• Here’s what Putin doesn’t understand.
• Current record for a New York City taxi medallion: just under $1 million.
• When empires retreat: The new new world order.
• The hunt for the lost white male Democratic voter.
• James Ellroy: “I hate hipsters, I hate liberals, I hate rock’n’rollers, I hate the counter-culture, I hate movie people. I want to go somewhere quiet, peaceful and decorous, and be radical in my mind.”
• Adam Driver as Boris, and other casting ideas for The Goldfinch: The Movie.
• Print and read: The murders that preceded the Boston bombings.
• Bonus print and read: Rick Perry and the Texas miracle that ain’t.