December 9, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Marines placed on high alert, anticipating a backlash from today's Senate torture report on the Bush era.
- Bush, former CIA officials condemn the torture report.
- Related: The report is too little, too late for Obama's record; key aides muddled the approach from the get-go.
- ACLU director: We should pardon the torturers—Bush, et al.—it may be the only way to establish torture is illegal.
- Americans should see the rise of China as a wake-up call to put our own house in order.
- An incomplete list of unarmed people of color killed by police since 1999.
- Chelsea Manning: Legally changing my name has no effect on the "legal" gender status the government imposes upon me.
- French objection to gay rights driven, on the left and right, by deeply held cultural association between gender and society.
- SUV that ran down a Muslim teen in Kansas City bore message comparing the Koran to Ebola.
- Why it's important not to get suckered into caring more about property damage than lives during the Eric Garner protests.
- In futbol-mad Latin America, sexist policies and culture still hold women's soccer back.
- Physicists theorize the big bang was a phase rather than a beginning, and we may be living in an alternate timeline.
- US Supreme Court rejects BP's Gulf of Mexico settlement—affected businesses won't need to prove harm.
- Louisiana's best hope for saving its disappearing coastline is a scientifically untested, $50 billion construction project.
- As YouTube's teen stars grow older (and richer), so too has the medium lost its purity and inclusivity.
- Livestreams, increasingly popular by independent and mainstream channels, blur the lines between media and activism.
- TGI Friday's mistletoe drone media stunt ends in bloodshed.
- The Dept. of Defense's 2014 Gift Guide.
