February 22, 2016
- Saudi Arabia’s weapons imports for 2011-15 increased by 275% compared with 2006–10.
- Amidst alleged murder spree, Kalamazoo man continued his job as an Uber driver.
- Students were armed during America's first school shooting and it didn't help much.
- Sanders unlikely to be pleased that Spring Break clashes with a large swath of primaries and caucuses.
- How Jeb fell victim to hype, hysteria, and himself.
- Citizens who speak up at town-hall meetings are occasionally paid actors, hired by campaigns.
- Even after a ruling overturns racially-segregated gerrymandering, not one district in 50-50 North Carolina is competitive.
- Various views updated in light of Trump's success.
- Death statistics show that the effects of Scalia's death will reverberate in the Supreme Court through 2060.
- Divvying Syria between international powers will only prolong conflict.
- How to drink alcohol in the Middle East, specifically Qatar.
- Flying on a passenger jet in Africa is now about as safe as it would have been to board a European or American one about two decades ago.
- The NSA kills people in Pakistan based on metadata—with a "scientifically unsound" algorithm that may have mislabeled thousands.
- This is what it’s like to be followed by the government for being Muslim in higher education.
- How economists would fight the war on drugs: demand-side interventions.
- Miami police and other officers to boycott Beyoncé concerts.
- Security weak point of any commercial enterprise: warranty replacements and the humans who can be conned into issuing them.
- Likely unrelated: Photographs of China's goat carts.
- Paul Bloom says psychology’s problems replicating experiments can be overcome, but doesn't say how.
- The intern economy is humming along unhindered, ballooning constantly.
- Young evangelicals ditch biblical literalism.
- Remembering Umberto Eco.