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Suggested Reading of 2018

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December 2018:

>>> Jonathan Rauch's "The Constitution of Knowledge" (National Affairs)
Andrew Sullivan's essay "America's New Religions" (New York Magazine)
China's audacious global propaganda campaign (Guardian)
Eat bread, pasta, salad and fruit (BBC)
How to fix Congress (Atlantic)

November 2018:

Life in Xinjiang's reeducation camps (NPR)
Pension reform in China (LeMonde Diplomatique)
>>> Jacob Silverman's "Silicon Valley’s Chinese Dream" (Baffler)
The new capitalist Chinese nationalism (New York Times)
The US government assessment of climate change (US government)
Trump is sabotaging legal immigration (New York Times)
Turkey is #1 in fake news (BBC)
The Decline of Sex among Young People (Atlantic)
Europe's data protection law causing big economic loss (Illinois Institute of Technology)
North Korea has secret missile bases not disclosed by Trump (New York Times)
Saudi journalist tortured to death (Middle East Monitor)
Fascinating statistics: the #1 killer of humans is the mosquito, and the #2 is... Homo Sapiens (Statista)
China is helping African countries control the Internet (Quartz)
>>>Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen (New York Times)
Yet another controversy on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin Exchange)

October 2018:

Torture is widespread in Russian prisons
Very fat and very thin people lose 4 years of life expectancy (Lancet)
China's Supermicro hardware hack (Bloomberg)
>>> “The Silent Revolution in Reverse: Trump and the Xenophobic Authoritarian Populist Parties” (Ronald Inglehart, Jon Miller and Logan Woods)
Saudi trolls disparage dissidents on the web (New York Times)
The Mediterranean diet prolongs life (National Institute of Health)
Israel detains critics (New York Times)
Damage to cognitive development from use of marijuana (Psychiatry Online)

September 2018:

August 2018:

Sugars, refined grains and potatoes increase heart diseases (Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
>>> Xu Zhangrun attacks president Xi (China Heritage)
Will the Republican Party impeach Trump? (Atlantic)
Trump is guilty of at least one proven crime (Atlantic)
Alcohol kills - strong association between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer, injuries, and infectious diseases (Lancelet)
Low-carb diet kills (Lancelet)
The rise of the ultra-racists on Fox News (Atlantic)
Does China face a looming debt crisis? (China Power)

July 2018:

Why Germany can't buy natural gas from the USA (Wall Street Journal)
Sayragul Sauytbay, a Chinese national and an ethnic Kazakh who crossed illegally into Kazakhstan, testifies in court about the reeducation camps for Uygurs in China's northwestern Xinjiang Province (Human Rights Watch)
Carbon dioxide emissions are accelerating plant growth (UC Merced)
The Trump tax-cut is pushing the federal deficit to $1 trillion (New York Times)
Financial crisis in China caused by P2P (Bloomberg)
Vaccine scandal in China (Radio Free Asia)
The percentage of Republicans who perceive Russia as a friendl has doubled since 2014 from 22% to 40% (Gallup)
Celebrating the Russian interference in US elections (The Atlantic)
Saturated fats (cheese, milk, butter) do not reduce life expectancy (The Atlantic)

June 2018:

Are humans the only sentient beings in the universe? (Anders Sandberg)
Chinese investment in Israel (Jerusalem Post)
A.I. in China (Yiou)
How Putin revolutionized information warfare (The Atlantic)
The Kock brothers are killing public transportation in the USA (New York Times)

May 2018:

April 2018:

Plastic particles found in 93% of bottled water (CBC)

March 2018:

Caloric restriction slows aging (Division of Clinical Sciences Pennington, Biomedical Research Center)
Plastic particles found in bottled water (BBC)
Most tweets are fake news (The Atlantic)

February 2018:

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani scientists who created the first black market for nuclear bombs (Foreign Affairs)
What is Putin up to? (Bloomberg)

January 2018:

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