August 18, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Following Sunday's violence between police and protestors in Ferguson, Missouri governor calls in the National Guard.
- Last night, Ferguson police ordered the media to "get the fuck out of here," and threatened to shoot them.
- Ferguson's divisions, like those of Missouri, began during the Civil War and remain in place today.
- I had to come to Ferguson. Not as a journalist, but as a black man fed up with the idea of black boys who are unable to become black men.
- Teen siblings create an app to help monitor police behavior.
- A combination of poverty and racial and social stigmas has made Louisiana a "hotbed" for HIV.
- New Orleans is building a hurricane-proof hospital, dock included.
- A couple in Tehran turns a taxi into a mobile reading room.
- Extensive primer on the Islamic State’s history and goals in Iraq and Syria.
- Man with 453 piercings—the most in the world—is banned from entering Dubai because they fear he practices "black magic."
- The New Yorker's 1978 Johnny Carson profile.
- A secret history of hidden album tracks—they survived CDs and made it to digital, sometimes inelegantly.
- Maura Johnston deciphers the Song of the Summer—each year's appointee isn't always apparent.
- Because summer: New York restaurant serves a family-style "Kitchen Sink" sundae, with 16 scoops, for $100.
- Michael Erard tracks his family's garbage.
