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England’s National Portrait Gallery Refuses Million-Dollar Sackler Donation, the First Major Art Institution to Do So Due to Opioid Crisis

The move could mark a shift in institutions willingness to accept money from a family implicated by the opioid crisis.

The Overthinker’s Guide to Picking Your Bracket

How Andrew Cuomo, climate change, and coin-flips can bring you March Madness glory (or not).

Plagiarism is a Disservice to Both Readers and the Original Author. But Should It Doom a Book as a Whole?

Yeah, we’re talking about Jill Abramson’s Merchants of Truth.

What the Media Missed in Its Beto Backlash: How Much Americans Still Love White, Male Candidates

Beto’s fundraising is a big rebuke to the grousing in elite circles about his candidacy.

Alan Krueger Was the Rare Economist Whose Work Improved the Lives of Millions

Alan was instrumental in the push to make economics an empirical science, something that has touched every corner of the discipline.

Democrats Have Long Been Terrified of the White Moderate. Elizabeth Warren Apparently Has No Such Fear.

Warren, in a CNN town hall, endorses reparations in terms very similar to those used by Ta-Nehisi Coates in a new interview.

Netflix Is Testing a New Way of Showing TV Episodes to Its Users

The anthology series Love, Death & Robots will appear differently to different viewers.

FBI Sought to Use Michael Cohen’s Fingerprints and Face to Unlock Apple Devices

We’ve reached the biometrics stage of the Cohen case.

Seth Meyers Lists All the Dumb Things Donald Trump Tweeted About This Weekend and It’s Breathtaking

In the sense that it’ll make you wish you had never drawn breath.

Rep. Devin Nunes Sues Twitter and Individual Users, Including @DevinNunesMom, for Defamation

The suit says it was Nunes’ online mom that caused the California congressman’s 2018 reelection bid to be so close.