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In sickness, only: on mercy killings, and the crisis in our health care system

“I can see nothing but a missed opportunity to inform the broader public about economic realities in our increasingly stratified country.”

North Korea’s Clothing Research Center announced that it has created clothing that contains “high-grade protein, amino acids, fruit juice, magnesium, iron, and calcium” and can therefore be eaten to avoid starvation.

The vice president of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Dubai gave all Gender Balance Index awards, including “best personality supporting gender balance,” to men, but “recognized the efforts” of one woman in a press release about the prizes.

Canadian air-traffic controllers purchased more than 350 pizzas for their American counterparts.

The story of one man’s search for his brother speaks to the pain of hundreds of thousands of missing migrants’ families

A recent cycle of vigilante films might gesture towards Trump-era fears, but their source is much older

Liberia’s unmarked graves

Trump brought candy to meeting with Schumer and Pelosi; the governor of Ohio was sworn in on nine Bibles; a woman was banned from Walmart after drinking wine from a Pringles can while riding an electric shopping cart

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

Kishore Mahbubani on the nonexistent China threat; Matthew Wolfe follows a search for a missing migrant; Ann Neumann asks if homicides among the elderly are acts of mercy or malice

Jair Bolsonaro eliminated Brazil’s Labor Ministry; a coup failed in Gabon; “yellow vest” protesters walled up a member of Parliament’s garage

It’s all true: life in Belo Horizonte before the election of Jair Bolsonaro

Debate over Trump’s wall that maybe isn’t a wall continued; Ukraine ended martial law; fireworks banned on the Galapagos Islands because they cause animals to tremble

“Mad Dog” Mattis resigned; Trump’s spiked slats forced a government shutdown; Canadian boy bit by coyote upset he hasn’t turned into a werewolf

Dana Frank, the author of The Long Honduran Night, discusses the parties who orchestrated the 2009 coup and the resistance that has risen to fight against them

A plea to the left to reconsider efforts focused on “the greater good”

Unknown knowns: the limits of racial discourse in a system almost exclusively controlled by white people

The crisis in France is gnawing away at what’s left of the lower classes’ pride and possessions

Michael Cohen sentenced to three years in prison; Mitch McConnell announced a Senate vote on long-delayed bill to decrease the prison population

Fred Turner explains how the internet subverts democracy; Michel Houellebecq admires Donald Trump; Barry Lopez reports from Antartica

Two-brain solution: two nights of insightful conversation with the esteemed comedian and the internationally renowned psychiatrist

“Who, save for the little barons of Wall Street, believes in the progressive virtues of capitalism?”

John Kelly resigned; “ballot harvesting” uncovered in North Carolina; a robot ran over bear repellent at an Amazon warehouse

“The Democratic Party is best understood as an assemblage of baronies, the three most important of which—California, New York, and Illinois—dole out the most patronage and political favors in return for filling the party’s coffers and guaranteeing the reelection of its most cherished adherents.”

George H. W. Bush died; military law enforcement officers broke up a catfishing ring; a London ambulance trainee went rogue

The careful act of paying respects to kin while under curfew in Kashmir

Life during wartime is more complicated than easily digestible, Hollywood heroism

No bleaker than it’s ever been

In Jharkhand, women take on the timber mafia