February 19, 2015
- Justice Dept. prepared to sue Ferguson PD over racial discrimination if it doesn't make recommended changes.
- Football in general, and football fans in particular, can't persuade a racist not to be a racist.
- MLK was a Trekkie, and in 1969 he convinced star Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) not to leave the show.
- Portland, Ore.'s, white-only history must include the story of a black community destroyed by flood in 1948.
- Obama designates national monument at Hawaii World War II-era internment camp.
- Twenty of Jeb Bush's 21-member foreign policy team were in the administrations of his brother, his father, or Reagan.
- Syriza attracts the support of young Greek women—even this far-left party retains Greek's traditional male emphasis.
- Foreigners can't believe Iran's tourism play.
- Oklahoma's AP US history ban—for "not promoting American exceptionalism"—is the latest skirmish in a broader war.
- Chinese New Year fireworks plunge Beijing's air quality from "good" levels into "hazardous."
- Why don't more women run away to the woods?
- Snapchat is now a brand of ecstasy.
- The varying shades of asexuality are mostly self-defined, as a way for those with like desires to identify each other.
- Attention Rooster fans: Here are you 2015 Tournament of Books brackets.
- Three new Dr. Seuss books will be published from recovered manuscripts.
- Baby human walks on ice for the first time.