April 20, 2015
- EU leaders call for emergency talks regarding immigration policy after 700 more migrants are feared dead at sea.
- Migrant accidents at sea en route to Europe are 30 times deadlier than this time last year—2014 was a record itself.
- Inside the strong-arm tactics the White House is employing in negotiating trade deals with a progressive coalition.
- FBI overstated forensic evidence in almost every case during a roughly 20-year period until the year 2000.
- A man is dead a week after being arrested by Baltimore police, who still haven't said what happened or why he was stopped.
- Congress—many of whom don't encrypt their websites; some of whom don't even email—can't be trusted with our cybersecurity.
- The phenomena of some black gay men accessing professional longevity is not about privilege.
- Dudley Moore was an accomplished jazz pianist, though some of his essential pieces are long lost and out of print.
- For musicians, The Bends is cover-bait; forgetting the thousands of "Creeps," here are the best of the rest.
- After 53 years on the air, Univision will end the kitschy though beloved Sábado Gigante.
- In 2017, Norway will become the first country to discontinue all FM radio transmissions.
- Flyers around the Mission stoke speculation about a TV pilot described as "Mark Zuckerberg fan fiction."
- Idea for a television show: A teenager has the power to turn fantasy into reality—but she doesn't know it.
- I expect gigantic ad buys, pundit bloodbaths, and so much ratfucking that E. Howard Hunt will come back from the dead.
- Cornel West was once our most exciting black intellectual, and now there's not much left of him.