This week, Donald Trump’s struggling inauguration received another blow when the Rockettes decided to wear costumes appropriate to the event.

• Afflictor’s 50 Great 2016 Nonfiction Pieces: Read some of my favorite journalism from the past 12 months.

Writers on the list: Alexandra Suich, Amanda Gefter, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Andrew Brown, Andrew Hessel, Andrew Rice, Anna Fifield, Calum Chace, Caroline Winter, Charles Blow, Claire Cain Miller, Clare Trapasso, Cory Doctorow, Dan Barry, Dave McKenna, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane, David Remnick, Douglas Rushkoff, Ece Temelkuran, Edward Luce, Ellen Wayland-Smith, Eric Lipton, Erica Frantz, Eyal Press, Freeman Dyson, George Church, Hannah Devlin, Joseph Goldstein, Julie Turkewitz, Khizr Khan, Masha Gessen, Michael Graziano, Mike McPhate, Neal Gabler, Nicholas Carr, Rabbi Mordecai Finley, Richard Hollingham, Richard Seymour, Robert Epstein, Robyn Ross, Roxane Gay, Sasha Von Oldershausen, Serge F. Kovaleski, Stephen Hsu, Susan Schneider, Ta-Nahesi Coates, Tad Friend, Tim Bradshaw, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Virginia Heffernan, William Gibson and  Yuval Noah Harari.

• Henry Miller’s most apocalyptic 1940s essays don’t seem out of place today.

• Jared Kushner had a key role in the political rise of a Ku Klux Kardashian.

• The GOP is unaware Trump’s narrow win was not a mandate. That’s terrifying.

• A former CIA analyst writes of a PEOTUS enamored with Putin and Assange.

• Fox News has been in the fake news business for more than 20 years.

• In 1981, My Dinner With Andre spoke to importance of facts and truth.

• The “death of expertise” has upended pop culture and, now, the Presidency.

• Cliodynamics predicts our political confusion may be prelude to great chaos.

• In 1987, Robert Heilbroner worried America was becoming a two-tier society.

• Henrik Christensen talks driverless cars, robots, privacy, UBI, etc.

• Skechers and Amazon are rapidly automating their California warehouses.

• Freeman Dyson initially believed 2016 would be the year of the Astrochicken.

• Twitter’s lack of response to bigoted trolls made Lindy West quit the service.

• Mark Zuckerberg had a come-to-Jesus moment and a come-to-Jarvis one.

• Old Print Article: Sven Hedin unearths a curious custom in Tibet. (1908)

• Old Print Article: Louis-Ferdinand Céline publishes his war novel. (1934)

• A brief note from 1903 about guillotine usage in Sweden.