November 4, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Winning the Senate might be GOP's worst nightmare: pressures of governing could tear obstructionist element asunder.
- Non-Republicans will be watching elections across the country for polling place irregularities—i.e., voter ID problems.
- See also: A reading of US newspaper opinion sections shows the misinformation at the heart of the voter ID conflict.
- Conor Friedersdorf: Obama's seven sins, mostly in national security, run counter to the way he campaigned.
- WHO leader accuses profit-driven pharmaceutical industry for lack of Ebola cure.
- For the rich, Hurricane Sandy was a blip in everyday life; for the poor, it exacerbated inequality in ways that echo two years later.
- Bloomberg's legal team proactively snatches up more than 400 new .nyc domain names.
- US government made tacit agreement with Ferguson PD to close down airspace, restrict news team helicopters.
- In the past 10 years, 370 journalists have been killed around the world.
- For the first time a Japanese malt is rated the world's best whisky, according to the Whisky Bible.
- Why hipsters eventually look the same: To remain early adopters, their identities must remain in flux, which is impossible.
- On Chris Rock: No one ever suggests that a successful director branch out into standup comedy, so as not to be considered “just” a filmmaker.
- Frozen is The Shining.
- A law professor is researching how the public misunderstands—or is manipulated into misunderstanding—science.
- The creative output of...young, poor, black and brown men is not being treated by the US government as protected speech.
