Good morning! There are fewer reads today; several of them are long-form pieces that I think merit your time.
- Senators Isakson and Perdue encouraged their colleagues to not rush to rename the Russell Senate Office Building in honor of Senator John McCain.
- The Clermont Hotel is open for business, and I can’t wait to stay there.
- Françoise Gilot abandoned studying law for art. She was Picasso’s muse and lover for nearly 10 years (she later married Dr. Jonas Salk), and she has a new book of sketches from their travels in the 1970s and early 1980s.
- It’s bad enough we have to worry about the robots achieving sentience. City life is making animals smarter, too.
- Long Read #1, from Outside Magazine: Utah is the second-dryest state in the United States, and it is also home to the fastest-growing metropolitan area in America. Is there enough water in the Colorado River to support an area where developers are trying “to establish a city where no city should be?”
- Long Read #2, from BuzzFeed News: An examination of the horror and depravity that befell children at a Catholic orphanage in Vermont. This is a wrenching read.