March 15, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Putin pulls Russia out of Syria, either because Assad’s rule is secure again, or he no longer cares.
- War in Syria has made refugees of some 2.4 million children.
- Four Egyptian children charged with blasphemy for mocking ISIS.
- Summary of issues at stake for Democrats today in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina.
- China paper says the rise of a certain “abusively racist and extremist” candidate means democracy is dangerous.
- Experts say using "neanderthal" to mean "brutish and stupid" is baseless and insulting.
- A "bony-eared assfish” is an eel-like fish that resembles a "glorified tadpole."
- Japanese prefecture posts job opening for PR ninja, hoping to promote “warlord tourism.”
- By 2100, between four and 13 million Americans will be displaced by rising sea levels.
- Americans bought more legal pot than Girl Scout cookies in 2015.
- Vermont poised to be the first state to legalize cannabis by state legislature.
- State prison overpopulation in Minnesota causes officials to ship prisoners to county jails.
- Long-running Minnesota study shows young people feeling increasingly anxious since the 1930s.
- Children and parents rebel against public school weigh-ins and BMI screening.
- As much as we idealize our revolutionary roots as empire beaters, we have become the empire, and we really like it. In other words, brace yourselves, fellow citizens: America is Duke.
- In today's edition of the Tournament of Books, Choire Sicha meets A Little Life and The New World.
- Final day to get your official ToB T-shirt, from book designer Janet Hansen.
- How much would it cost to buy one of everything on Amazon? $12.86 billion.
- NRA uses the Flint water crisis to hawk “patriotic” survivalist bottled water.
- DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz joins Republicans trying to gut regulations of predatory payday lenders.
- Smartphone-based conversational agents are not great at recognizing users' pleas for help, scientists find.
