* Updated Google Maps of North Korea reveal gulags, nuclear complex. * Related: "North Korea Won't Be Liberated in a Day" by Mike Deri Smith. * More of 2012 best nonfiction in Conor Friedersdorf's annual journalism roundup. * Why Palestine should take Israel to the International Criminal Court
* Brief guide to players, groups, and motivating factors in Mali's political crisis. * Four issues about "securing the border" that won't figure in the debate—like increased drug trafficking not leading to "spillover" violence. * Brazil's nightclub tragedy—230 dead—has some
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* Since the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, 1,318 people killed by gun violence. * Israel admits it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. * Union membership is at a 97-year low in the United States: 11.3 percent. * Rapper Rick Ross,
* Despite its military success, France's go-it-alone approach in Mali spells grim news for Europe's future. * City of Dijon sells off half its prized municipal wine cellar to help fund local social spending. * Uproar in France after Sarkozy's son gets law professor job
* Jobs go begging in Chinese factories when university graduates believe the labor is beneath them. * Paintings of daily life in Greece under austerity measures. * For doomsday preppers who will need to escape New York City, the contents of one well-packed "bug-out bag." * Related: Ralph Gamelli identifies
* Bipartisan gang of eight senators to present immigration-reform bill today. * TMN's Mike Deri Smith investigates fake consumer reviews online, outsourced to freelancers on an industrial scale. * Marine captain on "moral injury." * Obama sits down for the New Republic reboot, says he'd like the
* Because nobody wants to rock the boat, the RNC is sticking with the chairman who ruined 2012 for them. * Rarely seen outside North Korea, the stunningly synchronized Arirang mass games transform 50,000 teenagers into "living pixels." * Whether Beyoncé lip-synched is a scandal because it calls into
* "Bitterly cold conditions" expected to continue across much of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast. * Astonishing pictures of Chicago's freezing fire. * Everything you need to know about snowflake shapes comes from a scientist in Southern California. * Audio experts explain why it's clear that Beyoncé
* GOP hatches plan to award electoral votes by Congressional district outcomes—which would have resulted in a Romney victory. * One of Obama's reelection engineers launches effort to turn Texas blue—which would effectively end the Republican Party. * A dispatch from the Disinaugural Ball. * Audio engineer says Beyoncé'
