* Fourteen-year-old student wounded in a shooting yesterday outside a middle school in Atlanta. * Fifteen-year-old honors student, shot and killed after school on Tuesday, previously starred in a video urging fellow students to avoid gangs. * Study: "Stand your ground" gun laws increase manslaughters and murders
* Breakdown of recent arguments around a favorite conservative concept: the hidden prosperity of the poor. * Photos from Hillary Clinton's 956,733 miles traveled as secretary of state. * Chinese court finds two Tibetans guilty of urging self-immolation, sentences one to death, the other to prison for 10 years.
* While Giffords and the NRA's LaPierre addressed the Senate, another mass shooting took place in Arizona. * NRA admits it doesn't support the idea of extending background checks to gun shows. * As of 1998, for every time a woman used a handgun to kill in self-defense,
* 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
