August 21, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Surowiecki: "The lack of an Ebola treatment is disturbing. But, given the way drug development is funded, it's also predictable."
- How America's no-ransom policy contributed to James Foley's death, and why a new policy could be in order.
- Related: Al Qaeda received $125 million in the past five years solely from kidnapping Europeans.
- Analyzing the Islamic State's quarterly reports: All attacks have increased; IEDs are the most preferred method.
- Like most rescue missions, the mission to save James Foley failed—critics say the reason is not enough spies.
- Jim Foley's letter home after an incarceration in Libya.
- What we need is 10,000 white soldiers in the battle. Notice I said "soldiers," not "generals."
- "The Talk" black parents have with their sons.
- Due in part to the Ice Bucket Challenge, the ALS Association has raised nearly 31 times last year's donations.
- Math: It would take just under 35 days for the whole world to complete the Ice Bucket Challenge.
- At the r00tz Aslyum conference, children are offered a safe place to hack and learn the rules of real-life hacking.
- Some US airports ban ads that share basic facts about women's equality.
- Religious web searches dominate places where the quality of life ranks lowest.
- California's economy is 75 times the size of Vermont's.
- How witnessing 278 executions in Texas affects you.
- The leader of the junta in Thailand, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, is named PM by a legislature he chose.
- Canadian government investigates one of its foreign ministers for not tweeting enough in French.
- The Morning News is seeking Fall/Winter editorial fellows.
- By washing our hands in hot water, we've been doing it wrong.
