August 17, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- South African police open fire on striking miners, killing at least 18.
- Even after billions of dollars have been spent reconstructing Haiti, many refugees still don't have safe housing.
- France's targeting of gypsy camps continues under Hollande, though with less opposition; as for the Roma, deportation is a profitable outcome.
- Israeli ambassador says his country would preemptively strike to delay Iran's nuclear weapons program.
- Paul is tenacious about the issues, and so far, true to form, he has gone after Romney like a bulldog.
- Reminder to vote for Andrew Womack's SXSW panel, "Too Long Didn't Read: The Future of Indie Longform."
- Our latest TMN Weekender: "News From America."
- The bleak future of terrestrial talk radio: Audiences aren't getting any younger, and top personalities are jumping to the web.
- There are now seven million American children whose families earn below 50 percent of the poverty line.
- Inside the cutthroat world of pro Scrabble.
- Related: Jay Caspian Kang, "The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High."
- Once you start honestly digging into the moral responsibility of college sports...it requires getting honest about college academics.
- "Ursine": Jill Greenberg's gallery of bears.
- Americans once ate a lot of squirrels, and it makes sense to start again.
