March 31, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Assessment of mortal threats currently faced by nearly every significant initiative of the Obama Presidency.
- Governor, Indiana is in a state of crisis. It is worse than you seem to understand.
- Douthat: There's no reason to think we’ve reached a stopping point once the florists and bakers have been fined or closed down.
- Federal investigators in the Silk Road case arrested for profiting off of seized Bitcoin.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explains how a joyous embrace of Islam threw off a world that thought it could define him.
- Singaporean teen mocks departed leader, is promptly arrested.
- Systemic inequality, not individual decisions or universal human behaviors, said to be at the root of environmental destruction.
- Deaths of train passengers falling onto tracks are increasing; a simple design change could help prevent them.
- Among male musicians, accidental death accounts for almost 20% of all deaths; metal musicians specifically: 36%.
- Book reviewing is a game of outperforming the author.
- For some of "los frikis" in Cuba, being punk meant injecting yourself with HIV.
- Tobacco taxes fund preschool in California, and the decline in smoking is causing a serious revenue shortfall.
- Stephen Hawking wants to trademark his name and use proceeds to benefit ALS research.
- For those with a rare and scientifically controversial condition, everything from Wi-Fi to electricity can cause unbearable pain.
- Piketty in micro: Baseball players' rising salaries mask a plummeting overall share of industry profits.
- We've fixed almost everything that can go wrong on a plane; when things do go wrong, they go wrong in entirely unpredictable ways.
- Final day of the 2015 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes: Station Eleven and All the Light We Cannot See.
