What we read while adding “infallibility” to our résumés…
- A fascinating story about the soldier who shot Osama bin Laden.
- Yesterday was Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday, and Wright Thompson turned in a great profile on his life after basketball. Sports Illustrated published an oral history of his most famous dunk, but really it was a moment to reflect on Space Jam. Craig Ehlo on what it was like to guard Jordan.
- The Pope announced his retirement. How will he be remembered? And how does that crazy conclave work?
- Elizabeth Warren wondered why there have been no prosecutions of Wall Street banks. Matt Taibbi says that some banks are now simply too big to prosecute. Instead, they are still getting bailouts. And in other news of a corrupt banking industry, credit reports are apparently full of errors.
- Something is ruining steak.
- Grantland looked at Dan Harmon’s life after Community.
- On Ken Pomeroy. And Pomeroy on why you shouldn’t be so quick to foul up three late in the game.
- Some analyses of the legal and ethical defenses of the American drone program. Is it worse than torture?
- A tragic story on the death of a Nazi (it’s not what you think).
- The coolest winner of the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament.
- An analysis of Darth Vader’s terrible plan in the Battle of Hoth.
- How to win Monopoly in four moves.
