Need some lunch-time, hammock or survival-cabin reads for the summer? Here you go, with Papergreat's latest roundup of journalism and essays from around the Internet.
Heavy Stuff
- The New York Times: "How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country" by Hiroko Tabuchi
- The New Yorker: "Climate Change and the Giant Iceberg Off Greenland’s Shore" by Carolyn Kormann
- Politico: "Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together" by Annie Karni
- New York magazine: "Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler? A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion" by Jonathan Chait
- The New York Review of Books: "'Studies in Power': An Interview with Robert Caro" by Claudia Dreifus
- The New York Times: "Can a DNA Database Save the Trees? These Scientists Hope So" by Sandra E. Garcia
- ProPublica: "Hundreds of Illinois Children Languish in Psychiatric Hospitals After They’re Cleared For Release" by Duaa Eldeib
- NiemanLab: "Newsonomics: Newsprint tariffs are a Black Swan event that could speed up the death of U.S. newspapers" by Ken Doctor
- BBC News: "Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men" by Bethan Bell
Less-Heavy Stuff
- The Washington Post: "US Postal Service must pay $3.5M after confusing Statue of Liberty with 'sexier' Las Vegas replica" by Avi Selk
- CityLab: "The Strange, Enduring Charm of Japan’s Civic Mascots" by Chris Carlier
- Ars Technica: "The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century" by Jimmy Maher
- The Digital Antiquarian: "The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization" by Jimmy Maher
- The New York Times: "Can't Sleep? Let Bob Ross Help You Find Some Happy Little Zzzs" by Laura M. Holson
- 99% Invisible: "MPR Raccoon: Exploring the Urban Architecture Behind an Antisocial Climber" by Kurt Kohlstedt
- We Are The Mutants: "'Olly Olly Oxen Free!': The Generational Politics of 1980s “Fountain of Youth” Films" by Michael Grasso
- TheOutline.com: "Looking back at Chuck Klosterman’s 'Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs'" by Noah Davis
- Atlas Obscura: "Inside the World's Only Sourdough Library" by Anne Ewbank
- The Paris Review: "The Rare Women in the Rare-Book Trade" by Diane Mehta
- LancasterOnline: "Why has a head stared from an attic window in Peach Bottom for more than 100 years?" by Tom Knapp
- Chicago Tribune: "Revisiting a portrait of immigrant life in the Robin Williams film 'Moscow on the Hudson'" by Nina Metz
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