October 20, 2016
17 Stories To Read This Weekend
- The Kurds have been kicking butt in the fight against ISIS, but will it win them a homeland?
- Here are a bunch of Canadians telling us that America is great. Stay great America!
- Trump might not be ready to concede defeat, but here’s a moving letter George H.W. Bush wrote to Bill Clinton when Clinton beat him in 1992.
- Are Assange and Wikileaks impartial? Are they just anti-Hillary? Or are they pro-Trump? New York Review of Books takes a look.
- Germans have a great tradition of “compound words” to describe the unexpected. Here are a few they are using to describe Donald Trump.
- With all these email leaks going around, you are bound to find your name in one at some point. Here is what to do if you are ever dissed in one.
- An in-depth look at how ISIS has become so powerful.
- The Obamas had a glitzy final state dinner with Italian PM Mateo Renzi. Here are some great photos of the event catered by Mario Batali, orange crocs and all.
- Meet the anti-Nate Silver who is backing Trump 100% despite having no campaign ties.
- Please helicopter parents, let kids play!
- “The white flight of Derek Black.” Some great reporting by the Washington Post on White Power movements.
- The last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor has some words of advice.
- With Mosul under attack, we look back at Patrick Cockburn’s reporting on ISIS.
- Egypt tried to crackdown on corruption. It backfired.
- The 2017 Putin Calendar is out in case anyone was wondering what to get us for the holidays.
- Is having fewer friends better for us? Quartz says yes.
- Some powerful women just wrote a moving letter to Michelle Obama: “To the first lady with love!”
