The republic for which it stands
The NRA’s Catch-22 for Black Men Shot by Police
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Demands Taxpayer Money For Religious Schools
The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck
10 Years After: The Post-Recovery Economy
Stephen Colbert Made DJT’s Hurricane Response Into A Children’s Book
Sexual assault survivors tell ‘why I didn’t report’
Stop Making Victims of Sexual Assault into Martyrs for Virginity
We Need to Rethink Our Ideas About Aging
The Plot to Subvert an Election – Unraveling the Russia Story So Far
China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens. For some, ‘social credit’ will bring privileges — for others, punishment
John Oliver: Facebook’s global expansion has been linked to political turmoil overseas, so maybe their ads should focus less on how they “connect the world” and more on why connecting people isn’t always the best idea.
Doug Ford Cancelled Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment Because It Was Working
How Golf Digest helped free a golf-course artist imprisoned 27 years for a murder he didn’t commit
Arizona’s Gosar family asks voters NOT to re-elect their brother to Congress
Noor Inayat Khan, one of the bravest women of World War II
RIP Thad Mumford, MASH writer and former Yankees batboy
R.I.P. Norm Breyfogle, 1960-2018, Batman artist
The 2018 Winners of the Ig(R) Nobel Prize
You Can’t See ‘Round Corners: The Vietnam War as a rare TV miniseries
Two People with Paralysis Walk Again Using an Implanted Device
In Saratoga Springs, NY! This Enormous Warehouse Of Used Books In New York Will Be Your New Favorite Destination
Interview with Dick Van Dyke at 2017 Salt Lake City Comic-Con (30 min)
What’s coming to Broadway in the coming months
Premiere night of The Minor League Mecca, the Albany Patroons documentary
The million-dollar brownstone that no one owned
Bruef slide show on the history of the Horn & Hardart Automats
Now I Know: Why the Big Bad Wolf Wouldn’t be a Good Baseball Player and Why You Shouldn’t Pass Gas Near a West Virginia Police Office and When Flying First Class Isn’t Good Enough and How Long It Takes to Find a Needle in a Haystack
The history of cookies as explained by the world’s foremost authority on the subject
Would-be robber loses trousers
MUSIC
Fugue on “Donald Trump is a wanker” based on Seven-Man Army – White Stripes. Plus So You Want to Write a Fugue? – Glenn Gould
René and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War – Paul Simon (Live from Copenhagen); Feeling Lost with Paul Simon One Last Time
Land of Confusion – Hidden Citizens
Africa -Weezer (starring Weird Al Yankovic)
Estancia, by a composer named Alberto Ginastera
Ravel Left Hand Piano Concerto played by Yuja Wang
Overture to The Jolly Robbers -von Suppé
Bonehemian Rhapsody – 28-Trombone Collaboration! (from ITF 2018!)
Marry An Ugly Woman – Rafael de Leon (Roaring Lion)
How big was Helen Shapiro? The Beatles opened for her in 1963
Paul McCartney: Lands No. 1 Album for First Time in 36 Years and Answers the Web’s Most Searched Questions and Talks to Howard Stern and at the Kennedy Center Honors (2012)