UnKoch My ... Happiness Studies?
RealClearInvestigations
What makes money from the Koch brothers uniquely toxic on campus? Is it, as many progressives claim, part of a plan to hijack American universities by spreading free-market propaganda? Or is hypocritical hysteria at play, not because the Koch foundations do anything different than other foundations, but because they support ideas anathema to liberal academe? Richard Bernstein takes an in-depth look. Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign
New York Times
Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the information she had to offer was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father's candidacy, people with knowledge of the email say. There is no evidence that the promised dirt was related to Russian computer hacking. But the email is likely to be of keen interest to investigators. Seeking Help for Opioid Abuse; Lost in a Circle of Lies
Boston Globe, STAT News
The scams are now so commonplace that fraudsters use a play on words: "Do you want to Blue Cross the country?" Drug users, desperate to break addictions to heroin or pain pills, are being sent to treatment centers hundreds of miles from home for expensive but often shoddy care paid for by premium health insurance benefits procured with fake addresses. They are pawns in a sprawling national network of insurance fraud. He Fought ISIS. Now He's Charged With Terrorism.
The Intercept
When Josh Walker returned from Syria, British police were waiting for him. The 26-year old student had spent six months fighting alongside Kurdish fighters and imported Westerners like himself against ISIS. But the problem was not so much his Mideast sojourn as his reading interests. Walker had kept sections of the 1971 homemade explosives guide "The Anarchist Cookbook" in his bedroom. Now he awaits an October counterterrorism trial. Inside the L.A. Clinic Using Ketamine for Stressed-Out Techies
Los Angeles Magazine
Is this the ultimate brain hack? For decades, ketamine has been the basis of a widely used anaesthetic as well as the club drug Special K. But some researchers are exploring a new use for the hallucination-inducing medication: combatting depression. At a clinic that caters to stressed techies and L.A. high rollers, infusions are already under way. Have You Seen D.C.'s Missing Liberty Bell?
Daily Beast
Two decades after President John F. Kennedy said Pennsylvania Avenue was looking a bit shabby, the bureaucracy got around to a street beautification project. Step one was getting monuments out of the way so cleaners had some elbow room. A statue of Benjamin Franklin and the Temperance Fountain were relocated. But when the D.C. Liberty Bell replica was moved, it vanished -- and its whereabouts remain unknown to this day. | 
