This Week’s Selections

The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart. (link)

Why a dementia village in the Netherlands is fueling hope in D.C. (link)

Mapping Bob Dylan’s Mind (link)

The Deepest South –– Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history? (link)

Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction (link)

Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway. (link)

FLASHBACK: The Lessons of Katie Couric (link)

Other Items of Note

“Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison” (link)
Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or is that taking things too far? (link)
The end of naked locker rooms