Recommended Reading (10/21/24)

Moldova votes to stick with E.U. despite reports of Russian interference (WaPo)

Award-winning Ukrainian journalist dies in Russian captivity, Kyiv says (NPR)

White House aims to eliminate out-of-pocket spending on birth control for most Americans (The 19th*)

India and China agree to de-escalate border tensions (BBC)

Vietnam Revives Power-Sharing Arrangement With New President (NYT)

Oh come on: Two Republican candidates sue Goffstown library over election questionnaire (NHPR)

! No needles required: The FDA approves an at-home flu vaccine (NPR)

A Monday pick-me-up: All calls of Juan Soto's go-ahead home run in Game 5 (MLB)

The testing of AI in medicine is a mess. Here’s how it should be done (Nature)

Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ under Thomas Hardy’s home given protected status (The Guardian)

Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation (The New Yorker)

“With alarm, Your Scholar,” and other excellent sign-offs from Emily Dickinson’s letters. (LitHub)

Recommended Reading (10/16/24)

Captured documents reveal Hamas’s broader ambition to wreak havoc on Israel (WaPo)

Good: Georgia judge counters GOP-led state election board on certification and hand counts (NPR)

Lilly Ledbetter, Whose Fight for Equal Pay Changed U.S. Law, Dies at 86 (NYT)

North Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean roads as tensions with South Korea soar (NPR)

Race to combat mpox misinformation as vaccine rollout in DRC begins (The Guardian)

First significant snowfall arrives atop Mount Washington (NHPR)

Exclusive: Remains of Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine believed to have been found on Everest (National Geographic)

How Originalism Ate the Law (Slate)

One N.H. town is trying to decarbonize their buildings — and build a workforce in the process (WBUR)

Hypochondria Never Dies (The Atlantic)

How an Ex-N.B.A. Player Is Diversifying Wine One Sip at a Time (NYT)

A Secret Letter to the KGB Turned A Lost Family History Into a Novel (Electric Lit)

Recommended Reading (10/11/24)

These maps and images show what's left of Gaza, 1 year into the Israel-Hamas war (NPR)

As Telegram's Popularity Soars, Is It 'A Spy In Every Ukrainian's Pocket'? (RFE)

A firehose of antisemitic disinformation from China is pointing at two Republican legislators (WaPo)

Good: NH Sec. of State orders use of affidavit ballots on Election Day, despite law’s conflicting dates (NHPR)

NPR Exclusive: U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives (NPR)

Raffi's Guide to Fighting Fascism (Mother Jones)

Google Is Playing a Dangerous Game With AI Search (The Atlantic)

Lost GK Chesterton essay about detective stories published for first time (The Guardian)

Inside the beauty pageant in one of the world’s worst places to be a woman (BBC)

Mastering the Art of Making a Cookbook (The New Yorker)

How do you build without over polluting? That's the challenge of new Catan board game (NPR)

460 Years Ago, Shakespeare Was Born Here. Or Somewhere. (NYT)

Recommended Reading (10/9/24)

1 year after Hamas attacked Israel, the conflict grows more dangerous than ever (NPR)

Officials face antisemitic attacks over Hurricane Helene response (WaPo)

Tricked into conversion therapy in Russia for being trans (BBC)

I see: Trump secretly sent Putin COVID-19 tests during pandemic shortage, a new book reports (NPR)

Victor Ambros, Upper Valley native, wins Nobel Prize (NHPR)

What Is Wagner Doing in Africa? (The Atlantic)

Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’ (The Guardian)

(Yes this has been sitting in my bookmarks since Passover and it's now almost Yom Kippur, but it's still interesting!) With a Fresh Look and Recipes, Manischewitz Courts a New Generation (NYT)

Startups want to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight. There are few rules and big risks (NPR)

This is extremely wholesome: I’ll Sign Your Baseball if You Sign Mine (NYT)

The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life (Quanta)

From Austen to Larkin: Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria (LitHub)

Recommended Reading (10/7/24)

The Israeli village grieving the biggest loss from Oct. 7, one year later (NPR)

The Israel–Hamas conflict one year on: researcher resilience in the face of war (Nature)

Rabbi Danya on the anniversary today: "...a being whose anguish may reach the heart of God." (Life Is a Sacred Text)

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius (BBC)

The scale of Helene’s devastating impacts are eye-popping, even from space (NPR)

Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library (The Guardian)

The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary Tale (Intelligencer)

California heat has immigration activists bracing for a humanitarian crisis (NPR)

Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor. (NYT)

Batting Average Is Dead (BP)

Tracing the Long, Winding Path of an Ancient Roman Aqueduct (NYT)

Mountain Lions in NH? Some locals believe the big cats still roam the Granite State (NHPR)

Recommended Reading (10/4/24)

October 7th anniversary weighs heavy as Jews enter the High Holy Days (NPR)

Six hours at hands of Hamas - new accounts reveal how Israeli base fell on 7 October (BBC)

5 things to know about Mexico's first female president (NPR)

Housing is big in NH governor race — and Ayotte and Craig both have skin in the game (NHPR)

Biden’s green policies will save 200,000 lives and have boosted clean energy jobs, data shows (The Guardian)

! Montana man gets 6 months in prison for cloning giant sheep and breeding it (AP)

Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us? (NYT)

Taxpayers Are About to Subsidize a Lot More Sports Stadiums (The Atlantic)

Legacies of Eugenics: An Introduction (LARB)

Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe (NYT)

Once an MLB bust, Travis Snider now hopes to change youth sports’ toxic culture (The Athletic)

Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames (Artnet)

Recommended Reading (10/1/24)

A periodic reminder that Guardian liveblogs tend to be good (and free) for breaking news. Here's today's for the Middle East.

Gaza: Why is it so hard to establish the death toll? (Nature)

Good: Haitian group seeks charges against Trump and Vance over false Springfield claims (NPR)

Good! League of Women Voters, ACLU file suit to block NH’s new voter ID law (NHPR)

Go dockworkers, obviously: Dockworkers go on strike, snarling traffic at East and Gulf Coast ports (NPR)

The Antisemitic Revolution on the American Right (The Atlantic)

Scottish bog gets world heritage status (BBC)

Yeahhhhh: ‘Nobody Wants This’ Creator Erin Foster Wasn’t Thinking ‘Too Much’ About the Show’s Depiction of Jewish Women (Hey Alma)

When U.S. Diplomats Visit China, Meal Choices Are About More Than Taste Buds (NYT)

Singapore’s Foragers Find More Than Food in the Sidewalk Cracks (Eater)

How Jim Hickey and Sean Doolittle transformed Nats pitching together (WaPo)

But Why a Penguin? (JSTOR Daily)

Recommended Reading (9/26/24)

An exception for breaking news because I'm riveted: Eric Adams Live Updates: Adams Is Charged With Bribery and Fraud (NYT)

U.S. and allies call for an immediate 21-day cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah (NPR)

‘We are all in disbelief’: How the New Hampshire National Guard failed to protect female soldiers (CNN)

Churches don’t have to be accessible. That’s a voting rights problem. (LGBTQ Nation)

Trump gutted federal employee unions. They believe he'd do it again (NPR)

The Hague becomes world’s first city to pass law banning fossil fuel-related ads (The Guardian)

What Can ‘Green Islam’ Achieve in the World’s Largest Muslim Country? (NYT)

Steven Kwan’s rise from pinball wizard to the Guardians’ humble hitting savant (The Athletic)

The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting (The Atlantic)

The English Farmers Who Harvest Rhubarb by Candlelight (Smithsonian)

A new generation is uncovering the tiny doodles left by engineers on old microchips (NPR)

Oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form found in urn with Roman remains (The Guardian)

Recommended Reading (9/24/24)

'We just had to flee': Fear and tension in Lebanon under deadly Israeli bombardment (BBC)

Bomb threats followed Trump's false claims about Springfield. Some Haitians may leave (NPR)

Related: Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric (The Guardian)

A GOP push to change how Nebraska awards its electoral votes appears to have stalled (NPR)

CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December (Ars Technica)

Far Right’s Ties to Russia Sow Rising Alarm in Germany (NYT)

Black Capitalism and the City (Places)

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Marine Conservation (Smithsonian)

On Himalayan Hillsides Grows Japan’s Cold, Hard Cash (NYT)

The Mysteries of Plant 'Intelligence' (The Atlantic)

How did 29 MLB teams pass on Orioles superstar Gunnar Henderson? (Yahoo! Sports)

Crime Novels with a Sense of Place and Manners (CrimeReads)

Recommended Reading (9/23/24)

Marxist Dissanayake wins Sri Lanka's presidential election as voters reject old guard (NPR)

Sudanese rebels appear to be posting self-incriminating videos of torture and arson on social media (The Guardian)

Did exploding pagers attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon violate international law? (NPR)

Inside connections, outside money: How Goodlander swept to big primary win (NHPR)

Sounds great, no notes: Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI (WaPo)

Genome Sequencing Provides Latest Evidence Against Easter Island’s Societal Collapse (Gizmodo)

Lloyd Kaufman, Who Saw Answers Behind the ‘Moon Illusion,’ Dies at 97 (NYT gift link)

A Uniquely French Approach to Environmentalism (The Atlantic)

New Zealanders Are Crazy for This Fruit. It’s Not the Kiwi. (NYT)

Sarah Perry: ‘For much of my life, I loved God. The echo of that never fades’ (The Guardian)

Inside Twins closer Jhoan Duran’s ‘badass’ walkout entrance, ‘the WWE event for baseball’ (The Athletic)

Spain’s ‘Excalibur’ Sword, a 1,000-Year-Old Weapon Found Buried Upright, Reflects the Region’s Rich Islamic History (Smithsonian)