HACKING GIVES FINAL JOLT TO FRANCE'S CHAOTIC RACE
"Saturday was a surreal day in France."
"Even if Mr. Macron wins handily, as projected, his victory will chiefly reflect voters' opposition to Ms. Le Pen and the National Front. The party remains anathema to large parts of the French electorate, in view of its history of anti-Semitism, racism, and apologias for France's collaborators with the Nazis."
A4
THOUSANDS IN MOSCOW CHANT "RUSSIA WITHOUT PUTIN"
"The protest on Saturday, and those before it, posed no serious threat to Mr. Putin, who enjoys strong approval ratings ..."
One step at a time.
A5
GOVERNOR'S DEFEAT IN JAKARTA SHOWS RISE OF ISLAMISTS
"[I]n recent years, the radical Muslims who have been trying to turn Indonesia into a strict Islamic state have gradually gained influence, accruing an array of significant victories."
"[T]he Islamists were part of a broad coalition led by ... a former general ... it also included Christians, among them Hary Tanoesoedibjo, a billionaire businessman who is Mr. Trump's business partner in Indonesia and has his own ambitions for national office."
Try to connect them dots -- if you can!
A6
IN CHINA, THE PARTY KEEPS THE BAND GOING
"The most shared post on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform:
'I'm 15 today. Thanks for being with me all these years.'
... shared more than 335 million times."
Comprop. But -- hey -- it's got a nice beat and you can dance to it.
A8
NIGERIAN GIRLS ARE FREED FROM BOKO HARAM
"[E]ven with the dozens believed to be released on Saturday, well over 100 girls are still thought to be in Boko Haram's clutches ..."
I hope Michelle Obama continues to publicly support the international campaign to bring the girls home.
SR1
BRING ON THE WALL
"When asked whether the border wall promised by President Trump will stop smugglers, he smiles. 'This is never going to stop, neither the narco trafficking nor the illegals,' he says. 'There will be more tunnels. More holes. If it doesn't go over, it will go under.'"
And a big beautiful bunch of bigly suffering.
SR3
HILLARY CLINTON'S ABSOLUTION
"Etiquette and precedent suggest that someone in her vanquished position show some restraint and respect, but you may have noticed that etiquette and precedent have lost much of their currency in the Age of Trump. I'm not suggesting that she or Barack Obama descend to Trump's level, but they do have greater leeway to pipe up than they would with another president. Greater cause, too. She should indeed pipe up, and not only in an occasional barbed tweet."
Of course, neither Clinton nor Obama is capable of descending to Trump's level. Thank God.
SR4
WHY MY FATHER VOTES FOR LE PEN
A heart-breaking story about how poverty and politics estranged father and son.
"In the absence of any attempt by the left to discuss his suffering, my father latched on to the false explanations offered by the far right."
SR9
TOO SEXY TO SURVIVE
Not natural selection -- but mate choice! Fascinating!
SR11
TRUMP: HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH
"The Republicans now have a pre-existing condition: They voted for something that will cause them a lot of pain in the future."
SR11
HOUSE REPUBLICANS GO OFF THE CLIFF
"Over the last seven years, the Republican Party has engaged in increasingly elaborate political suicide attempts ... [T]hen, after all its prior efforts at seppuku failed, the party nominated Donald Trump for the presidency.
You know how that turned out."
Not yet, Ross, not yet ...
SR12
DON'T LET FACEBOOK MAKE YOU MISERABLE
"It is now official. Scholars have analyzed the data and confirmed what we already knew in our hearts. Social media is making us miserable."
Uh -- don't let Facebook make you miserable.
ST1
STILL TAKING THAT LONG, STRANGE TRIP
"[S]cientists from schools like Johns Hopkins ad N.Y.U. were the main attraction, bringing evidence to the medical case for psychedelics like psilocybin ... to assuage end-of-life anxiety, to help deepen meditation practices, to search for the shared underpinnings of spiritual life, and -- in a new study -- to explore a possible treatment for severe depression."
ST2
NO, GRANDMA, YOU ARE NOT LOL
Sorry if we embarrass you, kids.
TR8
THE WORD BREATHTAKING COMES TO MIND
"I was looking for a truly excellent view of the city, and was not going to be deterred. I followed yet another uneven, winding stone staircase in a section of northeastern Cuzco, the ancient Incan capital that sits snugly in an Andean mountain valley in Peru. It wasn't more than a couple of dozen stairs, but I was feeling it. I thought, I'm not that out of shape, am I? I was huffing and puffing, and my heart was beating a little faster and higher up in my chest than expected. I paused and took a deep breath of the thin, chill air."
I know someone who's already kicked this off their bucket list. Sounds amazing.
TIME MACHINE
MAY 7, 1932
85 years ago
"Japan does not want any Chinese territory. I am sure when all the facts are before the people of the United States, they will agree that the Japanese want world peace, and peace in China."
And you thought alternative facts was something new?
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