December 18, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Writers, editors, and thinkers reflect on things that were and were not important in 2015.
- Encyclopedia for much of what was discussed this past year in the District of Columbia.
- Election to head of government is associated with a substantial increase in mortality risk.
- DNC suspends Sanders campaign's access to its voter database, accusing it of snooping on Clinton's confidential voter information.
- Sanders says Clinton's support of regime change in Libya encouraged ISIS's rise.
- Sanders reaches two million individual donors, nearly besting Obama's 2012 record.
- It’s no mistake the only Republicans elected president since 1960 have come from California and Texas.
- Republican elites won’t let Ted Cruz’s immigration views near the White House.
- Compared to the conversations about Trump’s policies during the last few months, Rubio-Cruz is like Lincoln-Douglas.
- The future of journalism is in interlocking systems, and other predictions for next year.
- Brooklyn's favorite chocolate-making brothers, supposedly "bean to bar," accused of melting down other makers' candy.
- Paul Bloom encourages you—with scientific evidence—to just chill with your self-consciousness: no one's really paying attention.
- Bottom drops out of the antiques market, and recovery's unlikely anytime soon.
- Profile of Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards, driven by belief her side would win a national political crisis.
- For two million dollars, Nicki Minaj to perform tomorrow for murderous Angolan dictator-for-life.
- Democratic institutions in South Africa, smashed up by Zuma, require preservation.
- Wife of Australian pro golfer removed from Cavaliers game on a stretcher after LeBron James crashes into her.
- As movie studios continue to tap the vein of sequels, they grow more conservative, and “the desire to prey upon the faithful will only be worse.”
- Breaking up is hard to do, and revenge is even more fraught, and delicious.
- Rebecca Solnit: “Men Explain Lolita to Me.”
