March 24, 2015
By The Morning News
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- The Senate's treatment of Loretta Lynch confirms its anti-Obama pathology.
- Cities clamoring to host sports franchises siphon off millions of public dollars, but an Obama budget provision would make incentives illegal.
- Related: Sports world imagined without jingoism, racism, sexism, or owners.
- What Ted Cruz would need to do to win.
- See also: Tips and tricks for restaurant success; e.g., doubling a buffet price leads to a leap in perceived quality.
- Quick summary on why Greek default—and the Grexit—looms.
- Ideology is exhausted in the UK, but populism waits eagerly in the wings.
- Interview with a NYU professor banned from the United Arab Emirates, where NYU operates a campus.
- Finland's world-class education system considers most radical revision yet: abandoning disciplines.
- About 400 doctors, the size of an average med school class, kill themselves every year.
- China cracks down on over-enthusiastic "square-dancing"—groups of older women who dance in open spaces.
- Russian people hunt for vandals who wrote "Kant is a moron" on the side of Kant's house.
- Supreme Court to decide whether license plates are protected speech—in this case, a Confederate flag.
- Man exonerated and freed, with a million dollars from the state of Georgia, finds life no fairy tale.
- Twelve-year-old girl accused of trying to poison her mother after the woman took away the girl’s iPhone.
- Glaciers are melting rapidly, and the effect is strangely beautiful.
- Photographs from inside the private lives of bachelorette parties.
- Today in the Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes: Redeployment v. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
- If you're in New York City on March 31, meet up with the Tournament of Books on the night of the championship.
