December 8, 2015
- Trump's bid to bar all Muslims from entering the US shouldn't be a surprise—he's the candidate we deserve.
- Election history shows that even during a normal year, Iowan voters rarely settle on a decision until the last moment.
- Academics say most violence in the world is motivated by personal morality.
- By softening his tone, Putin simply may be reading the weather: 75% of Russians think relations with the West should be improved.
- Alan Taylor's top 25 news photos of 2015.
- From Trump's bigotry to the plight refugees, 2015 is the year that Children of Men started becoming real.
- Round-up of the best board games released in 2015.
- Design guidelines for how to build a London Underground tube station.
- Analysis of 10,000 "Missed Connection" Craigslist posts.
- Interviews with seven future abortion providers on violence against abortion providers.
- Maybe we can confront the misogynists we love head-on, precisely because we love them.
- DEA's international narco-terrorism unit's cases are frequently based on coercive tactics used by their own undercover agents.
- China's increased investments in sub-Saharan Africa lead to Chinese nationals caught up in foreign court systems with no support.
- Fallout from East Germany's "State Plan 14.25," which oversaw pumping steroids into the fledgling country's athletes.
- Listening to the climate change with soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause.
- It’s extremely appropriate that Elmo refers to himself in the third person, because Elmo is the only thing that Elmo is concerned with.
- Found photos of road-tripping around the United States.