March 18, 2015
- Netanyahu reelected Prime Minister with 72 percent of Israeli citizens voting.
- Haiti's president Martelly now runs the country without any checks and balances from parliament.
- Presbyterian Church amends constitution to allow gay weddings.
- Druckerman: To succeed at French dinner parties, “you must be a little bit mean but also a little bit vulnerable.”
- Sex education should include pornography so young people know what sex isn't like.
- Most prosthetic limbs are made with men in mind, leaving women with oversize or oddly fitting hands and feet.
- Pressure suits for the "average space traveler" currently being designed in Brooklyn.
- Being a "bestselling author" is a job, and nearly all of those jobs go to white people.
- Second-home-buying “amenity migrants” in Colorado have pushed prices so high that locals can't afford to stay.
- People who can capture amorphous trends with a clarifying label have enormous worth.
- Neurosurgeon who recently passed at 37 from lung cancer explains how time changes when you're about to die.
- NFL linebacker retiring after one season out of fear of head injuries.
- More than two of every five teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament didn't turn a profit last year.
- Nigerian kids trafficked to the United States to play basketball.
- Bhutan had never won an international soccer match until this week, when they won two in a row.
- Sim City's unrealized legacy: Video games are better when they feature systems, not people.
- The Los Angeles Review of Books Channels project launches new literary magazine The Offing.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, Tayari Jones decides between Everything I Never Told You and Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.