April 14, 2015
- The UAE gave more than a million dollars to New York police—the paper trail goes mysteriously cold after that.
- Police are rarely charged for fatal shootings in the line of duty because the burden of proof is so high.
- Putin reframes WWII anniversary to consolidate Russian nationalism and prepare people for war.
- Whistleblower at veteran's psychiatry clinic commits suicide after he was fired for claiming patients were too drugged to treat properly.
- Uruguayan anti-capitalist scribe Eduardo Galeano dies; his political writings inspired Morales, Chavez, Rousseff.
- Layers of salty brine in Martian soil signal that liquid water may still exist on fourth planet.
- Le Pen patriarch accedes to daughter's suggestion he retire from National Front electoral slate after offensive remarks.
- Imagining an alternate timeline where industrialized economies rely on charcoal.
- Terrifying tale of a father darkly obsessed with Jung, Russian mail-order brides, and the sexual abuse of his own son.
- Q&A with the man who in 2017 may become the first person to receive a human head transplant.
- Science shows us that just looking at a sick person activates our immune systems.
- As Oklahoma considers nitrogen for "humane" executions, we're forgetting there's no such thing as a "humane execution."
- Related: Our search for "humane" executions will lead us to relying on urban legends to kill prisoners.
- House bill would roll back royalty exemptions for radio stations, require them to pay artists when they play songs.
- See also: Tidal is awful to use—it's more of a commercial outlet for artists than a place to hear music.
- Update: Let's not turn aircraft carriers into a Seattle bridge; first off, there aren't extra aircraft carriers.
- A brief history of Tex-Mex.