April 23, 2015
- In politics and business, families still hold power; a Clinton or Bush has been on the ticket in seven of the past nine races.
- Outline of five factors putting Republican control of the Senate at risk next year.
- Jindal: Defending freedom means protecting people who denounce gay marriage.
- For a Republican Party struggling to remain relevant to the American mainstream, the fact that it can’t let go of its marriage bigotry is telling.
- Family of Michael Brown to file suit against the city of Ferguson.
- Minutely radioactive drone found on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister's office.
- Drones are being used to smuggle contraband to inmates, and prison officials don't know what to do about it.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: "I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies."
- Migrants who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe are often met with bureaucracy and homelessness.
- I used to think empathy was the all-purpose cleaner for social ills.
- Analysis of different states' most popular search queries for goods and services.
- Driven by cultural misunderstanding, an adoption boom of Marshallese children springs up in Arkansas.
- Americans don't remember how to write checks anymore—so they turn to Google.
- Man fined for shooting his computer eight times, a "glorious" experience.
- Today on TMN: Invasion of the Apple Watch is imminent, but some wrists are already spoken for.
- See also: Spain is the world’s fastest marathon-running nation, but Iceland's close on its heels.
- On deciding to find one's birth parents.
- Thursday poem: "Written by Himself," by Gregory Pardlo, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize.