Vox Sentences: Here we go, once again, with the email

There's more Hillary Clinton email drama; same-sex marriage opponents make their sad, pathetic last stand; and some musings on self-driving cars.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

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TOP NEWS

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• Oh you thought the whole Hillary Clinton email drama was over? WRONG it was not over.

• The State Department posted 4,368 documents, totaling 7,121 pages, in the latest monthly disclosure of emails sent and received by Clinton during her time as Secretary.

  [NYT / Peter Baker and Michael Schmidt]

• The emails are a good reminder that DC is considerable more like Veep than it is like House of Cards. Clinton literally sent an email with the subject line "Gefilte fish" and body text, "Where are we on this?"

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton's close confidant who Obama loyalists blocked from joining the State Department, sent a decent fraction of the emails released, including one where he calls John Boehner an alcoholic. Here's what you need to know about Blumenthal.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

• Some of the emails are actually revealing. One from special Israel-Palestine envoy Martin Indyk includes a detailed analysis of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to the peace process, and why Netanyahu was bungling prospects for a deal.

  [Vox / Max Fisher]

• If you want to dig in, here are 21 of the most notable emails. My favorite is the one where Clinton ally David Brock outlines a harebrained scheme to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

  [Politico / Nick Gass]

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Somewhat-less-than-massive resistance

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• So remember how the Supreme Court made same-sex legal everywhere in June? Well, a sad county official in Kentucky is still bitter about it.

  [NYT / Alan Blinder and Richard Pérez-Peña]

• Kim Davis, the county clerk of of Rowan County, Kentucky (population 23,333) has refused to issue marriage licenses to either opposite-sex or same-sex couples ever since the ruling came down.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Gov. Steve Beshear (D) ordered all county clerks to issue marriage licenses, prompting a lawsuit from Davis.

  [Lexington Herald-Leader / John Cheves]

• Davis took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which denied her appeal. She still has refused to issue licenses.

  [NBC News / Pete Williams]

• Lawyers representing same-sex couples have asked a federal judge to find Davis in contempt of court and fine her; the judge could send her to jail, but the couples have specifically requested that he not. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

  [AP]

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Here in my car, I feel safest of all

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• One of the biggest challenges for self-driving cars: human-driven cars are the worst.

  [NYT / Matt Richtel and Conor Dougherty]

• A New York Times article runs through some problems Google's latest batch of cars has experienced: waiting too long at four-way stops because human drivers are awful and didn't come to a complete stop; a human-driven sedan ramming into a Google car after it slowed to let a pedestrian cross; the only time a Google car ever caused an accident, which happened when a human, not code, was programming it.

• This gets at a dilemma in the development of self-driving cars: do we transition in one leap, or let cars gradually automate more tasks. Tesla is opting for the latter approach, as are most traditional car companies.

  [Slate / Will Oremus]

• But you give up a lot of benefits if humans are still doing some driving at least a little bit. You can't sleep during a drive; cars can't park themselves; you can't have totally driver-free taxis.

  [Vox / Brad Plumer]

• And you give up a lot of benefits if you don't ban human driving. Self-driving cars could, for example, go much faster by communicating with each other so they can pack close together. If any humans are still driving, that's a lot harder.

  [Vox / Brad Plumer]

• If self-driving technologies lives up to potential, sooner or later we're going to need to talk about banning human driving. Elon Musk is opposed but I think it's a great idea.

  [The Verge / Josh Lowensohn]

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MISCELLANEOUS

Until the New Deal, the Supreme Court thought most federal legislation regulating the economy was unconstitutional. A growing number of libertarian law professors think they were right — and want to go back. [New Republic / Brian Beutler]

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force ended on Sunday, and with it, so did my childhood. Tim O'Neil has a great piece on what made the series so iconic.

  [AV Club / Tim O'Neil]

• The Chinese government has attempted to pin the entire stock market crash on a single reporter, who "confessed" to inciting panic on Chinese state TV.

  [Washington Post / Emily Rauhala]

• Taipei's metro and bus network is introducing a subway card featuring the image of a prominent Japanese porn star. There is some uproar.

  [BBC]

• A psychologist showed professional classical musicians performances at major international competitions, and asked them to identify the winner. They did no better than chance based on audio — but if they watched a silent video, they could pick.

  [The Atlantic / Alex Mayyasi]

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VERBATIM

"Kermit, who is still working with Miss Piggy on her late-night talk show Up Late with Miss Piggy, has been spotted around town numerous times with a head of marketing at ABC named Denise, a source tells PEOPLE exclusively." [People / Patrick Gomez]

• "We should absolutely require gun owners to pay against the indemnity they might incur when their gun does what it is statistically most likely to do – kills or injures them, or someone else."

  [The Guardian / David Ferguson]

• "Next time you’re inclined to chalk your obnoxious co-worker’s delusions of grandeur down to the Dunning-Kruger effect, consider the possibility that your co-worker’s simply a jerk – no meta-cognitive incompetence necessary."

  [Tal Yarkoni]

• "To say I was profoundly disturbed by what I saw - and didn't see - would be an understatement. The incompetence is mind numbing."

  [Chelsea Clinton to Hillary and Bill Clinton via BuzzFeed / Kyle Blaine]

• "Tesearch conducted over the past half-decade shows that CBT delivered via a website can be just as effective as CBT delivered through an in-person therapist."

  [The Atlantic / Robinson Meyer]

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