Headlines from August 3, 2015

Obama to unveil tough environmental regulations, attempting to stake out an uncompromising position.
Monday’s Clean Power Plan announcement is one step, not a giant leap, for climate action.
In the new age of espionage, old-style human spying proves useful against advanced cryptography.
Profile of Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson and now can’t find a job. #longreads
Zimbabwe accuses additional American doctor of killing a lion illegally this year.
A great proportion of “British” troops were not British at all. Britain didn’t fight the second world war, the British empire did.
Robot decapitated in Philadelphia after successful hitchhiking across Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands.
See also: Quirky smartphones of China.
Year of the Woman, a “lost” documentary of second-wave feminism at its political peak, returns after 42 years.
William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter gets Cosmo covered up at RiteAid, Hannaford, and Food Lion.
India’s Supreme Court repeatedly—and frighteningly—cites “collective conscience” to determine when to confirm death sentences.
Some people feel music so strongly the sensations are called “skin orgasms,” which may explain why many find shiver-inducing songs addictive.
Notes toward Alexander Chee’s unfolding essay collection.
See also: “Annie Dillard and The Writing Life,” notes on Chee’s time studying with Annie Dillard.
Final scene in the David Foster Wallace movie shows him dancing in a church—a lie he told journalists to cover his 12-step programs.
Before I die, I hope there will be a veritable Tom Cruise Studies. Really impossible: theorizing Tom Cruise.