January 20, 2016
- In 21 states during 2014, gun deaths outnumbered car deaths. [pdf]
- Drug overdoses are the cause of a recent spike in deaths among young, white people.
- California has the most death row inmates in the US, hasn't executed anyone in a decade, but won't end the death penalty.
- Google News owns trust, Facebook owns news distribution, and journalism is left out in the cold.
- Putting UChicago's recent decision to open the South Side of Chicago's only trauma center in its racial and political context.
- UN document shows an organization woefully unprepared to deal with continued genocide in Burundi.
- Human Rights Watch accuses Western businesses operating in Palestinian territories of complicity in land theft.
- The Koch Brothers' rebranding machine.
- The number of billionaires whose wealth equals half the world's population shrunk by 84% in the last five years.
- European policies only worsened the migration and refugee crisis in 2015.
- MI5 named the UK's most LGBTQ-friendly employer.
- An oral history of Now That's What I Call Music!
- The genius of Wile E. Coyote, painstakingly explained.
- Fans of Archy Marshall (aka King Krule) will like knowing about his lifetime of creating with his brother Jack.