December 7, 2015
By The Morning News
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- France's far-right National Front party makes historic gains in Sunday's elections, securing at least six regions.
- Five takeaways from France’s regional elections.
- Clinton on reining in Wall Street: Strengthen the Volcker Rule, reward whistleblowers, extend the statute of limitations for major crimes to 10 years.
- IPRA, Chicago's eight-year-old system for investigating police misconduct, was "seemingly designed to fail."
- No sane person thinks that Carly Fiorina is “guilty” of the shooting at Planned Parenthood, or that Wayne LaPierre is guilty of the one in San Bernardino.
- Because now we live in a world where this is apparently necessary: What to do in an active shooter situation.
- Dealing with the aftermath of surviving a mass shooting.
- Last messages people received from ex-friends, ex-significant others, and the deceased.
- In Paris, island nation Kiribati (pop. 100,000) proposes "crazy" floating island scheme to deal with displacement due to climate change.
- Dispatch from Kiribati, which may be the first nation to be entirely displaced due to climate change, from 2013.
- A 1914 map shows how many days it took to travel from London to anywhere in the world.
- How a tiny part of a US amendment prevents developing countries and the UN from providing safe abortions.
- Wealth inequality in Congress: 53 members own 80 percent of the total wealth of federal lawmakers.
- Programming data from America's symphonies.
- Report from Palmer Park, Detroit, where a spike in violence against trans women has concentrated.
- How to give away a home in Vehicle City, Mich., one of the most violent places in the world.
- Matthew Baldwin's annual round-up of the year's best board games.
