This Chart Proves That Winning Oscars Is Bad for Business: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Don’t go chasing waterfalls
“It turns out that making a fine film is a bit like writing a great book of poetry — it’s a relatively poor financial decision. The movie-going masses really do want to watch Vin Diesel in a Furious car, not a serious work of cinema grappling with weighty social issues.”
2. Canada meets its goal of 25,000 Syrians refugees
“A plane carrying the 25,000th Syrian refugee arrived in Montreal Saturday night, meaning the government met its revised goal two days early.” The Globe and Mail looks at how the Liberal government came through on one of their boldest campaign pledges.
3. Hillary Clinton’s role in Libya’s descent into chaos
“The president was wary. The secretary of state was persuasive. But the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi left Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven.” From the weekend, part one of the New York Times‘ series on Hillary Clinton’s role in the current conflict in Libya. You can read part two here.
4. Secret tapings
Donald Trump may not want to build a wall after all. In an off-the-record interview with the New York Times, the entertainer-turned-spectacle reportedly told the Times what he actually thinks about immigration. The information could ruin the candidate in the eyes of voters, but the Times refuses to release the transcripts. Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith has more.
+1: John Oliver finally took on Donald Trump last night.
5. Meet the man who made millions off the Afghan war
You need to read Matthieu Atkin’s latest dispatch in the New Yorker, on how a young Afghan military contractor became spectacularly rich.
