August 26, 2015
- Pentagon investigates whether its ISIS intelligence skewed too optimistic.
- Police get new high-tech toys, including unregulated phone-hacking Stingrays ("spy first, ask judges later").
- Freddie Gray's life was testament to another bulwark of racism: poisonous lead paint and the scams that preyed on its black victims.
- Trump's birthright extremism throws opponent into fits—Scott Walker flip-flopped for the third time Sunday.
- Trump says the US is alone in offering birthright citizenship—actually, nearly the entire Western Hemisphere does.
- As president, Jimmy Carter wouldn't accept less than total victory, making his many successes feel like a failure.
- Following up on the shared delusions of the young Slender Man attackers.
- Dozens of outlets (re-)publish Duke's Fun Home story and add nothing.
- Advocates eye Title IX for pro sports.
- Israel challenges Heinz: Your product doesn't contain enough tomatoes to be real ketchup.
- Snoopy is an attention hog.
- Stephen Hawking takes credit for 20-year-old idea that information escapes black holes, albeit in unusable form.
- "In the name of science, there are currently three women and 10 men living on the edge of the world."
- On the International Space Station, Russians and Americans prefer different urine-recycling systems.
- The cast of RENT would have to pay 10 times as much today for their Greenwich Village spot.
- If you put Uber's recent "innovations" together, the result looks an awful lot like taking the bus.
- "Fully 89% of cellphone owners say they used their phone during the most recent social gathering they attended."