Morning Coffee (8/4/19)

Border Patrol’s Toxic Culture Goes Way Beyond Facebook Groups. It’s Actually for Sale on a T-Shirt.

This is terrifying: North Carolina gun shop uses images of four congresswomen of color on billboard

This is really the stupidest timeline: Iceland criticized Duterte’s drug war, so he accused its people of ‘eating ice’

15 Percent Is Not A Magic Number For Primary Delegates

Medicare for All? For More? Here’s How Medicare Works

Wow: Cisco to Pay $8.6 Million to Settle Government Claims of Flawed Tech

Iranian Soccer Star’s Sister Wants Women to Be Allowed at His Matches

Crystal Cathedral in California Gets a New Life as a Catholic Church

When a Mega-Tsunami Drowned Mars, This Spot May Have Been Ground Zero

Harlan Lane, Vigorous Advocate for Deaf Culture, Dies at 82

Afternoon Tea (7/15/19)

"The United States women’s soccer team has become an excruciating example of a scenario we’ve seen play out for decades: Little girls are told to follow their dreams, and to excel, until they become women and expect be paid for it."

Julián Castro can’t speak Spanish. Here’s why that’s so authentic.

What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America

International Nonbinary Day was... yesterday, oops, but here are some book recommendations for the occasion!

Why No One Can Agree on What George Washington Thought About the Relationship Between Church and State

Afternoon Tea (7/8/19)

The Moon Sits for Its Portrait

Screw This Whole ‘My Girlfriend Isn’t Hungry’ Menu Trend

From LGBTQ Reads: New Releases: July 2019 So many things there sound good!

How stock photographers take a perfectly anonymous picture

Lost in Translation

Afternoon Tea (5/31/19)

I'm so excited for this book and this is a great interview: How Jasmine Guillory invites readers to celebrate with The Wedding Party

This is fascinating: In Turkey, Keeping a Language of Whistles Alive

A Journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Where Sleeping Beauty Awakens

Celebrating the Eclipse That Let Einstein Shine

19 Cucumber Recipes to Keep Cool With All Summer

Afternoon Tea (5/14/19)

This is riveting: What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right

Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise.

Robert Caro’s Blind Spot

Images from Nigeria, land of the 'inseparable two'

Script, history and ideology: German fonts and handwriting

Afternoon Tea (5/2/19)

It’s Time for the Heroic Male Paleontologist Trope to Go Extinct

Fears of a Fourth Reich

With Indigenous Languages in Steep Decline, Summer Camps Offer Hope

Can This Breakfast Cereal Help Save The Planet?

T.S. Eliot, Crime Fiction Critic

Afternoon Tea (2/14/19)

How a heart-shaped candy box came to stand for love

The Sexuality of Slang

Cooking with Iris Murdoch

How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution

Picture this: portraits of Anglo-Saxon rulers

Afternoon Tea (2/6/19)

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

A Syrian Chocolatier's Legend Lives On In Europe — But Stays Close To Its Roots

A fascinating photoessay by a firefighter: To Smolder, Burn Slow

What Soybean Politics Tell Us About Argentina and China

Unlocking Access to Ancient Science in Renaissance Italy: the vernacularization of Pliny’s ‘Historia Naturalis’

Afternoon Tea (2/1/19)

The Deep Pathology at the Heart of a Scandal at Der Spiegel

Female directors of color finding a spotlight at Sundance

After More Than Two Decades of Work, a New Hebrew Bible to Rival the King James

The Decision that Lost Britain the War: An Enigma Now Resolved

All The Kissing Author Spotlight: Scarlett Peckham

Afternoon Tea (1/15/19)

The Global Legacy of Quebec’s Subsidized Child Daycare

Fascinating: If True, This Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History

In Praise of Iris Murdoch

The perennial debate about whether your phone is secretly listening to you, explained

David Maurer, the Dean of Criminal Language

Afternoon Tea (1/7/19)

Stalin’s Soaring Moscow Towers Sorely Need Body Work

Mormon Mysteries: Who Are They For?

A New Year’s resolution for everybody: cook more

The Female Badasses Who Made History (Only You Didn’t Know About It) Vol. 1

A Mysterious Linguistic Enclave in Southern Poland

Afternoon Tea (12/10/18)

This is fascinating: Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

Some Words Defy Translation. Angela Merkel Showed Why.

Ariana Grande and Priyanka Chopra don't need fans who send death threats. Fan culture needs a reboot.

Ooh, these all sound interesting: TBRainbow Alert: Heists, Thrillers, and Mysteries

The Playlist: Non-Christmas Music For The Holidays

Afternoon Tea (11/28/18)

This is FASCINATING: This college student created a way for nonbinary people to speak Hebrew

I loved this essay: I'm a Great Cook. Now That I'm Divorced, I'm Never Making Dinner for a Man Again

Here's What College Freshmen Are Reading

'We had to get out': 80 years since the Kindertransport

How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and Became a Cash Cow

Afternoon Tea (11/19/18)

Wow: We Thought We Knew Faith, Until We Didn’t: The making of a white-nationalist poster girl.

Reclaiming our Mohawk heritage, one app-supplied word at a time

A new study further undermines the myth of the “savage” Neanderthal

Should Pregnant Women Take Anti-Anxiety Medication? Some Have No Choice.

Claire Legrand on the Importance of Feminist Horror

Afternoon Tea (10/30/18)

This book is out today and I'm so excited!! The Puzzle, The Solution: Jasmine Guillory on writing “The Proposal”

Inside Colombia's Beloved Candy Factory

This headline really buries the lede and this story is wild: Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?

This is so interesting: How Harry Potter translators made magic in every language

The 12 Best British Detective Shows To Watch This Halloween

Morning Coffee (10/19/18)

FRIDAY HAPPY LINKS YAY.

If you'd like to spend your morning gazing at pictures of Harry and Meghan's current royal tour, the Fug Girls have you covered.

Whoa: Astronomers find most massive structure in the early universe

Norton Signs Graphic Memoir by Olympic Protest Hero Tommie Smith

Oooh, potential Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret movie!

Look at the cover and excerpt from Sandhya Menon's new book!

Oh yay! V.E. Schwab's long out-of-print debut is getting a gorgeous new release

I was wondering about this: The Inside Poop On 'Spoopy'

Pretty excited about Netflix's Christmas movies, especially the Kat Graham one!

What Does Your Favorite Shakespeare Play Say About You? (Richard II, and yeah, it's right on.)

I want all of the Nutcracker nail polish.

Afternoon Tea (9/27/18)

What Fresh Hell Is Barstool Sports?

Are You Asking Me To Talk The ‘Right’ Way Or The ‘White’ Way?

The Power of the International Procedural

Science Reveals How Fruit Keeps A Lid On Ripening Until The Time Is Right

The Most Extraordinary Murder

Afternoon Tea (8/13/18)

Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists

Searching for the French Psychic Behind a $200MM Scam

25 Writers On The Books That Inspired Them To Write

Science’s search for a super banana

A Very Brief History of the Manx Language

Afternoon Tea (6/21/18)

The Hidden Queer History Behind “A League of Their Own”

Can Twitter Save the Dictionary?

This may make you hungry: A Brief History of America’s Appetite for Macaroni and Cheese

A Disgruntled Federal Employee’s 1980s Desk Calendar

This Twitter Account Devoted to Angry Italians Is My Favorite Place Online

Afternoon Tea (5/2/18)

Whoa, rediscovered Zora Neale Hurston nonfiction: The Last Slave

This piece on Ovid is fascinating: Rape, Lost in Translation

The Gripping Stories, and Political Allegories, of China’s Best-Selling Author

The Whisky Chronicles

When Your Workwear Doubles As Armor