New Mexico gov signs bill granting electoral votes to national popular vote winner
How China Turned a City Into a Prison (Powerful and disturbing multimedia reporting.)
Looking to take a sabbatical writing year in 2021, but need funding. Anyone able to recommend good scholar-in-residence programs I could apply for? Happy to go anywhere in the world!
Lately it seems I can’t login to any of my US bank accounts without having to reset the password. Every time! This doesn’t make me feel more secure…
Modern version of the Judgment of Solomon: “Brazilian identical twins both ordered to pay maintenance”
“The Japanese catalogued over 1,400 varieties of rice indigenous to Korea“
How Trump Administration Is Tracking Migrant Girls’ Periods to Stop Them From Getting Abortions
Most discussions of “electability” are just concern trolling. People pretend that they’d support a candidate “if only they were more electable,” when the truth is they don’t like the candidate’s politics and they use electability to avoid having to defend their own preferences.
FTC hits predatory scientific publisher with a $50 million fine
Thanks to the neighbor who maintains this nice garden!
Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk? (Despite the alarmist headline, a really good piece of journalism.)
“Electability” is how people who don’t understand politics talk about politics.
The Apple 🇹🇼 emoji story got a lot of publicity (turned out to be a bug), but Apple has also been inadvertently censoring the word “China” in the US! If you use voice dictation to write the word China, Apple will write “Chyna” instead!
I like myself some bad TV, but Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery is so terribly bad that I found myself rooting for the future AI against all life in the universe. Some of the stand-alone episodes were fun, but the main story is just unbearably bad.
The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Everything That’s Wrong With Liberalism
Sensefield: An Exhibition of Experimental Ethnography - Museum Anthropology Review