* Sean Penn's renegade interview helped Mexico pin down escaped cocaine boss Guzman. * Conclusions from a new book on how isolated, commiserating extremists band together online. * French crackdown after Charlie Hebdo exposes a double standard when it comes to defending free speech. * Obama will campaign for the Democratic nominee,
* American drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as the number of people they killed, dropped significantly in 2015. * Almost 4,000 Pakistanis have been killed by American drones since 2004. * A staggeringly high amount of people killed by drones under Obama have not been military targets. * He may have wanted
* "More people will get into more trucks. Most of them will get where they're going. But a few of them will die." * Turkish police raid business making fake life vests—that actually sink—for refugees. * Hundreds of thousands of indigenous Peruvians were sterilized under a nefarious
* Hundreds of "drunk and aggressive" men molested women in a New Year's attack in Germany, stirring tension over refugees. * Susan Sarandon reports on the refugee crisis. * How each presidential candidate must perform in the early states in order to win their nominations. * Navigating the personal, legal,
* With five months left to do anything, Obama is pushing nearly 4,000 new regulations through bureaucracy. * Obama's executive actions on guns will expand federal background checks. * See also: How federal background checks work. * The process of buying a gun in California, which has some of the harshest
* Hate won 2015. * DHS is preparing to deport "hundreds" of Central American families who fled violence this month. * At least 83 people deported by the Obama administration to Central America in 2014 were murdered. * Obama will soon announce executive actions on gun control. * Executions in Saudi Arabia reach
* The Coalfield Development Corporation brings affordable housing, employment, and mentoring to Appalachia. * People for Bikes lobbies for a five-fold increase in biking in America by 2025. * Five-step checklist for maximizing your year-end donations. * See also: Charity Navigator's guide to great gift-giving. * GiveDirectly lets you
* Failures of Obama—and Bush before him—have created, for the first time, an unabashedly liberal Democratic Party. * Democrats reluctant to embrace millennial black voters don’t understand the numbers behind the movement. * "Starting Saturday, tribes can claim jurisdiction over non-Native men who commit crimes of domestic violence.
* Grand jury decides not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland. * CBS edits debate focus-group footage to exclude Muslim-American commentary critical of American militarism. * Are Shkreli’s antics—not far from Big Pharma’s usual practices—enough to bring the industry to heel? * T-shirts already
* New Star Wars film has biggest opening in movie history despite not opening in China yet. * In Spain, Podemos party surges as two formerly dominant parties both lose votes for the first time in Spanish democracy. * How Israel is trying to restore domestic safety—steps the Palestinians call vindictive and
