The True Issue With Netanyahu’s Speech About the Holocaust

The Israeli prime minister’s inflammatory speech is more troubling than it may appear on the surface; Russian politicians are attempting to make it illegal to come out as gay; Bernie Sanders could use American history to explain socialism.

These discoveries and more below.

The Real Problem With Netanyahu’s Mufti Speech
By calling the Palestinians Nazis, the Israeli prime minister was saying they can never be negotiated with — that Israel must fight them to the bloody end.

Russian Lawmakers Propose Legislation To Criminalize Coming Out As Gay
Things keep getting worse for LGBT people in Russia.

Kim Jong Il and Betty Windsor—Birthday Buddies?
BBC footage of the Queen’s birthday, but with sneering BBC commentary about Kim Jong Il’s birthday dubbed over it. The lovely irony.

More Crappy News for Pharma Bro. His $750 Drug Just Got a $1 Competitor
The news just keeps getting worse for greedy pharma bro Martin Shkreli. San Diego-based Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced this week that it will be producing an alternative to Daraprim.

The Darknet: Is the Government Destroying ‘the Wild West of the Internet?’
Inside the Web’s secret space for drug dealers, arms traffickers, hackers and political dissidents.

Why Benjamin Netanyahu’s Defense of Hitler Is So Wrong — and Matters So Much
Once the laughter and groans have died down, the unorthodox version of Holocaust history offered by Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem the other day confronts us with a deeply unsettling question: What to make of the fact that the Jewish state, of all places, has a Holocaust revisionist for a prime minister?

Tech Companies & Internet Activists Oppose Cybersecurity Bill
Dozens of the America’s biggest tech companies are criticising a proposed US cybersecurity bill that they fear does not offer privacy adequate protections to their users.

How My In-Flight Wi-Fi Turned Out to Be a Big, Fat ‘Gotcha’
I know in-flight Wi-Fi prices have increased recently, but $300 for one cross-country round trip?

The New York Times vs. Amazon
Something rather amazing recently happened.

The Stealthy, Eric Schmidt-Backed Startup That’s Working to Put Hillary Clinton in the White House
An under-the-radar startup funded by billionaire Eric Schmidt has become a major technology vendor for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, underscoring the bonds between Silicon Valley and Democratic politics.

The New China Syndrome: American Business Meets Its New Master
It’s May Day, and a rambunctious crowd of well-dressed people, many carrying blue and yellow parasols, has pushed into a Ford dealership just north of Chongqing, China.

Unfinished Story … How the Ellipsis Arrived in English Literature
A Cambridge academic claims to have found the first use of a ‘brilliant innovation’ that has endured as a mark of incomplete speech.

Next From Christo: Art That Lets You Walk on Water
It’s been a decade since those 16 days in February 2005 when the artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed 7,500 gates along Central Park’s walkways, each adorned with shimmering saffron-colored panels creating what Christo described as “a golden river appearing and disappearing through the branches of the trees.”

Trudeau’s Walk on the Bright Side of Canada
What happened on Monday night in Canada was, to use words not often associated with my homeland, astonishing, astounding, and even, in its way, as one of my wife’s Western Canadian relatives might say, “quite the soap opera.”

How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Democratic Socialism
Instead of looking to Europe, Sanders could evoke the rich heritage of American radicalism.

Highly Religious Americans Are Less Likely Than Others to See Conflict Between Faith and Science
Highly religious Americans are less likely than others to see conflict between faith and science.

How Wikipedia Is Hostile to Women
Some female editors have been the target of harassment from their male colleagues—and the gender bias has spilled over into the site’s content, too.

You Wouldn’t Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem
It’s safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty price tag, and they are uncommonly vulnerable to unjust adaptation and outright theft.

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