7, 2020
- How the Democrats could easily seize the Senate in 2020
- Thousands Who Got COVID-19 in March Are Still Sick
- The Trump Regime Is Beginning to Topple
- The Protests Will Spread the Coronavirus
- When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery | The Obscuritory
- Shaun King Keeps Raising Money, and Questions About Where It Goes
- OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong
June 6, 2020
- Chainsaw-wielding racist gets boosted by a top Trump aide as race protests sweep the nation – POLITICO
- The Pardon – The Atlantic
- Opinion | The Guardrails Are Off the U.S. Military – POLITICO
- FBI: Ohio National Guardsman expressed white supremacist ideology – POLITICO
- Conservatives charge liberals with social-distancing hypocrisy – POLITICO
- Democrats discover a new team player: Bernie Sanders – POLITICO
- Draft Democratic proposal seeks big changes to policing – POLITICO
- Is the Crisis Putting the Republican Senate in Jeopardy? – POLITICO
May 29, 2020
- The Delightful Doodles and Hidden Scribbles on the Backs of Artworks – Atlas Obscura
- Are Arizona, Georgia And Texas Really In Play? | FiveThirtyEight
- How Much Trump Could Help (Or Harm) Down-Ballot Republicans In November | FiveThirtyEight
- 3 States Have Made It Easier To Vote By Mail In November. Trump Isn’t Happy. | FiveThirtyEight
- You’re Not Going Back to Normal Office Life for a Long, Long Time
- The Bigamist’s Daughter
- I Tried Hypnosis to Deal with My Pandemic Anxiety, and Got Something Much Weirder
May 28, 2020
- ‘Just Sitting in Limbo.’ For Many Professionals, Careers Are on Hold. – The New York Times
- Police chiefs react with disgust to Minneapolis death, try to reassure their own cities
- Trump’s mockery of wearing masks divides Republicans
- Trump tells police not to worry about injuring suspects during arrests
- Opinion | Trump shreds another Republican’s life’s work
- Coronavirus may never go away, even with a vaccine
May 27, 2020
- How billionaires like Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs are helping Joe Biden try to close Trump’s digital campaign lead – Vox
- Opinion | How Israel and the Arab World Are Making Peace Without a Peace Deal – POLITICO
- North Carolina throws convention threat back at Trump and GOP – POLITICO
- Trump’s 2016 campaign brass warns he’s in trouble in 2020 – POLITICO
- ‘Why are you not burying him?’: Trump allies fret over rising Biden threat – POLITICO
May 26, 2020
- The Surreal Tale of an Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed – The Atlantic
- The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution
- Accused of Killing a Gambino Mob Boss, He’s Presenting a Novel Defense
- My Father, the QAnon Conspiracy Theorist
- My Unhealthy Obsession with My Dead Middle School Crush
- In crucial Florida, some senior voters cast a skeptical eye toward Trump’s reelection
- Opinion | Trump’s poor handling of the crisis may lose him the GOP’s most reliable voters
- Opinion | Whatever the crisis, Republicans want another tax cut for the rich
May 24, 2020
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May 18, 2020
- Why the Midwest is not *the* 2020 battleground
- 2020 Watch: Battleground map taking shape for Biden, Trump
- Opinion | Germany Is Reopening. And Learning a Tough Lesson.
- How Immigrant Twin Brothers Are Beating Trump’s Team on Facebook
- Opinion | Biden has four great options for a black female running mate. One is his best.
May 17, 2020
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May 14, 2020
- Stacey Abrams has ascended to political prominence. How has she harnessed so much power in so little time?
- Opinion | Coronavirus is now invading Trump counties in the swing states
- McConnell pines for Pompeo as Kansas chaos looms
- Coronavirus live updates: Rick Bright, in testimony to Congress, casts doubt on vaccine timeline – The Washington Post
- Coronavirus in Pennsylvania: G.O.P. Defiance of Lockdown Has 2020 Implications – The New York Times
- Republican voters give Trump and GOP governors cover to reopen – POLITICO
- Burr to step down as intel panel chairman as stock scandal deepens – POLITICO
- Perspective | Miss Manners: Stop apologizing for non-infraction
- Voters turned up to vote in Wisconsin yesterday, in spite of coronavirus
- Opinion | Why reopening protests reminiscent of the tea party era are fizzling
- Opinion | The electoral college is a ticking time bomb for November
- Republicans and Democrats barrel toward collision on vote-by-mail
- Opinion | A class war over social distancing? New data suggests otherwise.
May 13, 2020
- The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet | WIRED
- The ‘real Lord of the Flies’: a survivor’s story of shipwreck and salvation | World news | The Guardian
- Coronavirus live updates: Countries that reopened are closing down again as cases spike – The Washington Post
- Armed militia helped a Michigan barbershop open, a coronavirus defiance that puts Republican lawmakers in a bind – The Washington Post
May 12, 2020
- I Got Fired Over Zoom During the Coronavirus Pandemic – The Atlantic
- The Election Will Not Be Judgment Day | The New Republic
- Coronavirus Live Updates: Health Experts Testify U.S. Still Lacks Critical Capabilities to Contain Spikes – The New York Times
- Trump’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment masks deep White House unease – POLITICO
- The World Order Is Dead. Here’s How to Build a New One for a Post-Coronavirus Era. – POLITICO
- Jason Isbell, Self-Doubt and the Album That Tested His Marriage
- Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When most people agree that your boyfriend is most disagreeable
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March 30, 2020
- Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A widower’s request to his child is a lot to unpack
- Opinion | Coronavirus may alter the political landscape. But the GOP won’t change.
- Opinion | Republicans may finally be socially distancing themselves from libertarianism
- The trial of Stephen Glass
- Lessons From Serial Fabulist Stephen Glass On How Not To Reboot A Career
- This Is the ‘Cozy Catastrophe’ Americans Have Always Wanted | WIRED
- Suddenly Nextdoor is filled with kind neighbors. But also new kinds of shaming.