LETTER

The News

July 21, 2017

Perry K. Wong
Jul 21, 2017 · 3 min read

It’s finally Friday! In top news, the Juice is officially loose, as a parole board in Nevada decided to free O.J. Simpson in October having served a minimum nine years out of a nine to thirty-year prison sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping at a Las Vegas casino in 2007.

In other news, two protestors died in Venezuela during demonstrations against proposed changes to the country’s constitution; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson faces fines from the Treasury Department for violating U.S. sanctions against Russia in 2014 during his tenure as CEO of Exxon Mobile; and Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington was found dead in his Los Angeles home at age 41.

As always, have a great weekend and thanks for checking out the newsletter.

Cheers,

The Wonks Team

Politics and Public Policy

  • Bloomberg News writes about the need for establishing rules for cyberwarfare, explaining the current round of cyberattacks between Russia and the U.S. as well as the importance of defining appropriate retaliatory measures and outlawing specific practices, like with the current ban on chemical weapons in militarized warfare.

Business, Science, and Health

Sports and Culture

  • Quartz previews this year’s San Diego Comic Con, including the main events and discussion panels while commenting on whether or not the convention is still relevant with the cultural dominance of comics and era of internet spoilers.

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