Drive-Thru Voting | Tips for Living Long | Syria’s Torture on Stage

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Monday Jul 29, 2019 1 [Politics & Power]( [Politics & Power]( [What Colorado's Huge Voter Engagement Can Teach the Nation]( Drive-through ballot boxes. Walmart election centers. Sheriffs dropping off ballots door-to-door. High schoolers serving as election judges. These are just a few of the things that have turned Colorado into one of the top voting centers in America. As part of our 2020 election coverage, OZY set out to pinpoint the most politically activated communities in the country to better understand what makes them tick. We discovered that Colorado was home to five of the top seven counties in the nation for voter turnout during the last presidential election, according to our exclusive voter participation analysis with Washington-based data and consulting firm 0ptimus. [READ MORE]( 2 [Rising Stars]( [Rising Stars]( [He's Bringing the Horrors of Syrian Prisons to the Stage]( When Ali Abou Dehn peeked through the crack in the iron door, he saw buckets of chicken and rice waiting to be served to him and his fellow prisoners. On most days, he was forced to survive by splitting an egg with five people. But on this day, March 8, 1988, prisoners were fed well to honor the 35th anniversary of the coup d’état that brought the Syrian Baathist regime to power. Abou Dehn couldn’t wait to eat, until he took a second look through the door. This time, he saw a guard unzip his pants and piss on the food. He knew guards would kill him if he said something. “A cockroach had more value than a human in that prison,” laments Abou Dehn, now 69. He and other Lebanese former detainees have reenacted their own harrowing memories — in a film and two plays — to expose the unfathomable brutality inside Syria’s prisons. [READ MORE]( 3 [Good Sh*t]( [Good Sh*t]( [Tips for Growing Old From a Long-Living Philosopher]( It’s an age-old question — about the very act of getting old. And one of the best answers to the question of how best to grow old comes from the late British philosopher Bertrand Russell. At the age of 79, Russell, who died 50 years ago this February, sat down and penned a 1,000-word essay that is one of the most moving and insightful commentaries on achieving “a successful old age.” In “How to Grow Old,” Russell, also a mathematician, historian and Nobel laureate, turned his powerful mind toward comforting others — and himself — about the aging process. “In spite of the title,” the essay begins, “this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of life, is a much more important subject.” [READ MORE]( [Sponsored by: The Points Guy]( [This Top Travel Rewards Card is Offering a Lucrative 50,000 Mile Welcome Bonus]( You have your summer or fall getaway all planned out, and now it’s time to book. Being 50,000 miles richer could make all the difference in making your trip a reality. This card is offering an amazing 50,000 miles to new card holders who spend $3,000 in the first 3 months. The card has top-notch earnings ratios including 10X miles on select hotel bookings and an impressive 2 miles per dollar on everything else. [LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS AMAZING CARD]( 4 [Acumen]( [Hollywood Feels the Pinch of Trade War Tensions in China]( China is a booming market for moviegoers, but the U.S. film industry’s influence there may be flagging. 5 [The Huddle]( [How One Upset Scarred the Legacy of History’s Greatest Thoroughbred]( Urban legends aside, this was one unexpected outcome to a horse race. 6 [Fast Forward]( [Singapore Plots Tech Fixes to Battle 'Existential' Threat]( Half the size of London, this city-state faces an existential threat from climate change. 7 [True Story]( [How a Female Impersonator Dresses for Success]( When Bobbi DeCarlo does drag, he does it old school. 8 [Fast Forward]( [Will College Esports Arenas Soon Compete With Football Stadiums?]( As colleges invest in varsity esports, recruits look to a new wave of high-tech arenas to determine who really means business. 9 [Good Sh*t]( [An Old-School Cure for Toddler Phone-Grabbing: Calculators]( Kids love this simple low-tech solution. But there are bigger questions for the parents. 10 [Acumen]( [Men Like Monogamy Less Than Women, Right? Think Again]( A study looking at polyamory found that women were more comfortable with the idea of non-monogamy than men. You Should Know This [OZY and Oprah's New TV Show ...]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](