February 11, 2015
By The Morning News
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- An estimated 20,000 foreign fighters have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join IS, including 150 from the US.
- Obama to withdraw most troops from West Africa and declare the five-month Ebola effort a success.
- Trumpeting supremacy clause Obama confident Supreme Court will raise LGBT rights to a federal high-water mark.
- Contrary to his personal beliefs, Obama opposed same-sex marriage for political reasons during the 2008 election.
- The path to Obama's Vox and Buzzfeed interviews started when bin Laden's death trended on Twitter.
- From universal preschool to family leave, the Democratic platform is coalescing around perks for parents.
- See also: Gendering today's family leave agenda.
- In Congress, Democrats and Republicans who sit closer to each other are more polarized in their voting behavior.
- Database of Jeb Bush's communications shows government-by-email in its early-oughts infancy.
- By publishing all his email, Jeb Bush's attempt at transparency reveals constituents' personal data.
- St. Louis confronts its rising murder rate.
- A superintelligence would be godlike, but would it be animated by wrath or by love? It’s up to us.
- Neil Armstrong's widow finds a bag of his personal moon landing artifacts in a closet.
- LSD fungus found in a 100 million-year-old fossil—dinosaurs may have ingested psychotropics.
- Historical reenacting in Salem while black.
- Researchers say chronic fatigue syndrome affects at least 2.5 million Americans and should be taken seriously.
- Manifesto for the Shrimp Cloud.
- "Jon Stewart may be one of a kind, but The Daily Show is more than just one person."
- It's clear we love the Dead Girl, but we don't empathize with her. If we did, we might ask why we did nothing to protect her.
- Michael Chabon annotates Kendrick Lamar on Genius.
- Vonnegut explains how stories can be graphed based on their ups and downs.
