March 4, 2015
- Amid steelworker negotiations, Shell announces plan to deploy scabs at refineries nationwide by summer.
- An al Qaeda founder-turned-spy tells how he indoctrinated new Islamist recruits and how theology drove him to leave.
- Air pollution concerns spur talk of a "Silent Spring" in China—but the air is just as bad in other parts of world.
- A warming climate is pushing America's breadbasket steadily northward.
- Taped evidence disproves O'Reilly's story that he was nearby when Lee Harvey Oswald's associate killed himself.
- Money is at the center of the state-by-state struggle to raise the age of who counts as an adult.
- Alabama Supreme Court orders judges not to order same-sex marriage licenses, contrary to federal court ruling.
- Life for LGBT Egyptians has gotten much harder after Mohamed Morsi was ousted in 2013.
- Reddit's SuicideWatch forum is a valuable resource for a key demographic: young men.
- From goat cheese to stuffed animals, prison labor is (deliberately) hidden in plain sight.
- Sweet Briar College will close, citing declining interest in women's colleges, liberal arts, and rural campuses.
- College lawyers use post-rape therapy records against victims.
- Schools who help foster the view that orphanages are good may inadvertently harm children into the future.
- Human waste left by the hundreds of climbers who attempt Everest every year is becoming a health hazard.
- A guide to the internet's biggest hoax purveyors.
- The Americans misses the mark by criticizing consumerism rather than capitalism.
- Get ready for the 2015 Tournament of Books: five days left to pre-order your Rooster tee.
- Alex Ross on the Academy's taste in soundtracks, and what gets overlooked.