October 13, 2016
20 Stories To Read This Weekend
- There is a civil war going on in the Republican Party. Find out what’s behind it and how it might turn out.
- Also, how different is the US election to the Brexit referendum?
- Will we ever break our addictions to our phones?
- We warned you that 2016 was going to suck. And most of our predictions came true.
- “If you’re not prepared to appreciate what you have in your glass, then I advise you to drink Coca-Cola.” Read Christopher Waltz’s 5 rules for drinking champagne.
- China is drowning in public debt and it won’t end well for the rest of the world.
- The New York Review of Books looks back at the Panama Papers.
- Fab.com was once valued at $1 billion. Then it sold for $15 million. Find out what lessons can be learned from the collapsed unicorn.
- Hillary Clinton says she is “the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse.”
- A new magazine in Germany is reviving the relationship between the German and Yiddish languages.
- Did you know there is a war going on in Yemen? Here are 7 things you should know about the war in Yemen.
- The Financial Times has lunch with Oliver Stone about his career and his latest movie, Snowden (ironically, behind a paywall).
- Ever wonder what President Obama thinks about self-driving cars? He sat down with Wired to talk about it. And he penned his own essay about why now is the best time to be alive.
- What’s a late-night TV show to do when everything Trump says is so outrageous you don’t know if it’s real or not? Take a look at how some late-night shows are handling the presidential election.
- “In 2012, roughly 16 million Adderall prescriptions were written for adults between ages 20 and 39.” Read about what it’s like to be a part of the Adderall Generation.
- A case for why the GOP should appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court before it’s too late.
- If you’ve been following all of the election polls, you should read about the 19-year-old Illinois man who has been distorting national averages.
- Check out these devastating photos of the effects of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti from the New York Times.
- The Washington Post has an exceptional feature on border security, immigration, globalization and a new age of walls.
- Presented without comment: The 7 Oddest Things Donald Trump Thinks
