The GOP convention starts in three days, and it looks like they’re going to go through with this Trump thing. As I write this, the CNN chyron reads, “Coup attempt in Turkey; unclear who has control,” and the second half of that sentence seems to apply far beyond the Turkish borders. Here are some things to read. All of them are interesting, and some of them are important, but none of them are urgent, because sometimes you have to take a break from reading urgent stuff.
From Slate
- Daniel Engber’s devastating close read of the new, ethically compliant Jonah Lehrer book;
- Jim Newell’s sharp assessment of John McCain’s chances in the year of Trump;
- Isaac Chotiner’s revealing interview with New York Times “ISIS correspondent” Rukmini Callimachi;
- Lily Hay Newman’s comprehensive guide to this Pokémon Go thing (this helped me understand what everyone under 30 in the Slate office is talking about);
- John Kelly’s meditation on Diamond Reynolds’ devastating use of politeness as protest.
Not from Slate
- “Again and again, children are finding themselves enmeshed in the country’s roiling debate over police treatment of African-Americans.”
- Here’s a lovely essay from the Times’s Modern Love section.
- Huffington Post Highline’s investigation of 810 people who died in jail over the past year is a remarkable feat of journalism.
- We have interns at Slate, and it’s exactly like this. (It is nothing like this.)
- These are almost certainly the best photographs of pandas you will see this week, even if you look at a lot of pictures of pandas.
Around Slate
We had an open house at Slate’s New York office Thursday night, to celebrate our new office and to show off artwork from Brooklyn’s Trestle Gallery, which now hangs on Slate’s walls:
Derreck Johnson
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Gabriel Roth
Editorial director, Slate Plus
