WEEKEND READING (Oct. 21, 2016).

Cigar worker(s), Cuba.

Right wing extremists are a bigger threat to America than ISIS (Newsweek).

Stephen Hawking: Greed and stupidity are what will end the human race (The Intellectualist).

Germany reunified 26 years ago, but some divisions are still strong (Washington Post).

How Congress quietly overhauled its insider-trading law (NPR).

TRUMP OR CLINTON?
How America's $19.6 trillion debt would rise or fall under Trump or Clinton (Fiscal Times).

Hillary Clinton for President of the United States (Foreign Policy).


THINKING ABOUT TRUMP
Comedian Jim Jefferies exposes the truth about Donald Trump (Policy.Mic).

Trump's one public service was exposing the misogyny of the GOP (NY Magazine).

The question no one is asking about Donald Trump (Washington Post).

The governing cancer of our time (David Brooks / NY Times).

Trump's refusal to accept the results of the election is not 'suspense' - it's treason (Reverb Press).


UNDERSTANDING TRUMP & HIS (WALKING DEAD) SUPPORTERS
Bakersfield: the parallel-universe where Donald Trump is still surging (The Guardian).

The 7 stages of grief when a loved one supports Trump (Scary Mommy).

Why facts don't matter to Trump's supporters (Washington Post).

Donald Trump, the worst of America (NY Times).

RACE IN AMERICA
Albert Einstein: The Negro Question (1946) (On Being).

What, Congressman Steve King asks, have nonwhites done for civilization (NY Times)?

White Americans long for the 1950s, when they didn't face so much discrimination (Washington Post).

Racism, conservatism, and low I.Q. go hand in hand, according to study (Psychology Today).

GUNS & THE NRA
Dallas mayor calls Bulls**t on open carry: It didn't help during shooting, and made things worse (If You Only News).

Why black lives don't matter to the NRA (Think Progress).

Instead of arguing about guns on Twitter, Neil de Grasse Tyson just laid out the numbers (Upworthy).


MISCELLANEOUS
Cops: Minnesota mom beat and starved enslaved nanny from China (USA Today).

Meet the for-profit company training police to shoot without hesitation (U.S. Uncut).

The 7 biggest deadbeat states who mooch off taxpayers all vote Republican (Politics USA).

History tells us what may happen next with Brexit & Trump (Medium)

Comcast fined $2.3 million for improperly charging customers (NPR).

- Mark