February 9, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Defying federal law, Alabama Chief Justice orders judges not to award marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
- Leaders will convene in Minsk to iron out differences driving Ukraine conflict; solution could include a DMZ.
- In "Grexit" drama, internal opposition girds Greece's finance minister against easy answers to Eurozone demands.
- Leaked records show HSBC profits from arms dealers, diamond traffickers, dictators, and other criminals.
- Overzealous DAs are behind our exploding prison population—not mandatory minimums or the war on drugs.
- Ten years into China's purported sexual revolution, change—driven by consumerism and the web—runs against politics.
- Welcome to the age of neomedievalism, where private security contractors rival state-managed armies.
- Gendered-language database trawls RateMyProfessor to show how students evaluate men and women differently.
- Fate after God.
- My hair became the crux of my racial identity, neither black nor white nor anything plainly recognizable.
- 54's director gets his original cut, 17 years after he was pressured into a gay-free story with a happy ending.
- The real music industry action isn't the Grammys, but that copyright and royalty rates are being renegotiated.
- Every Grammy-winning Record of the Year, rated and reviewed.
- High-fidelity headphones and antidepressants help a writer hear music in an entirely new way.
- Talking to yourself can reduce anxiety and help focus, but only if you avoid referring to yourself in the first person.
- Since her techie father's death, executrix Jessamyn West has been reverse-engineering his DIY smart home.
- Because unschooling doesn't scale, some Silicon Valley families are disrupting homeschooling.
- Paul Ford will present at tonight's IRL Club at the Bell House in Brooklyn.
