December 21, 2015
By The Morning News
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- 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 overreaching.
- Debates prove that Democrats like modern America, Republicans prefer ye olde America.
- Trump in a general election battle with Hillary would have several potentially devastating advantages.
- Clinton’s Trumpian nonsense answers on cybersecurity show Dems have weird ideas about the internet, too.
- See also: Web law shouldn’t assume parents can give consent for children.
- In the Netherlands, it's legal to offer driving lessons in return for sex, but illegal to offer sex in return for lessons.
- Is automation going to facilitate or stymie the revolution?
- Oberlin students accuse dining halls of serving racially inauthentic, microaggressive meals.
- Reproducibility problems in clinical genetics create major consequences for thousands of families.
- Diversity in science needs more than pointing to a few stars of color.
- In a post-colonial America, citizenship is complicated; time to address the “mismatch between constitutional theory and national reality.”
- The best feminist quotes of 2015, from Ms..
- Horrifying story of a Toronto millionaire who, by dying, convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible.
- Ten startling facts found in books this year—like how London's fogs once reduced visibility to nothing indoors.
- Price indices for ladies dancing, lords leaping, pipers piping.
