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By David Weigel Future Tense Aug 5, 5:41 PM Gorgeous Photos Show Pyrocumulus Clouds and Fighter Jets Over Oregon Wildfires By Eric Holthaus The World Aug 5, 5:37 PM Strange Brew: Canadian Coffee Shop Owners Accused of Spying on North Korea-China Border By Joshua Keating The Slatest Aug 5, 5:01 PM Has the U.S. National Security Apparatus Sprung Another Snowden-Style Leak? By Ben Mathis-Lilley Future Tense Aug 5, 4:54 PM PayPal Vulnerability Exposed by Previously Ignored 17-Year-Old By Lily Hay Newman Brow Beat Aug 5, 4:46 PM Radiohead’s “Creep” Becomes a Vintage Soul Tune By Eliza Berman Politics Aug 5, 4:33 PM Broken Windows Policing Kills People Senseless deaths are a predictable result of cracking down on minor offenses. By Jamelle Bouie Moneybox Aug 5, 4:24 PM Guinness Wants to Woo Americans With a Blonde Lager By Alison Griswold Brow Beat Aug 5, 4:23 PM You May as Well Get Used to 5 Seconds of Summer, the New One Direction. Here’s a Primer. By Dee Lockett Doublex Aug 5, 4:10 PM It Is Good to Be a “Bad” Feminist Roxane Gay’s new book of essays is honest and raw about flaws—hers and ours. By Katy Waldman Moneybox Aug 5, 4:01 PM The Secret Life of a Food Stamp Might Become a Little Less Secret By Krissy Clark Wild Things Aug 5, 4:00 PM This Is What It Looks like to Get Attacked by a Great White Shark (Spoiler Alert: It's Terrifying) By A.J. McCarthy Weigel Aug 5, 3:54 PM Here’s Rand Paul’s Response to That Whole Israel Funding Kerfuffle By David Weigel Outward Aug 5, 3:46 PM Queer Kickstarter: Behind the Scenes of Two LGBTQ Campaigns By June Thomas The XX Factor Aug 5, 3:26 PM Misty Copeland Has the “Wrong Body” for Ballet. More of Those, Please. 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