Briefingday Edition 2020-08-17

Inside Facebook’s New Power Grab The Life You Thought You Were Going to Have Is Gone Every Presidential Candidate’s Running Mate Since WWII Honey Bees: Life in a Crowd Opinion: Inside the Last-Minute Trump 2020 Reboot Opinion: Our Money Where Our Mouth Is Visualized: Power of the Beirut Blast Space Is Not a Frontier Macro Photography Award Winners AP Photos: Thai Catch Bats to Trace Virus Origins The Swedish Staycation Obsession Lockdown Life-Changers: On 2020 Transformations Gender Diversity in US Congress Japanese Lindberghs Made a 10,000 Mile-Flight in 1937 Best Way to Exercise Self-Control Is Not to Exercise It at All The Decadence and Conflict of Russia’s Turbulent 2010s Dramatic Close-Ups Capture Something Percolating and Exploding The Wonder of Icelandic Turf Houses 50 Years Solo: Eric Clapton Russians Love to Turn Their Cars Into Tanks The 20 Greatest Beach Towns in America WTF Visualizations Bunny Olympics High Jump