OK, kids (and kids at heart), summer vacation isn't just about sleeping in, playing Atari and riding your bikes down to Pop's Corner Store to buy bubble gum and baseball cards. You also need to keep nourishing your mind. So here are a dandy dozen articles of note about national and world events, with some history, sociology and pop culture mixed in.
- Politico: "Think You've Got It Locked, Hillary? Meet Jill Stein." by Bill Scher
- Mother Jones: "My four months as a private prison guard" by Shane Bauer
- NPR: "Inside A Secret Government Warehouse Prepped For Health Catastrophes" by Nell Greenfieldboyce
- BBC: "The Dystopian Lake Filled by the World's Tech Lust: Hidden in an unknown corner of Inner Mongolia is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, consumer gadgets and green tech" by Tim Maughan
- The New York Times Magazine: "How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History" by Jenna Wortham
- NPR: "'O.J.: Made In America' Is About America, Not O.J." by Linda Holmes
- Columbia Journalism Review: "The Fabulist Who Changed Journalism (Janet Cooke)" by Mike Sager
- Quartz: "Why even driving through suburbia is soul crushing" by Alex Balashov
- Smithsonian.com: "Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place" by Daniela Blei
- Literary Hub: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Empty My Shelves" by Alana Massey
- The Washington Post: "The Pakistani American Marvel editor who is trying to make comic books more diverse" by Michael Cavna
- The New York Times Magazine: "Pee-wee’s Big Comeback: After disappearing for nearly three decades, Paul Reubens’s
subversive alter ego returns — and seems more radical than ever" by Jonah Weiner
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