An increasingly stupid world takes solace in Liz Phair, Quixotic cheese, pink buses, and beaver emojis in this week’s round-up.

The constant emphasis on protecting the interests of “high-skilled” workers neglects everyone else and reveals the myopic biases of some migrants, argues anthropologist Stanley Thangaraj.

As the Central American caravan made its way through Mexico and we learned more about their conditions and efforts by Mexicans on both sides of the border, we continued to ask ourselves, “What would Sócrates do?”

In the summer of 2014, my grandma began digging into the old pile of long-forgotten photographs she hoarded […]