This Week’s Selections
The Elevator and Why U.S. Housing Costs Are Skyrocketing (link)
The Unlikely Hippos of Colombia (link)
The Secret, Magical Life of Lithium (link)
How Car Dealers Scam Customers (link)
A Wikipedia Editor With Grudges (link)
Flashbacks:
Caitlin Flanagan on Katie Couric (link)
Why the Light in L.A. Is Better (link)
A note on the attempt to murder Donald Trump: the best journalism about it has yet to be produced. Rather than be timely I’m waiting to feature anything until next week’s newsletter. As I reflect on the event I found myself revisiting a speech from 1968, delivered on the occasion of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by Robert F. Kennedy, who lost a brother to an assassin’s bullet and would be killed by one himself.
Other Items of Note
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