Headlines from June 26, 2014

Detroit water authority turns off water at 3,000 households; residents ask the UN to intervene.
The traditional medicines of human rights activism—exposés, media attention, and pressure…are falling short.
More than 100 cities and counties have refused to honor the ICE’s requests to detain undocumented immigrants.
North Korea saber-rattles over The Interview; if it premieres, “a merciless counter-measure will be taken.”
He is without question the most popular human being alive today. On the people’s Pope. #longreads
What if being less of a douchebag was good for your career? The case against self-promotion.
In 2006, tiny World Cup flags on cars resulted in an extra 3 million kilograms of carbon emissions in England.
Amazon pushes for new conditions that would cripple the publishing industry.
Zoos are drugging animals to combat mental illness brought on by the unnatural habitat.
FDA recalls food.
Stunning photographs of grand European ruins, taken by a Polish history teacher. #photos
Columbusing: When white people “discover” things. #video
Neanderthals, they’re just like us: 50,000-year-old poop reveals that our ancestors ate a balanced diet.
Using the Bechdel Test and describing characters as “manic pixie dream girls” is reductive and not useful. #opinions
The Vision Festival is an epicenter of avant-garde jazz, but to thrive they’ll need a younger audience.
Cain claims that Prince asked if it was okay that “Purple Rain” makes use of the same chords as “Faithfully.”
The Economist‘s editorial cartoonist on creating 140 covers for the magazine in his career.
Gregg shorthand, a long out-of-use way of compressing language, is quick and nearly flawless.
Diane has always been nervous, self-deprecating, so maybe in the world of character, this communitarian gesture…is also in character.