February 25, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Chicago's incumbent mayor Emanuel fails to win more than 50% of the vote despite big advantages.
- Chicago police found to be operating a "domestic black site," where detainees are abused in secret.
- Perhaps predictably, David Brooks thinks Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton at the Public Theater is the best thing ever.
- Giuliani's need for unadulterated praise is a danger long warned against.
- With the finale of Parks and Recreation, the right says goodbye to its favorite sitcom libertarian, Ron Swanson.
- Leftists should temper their expectations for Greece's new Marxist finance minister, whose radicalism takes him to the brink, but not beyond it.
- Gessen: Even if Putin were nice—and "the actual Putin is not at all nice"—history wouldn't look different.
- Banned since Adolf Hitler's death in 1945, Mein Kampf to be reissued soon in Germany.
- The dominance of English as science's sole tongue is partially Hitler's fault.
- Deaf community brainstorms new sign language terms over the web, until dominant signs emerge.
- Related: New language discussed via Skype with two hearing linguists, plus another, who is deaf, via text.
- "An Open Letter to the White Fathers of Black Daughters."
- With the discovery of a new species, scientists officially confirm the evolutionary link between hippos and whales.
- There is no great snowplow stagnation.
- Racing jeeps across "that part of the India-Pakistan border that’s all beer and gunshots of joy."
- Definitive walkthrough of the legal battleground for gay marriage in Texas.
- Anticipating next week's arguments over the Affordable Care Act: How the Supreme Court chooses its cases.
- Mary Cassatt's art and life explored with JavaScript, considered in light of women's contemporary struggles in technology.
- Vicemo website tracks licentious purchases made using mobile-payment app Venmo.
- See also: How to assemble a charcuterie platter at your corner 7-Eleven.
