Weekend Reading: November 18, 2016

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In Helsinki you may not even need to own a car by 2025.
What the Times‘s sports page would have looked like if the Cubs hadn’t won the World Series.
Attacking art galleries to stop gentrification.
If you earn over $52,000 a year, that means in global terms, you are now in the one percent. Welcome!
What was it like working as Stanley Kubrick’s assistant for decades? Just about what you’d imagine.
No, his own party doesn’t know what Trump is going to do, either.
All hail the alt-right’s victorious “god-emperor.“
It could like 1877, all over again.
Print and read: The militias on the southern U.S. border looking for thrills and an opportunity to go “hunting Mexicans.”

Weekend Reading: November 11, 2016

Scream your worries away in this Cairo bookstore.
And here’s what the world is thinking.
The new White House chief of staff just might be the architect of modern Internet white rage.
Didn’t Nixon have an enemies list, too?
Can we just be done with polling, finally?
Apparently this all makes the Klan happy.
And then this happened.
The safety net depended on by so many Trump voters is about to get eviscerated.
Well, that just might be it for the Constitution.
Print and read: This is what America chose.

So, has the whale exploded yet?
Drunkards and the British Isles, a brief history.
The drones are coming! And other tales of idiocy from the Nevada militia hootenanny.
Glorious things that won’t happen after he takes Letterman’s spot: Colbert vs. the anti-vaccinators.
City living, now with more sinking.
America, circa 2014: the isolationists have it.
Poison, rust, and danger: the shipbreakers of Bangladesh.
Bourbon, misogyny, and the fairer sex.
Weapons to Syrian rebels probably are ending up in the hands of extremists.
Abuse complaints: Undertrained and trigger-happy, the Border Patrol now “a virtual interior police force.“
The vast right-wing conspiracy is almost twenty years old.
Eating bananas for racial equality.
Alaska’s famed half-governor wants to waterboard for Jesus.
Study: When whites read about the growing minority population, they actually show “higher levels of racial bias“.
The thing once known as the “Magic Cube,” forty years on.
Print and read: The one banker who went to jail for the financial crisis.