From today’s featured article
Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States. On August 28, 2014, he held a press conference in a tan suit. The suit would go on to have a press cycle of its own.
The White House briefing concerned foreign policy. The jacket was beige enough to generate a second, entirely separate briefing in the minds of cable news producers. (Full article…)
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Did you know …
- … that the white seeds in Seedless Watermelon have been officially classified as “those don’t count”?
- … that Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for an album with its own period?
- … that a standard Hennessy pour is measured by the number of times you say “that’s good”?
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- Wing study ends early after participants eat both specimens.
- Review of the Three-Fifths Compromise comes in at 3/5. Recount pending.
- Communal cup transferred to private ownership in under a minute.
Selected articles
- House slave and field slave describe distinct kinds of coerced labor.
- Clarence Thomas and the RV loan looks at a different sort of proximity to power.
- Explore D.C. go-go, HBCU fifth quarters, and the Chitlin’ Circuit.
- Try the Rap stage-name generator.
- Browse slang and speech, including Jawn and Throwing shade.