
Dara Lind
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Baltimore’s police secretly surveilled the entire city.

Colombia signs the peace deal that ends its 52-year civil war; the alt-right, explained; Donald Trump’s latest immigration wriggling, inexplicable.

He was supposed to spend the week hammering his strongest issue. Instead, he’s spent the week hinting he might flip-flop on it.


Wavering Republicans are still looking for a reason to vote Trump.

The most important planetary discovery of our lifetimes (probably); a surprisingly deadly earthquake in Italy; the American university in Kabul, under attack.

The federal government rules that grad students at private universities are allowed to form unions; another drug pricing scandal; Nigeria (might have) (again) killed the head of Boko Haram.

A horrifying attack in Turkey and its aftermath; the Clinton Foundation plans to wind down (if Hillary is elected); Virginia gives the right to vote back to 13,000 people.

Donald Trump led a revolution on immigration within the GOP. He can’t stop it now.

New Zika warnings; how the relief effort in Louisiana (the one not involving photo ops) is going; South Sudan is recruiting child soldiers, which is never a good sign.

The Department of Justice will wind down its contracts with 13 private prisons; the era of self-driving cars will begin later this month in Pittsburgh; RIP, Gawker.com.