MinnPost Picks: on pseudoscorpions, the real Hillary Clinton, and reaching ‘peak pundit’

“Aloha and Welcome to Paradise. Unless You’re Homeless,” The New York TimesIn this piece, Adam Nagourney takes a deep look at how Hawaii officials drove homeless people out of the state’s capital. The effort to ban homeless individuals from public spaces began a year ago, when Gov. David Ige declared a state of emergency, and city officials passed tough laws aimed at barring homeless people from sidewalks, streets and parks. At the time, Honolulu was home to the largest homeless community in the nation. Today, most of city’s homeless population has been taken into shelters — a move that has inspired hundreds of big American cities to criminalize homelessness. — Ibrahim Hirsi, immigration and workforce reporter“Here's what scientists found when they opened a cave that had been isolated for more than five million years,” IFLScienceMovile Cave was discovered in Romania near the Black Sea coast in 1986. The cave had been sealed for 5.5 million years. The air is poisonous, it's extremely humid and it's home to an array of spiders, water scorpions, pseudoscorpions, centipedes, leeches, and isopods — 33 of which are totally unique to this one cave. All of these factors, as well as it having an ecosystem that relies on chemosynthetic bacteria versus photosynthesis, has made it a treasure trove for biologists. — Corey Anderson, web editor“Every hour, every day, every opinion,” The Washington PostOne recent week on the three main cable news channels, 60-plus different pundits were featured, leading Paul Farhi of the Washington Post to ask: "Have We Reached Peak Pundit?" We can only hope. — Peter Callaghan, local government reporter“Hillary vs. Herself,” New YorkThis week, as the general election shifts into gear, I want to send along perhaps the best story I've read about Hillary Clinton: Rebecca Traister’s lengthy, well-reported rumination on the woman who could be the next president. Clinton has spent more time in public life than almost any other politician, and has certainly gone through more iterations of herself than any. In 2016, a big Hillary problem is that people feel like they don't know her — and the candidate, scarred by past events, doesn't trust the media and the public enough to show them. Traister spends hours with Clinton to try to answer that elusive question: Who is Hillary Clinton, really? — Sam Brodey, Washington correspondent

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