Fans of J.G. Ballard and the like may enjoy this story of the ruins of the tourism industry on Egypt’s Sinai Coast, where empty swimming pools and uncompleted luxury resorts line the beaches. The short version: tourism took the land from the local Bedouin population, and the revolution took it away from tourism.

A Brooklyn attorney, Carrie Goldberg, has asked the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice to open a joint investigation into the New York City Department of Education, alleging an “epidemic” of administrative malpractice when it comes to sex crimes in city schools.

Early on Wednesday morning, Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, was arrested at his Bronx home on federal corruption charges. According to the New York Daily News, Seabrook, who has blocked reforms at Rikers Island, was under investigation for allegedly receiving kickbacks from a hedge fund that work with the union.

Shortly before midnight, The White House announced that President Obama had personally spoken to both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Tuesday evening, commending the former for her presumptive nomination and the latter for “energizing millions of Americans.”

According to projections by the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton will win Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New Jersey, making her the presumptive Democratic nominee, which, according to the AP, she already was.

During a CNN panel discussion on Tuesday, former Reagan aide Jeffrey Lord argued that Donald Trump’s widely condemned comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel were not, in fact, racist and were instead pointing out racism.

A Minnesota man selected as a delegate for Bernie Sanders on Saturday was asked to withdraw just one day later when it was discovered he caught a felony drug rap earlier this year, Politico reports.

Tell your mom.

Pam Bondi wasn’t the only state attorney general to drop a Trump University probe: Greg Abbot—now the governor of Texas—closed his office’s civil investigation of “possibly deceptive trade practices” in 2010 after Trump University pulled out of Texas. Campaign finance records show that Trump subsequently donated $35,000 to Abbott’s successful gubernatorial bid.

From where do great leaders draw their inspiration? For George Washington, it was the Roman general Cincinnatus; for Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky’s greatest son, it was forebears like Henry Clay and great thinkers like Thomas Paine. For Matt Bevin, Kentucky’s present leader, it is a smear on the sidewalk that, if it isn’t an actual piece of shit, it certainly looks a lot like one.

After Elena Kadvany, a writer for the local site Palo Alto Online, published the moving letter a sexual assault survivor read aloud in court to the man who raped her, BuzzFeed writer Katie J. M. Baker also published the letter for BuzzFeed’s much larger audience. It was a worthwhile way to use a huge platform, which Baker did with skill and sensitivity. Millions read it, including me, millions were moved, including me, and the appealing justice of “awareness” was served.

Watching Republicans try to come up with a plan to fight poverty is like watching a rock plan to learn how to swim. The entire enterprise is doomed from the start.

Paul Ryan, who endorsed Donald Trump and might even vote for him when all is said and done, today proudly declared his candidate’s most recent statements as “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”

Donald Trump this week hired a new national political director and forgot to tell his campaign, so things are going great over there—thanks for asking.

Donald Trump has not even officially assumed the title as Republican nominee for president and already his campaign isn’t even bothering to hide that it’s tearing itself in two. Specifically, this past weekend, Paul Manafort, the longtime GOP dementor brought on by Trump to give his campaign an air of professionalism—or aides loyal to him—used MSNBC as a vessel to spark a revolt within the campaign.

Last year, International Business Times reporter David Sirota filed a Freedom of Information Act request for emails between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the United States Trade Representative, a federal agency concerned with negotiating international trade policy, in which the two offices discussed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a widely-criticized pact among the United States and eleven other countries, including Australia, Canada, and Mexico. Last week, the State Department notified Sirota about the progress of his request: The agency would not provide the emails until the end of November—three weeks after the 2016 presidential election.

Traffic in Midtown Manhattan is generally pretty bad, and if you’re not on 42nd Street, the subway offers no options for getting across town. What’s a commuter in a rush to do? Get on a bike.

“If we talked as if people had souls, then we’d have a thick view of what is at stake in everyday activities,” writes David Brooks today. At this point he’s basically the nice old man with Alzheimer’s at church that everyone chooses to leave alone as long as he doesn’t hit anyone.

David French, who mounted a third party presidential campaign for several days last week, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe variety show this morning for some reason, and said the Trump campaign tried to menace his wife and spook him out of running.