November 5, 2014
By The Morning News
—
- Yesterday's GOP victory began months ago, when Republicans realized they had to quell the extremism within their party.
- How the GOP did it.
- The Senate now has enough votes to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
- Penal reform passes in California, downgrading some nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, and potentially releasing 10,000 inmates.
- Yesterday Oregon and Washington, DC, voted to legalize recreational marijuana.
- Weeks after 43 Mexican students went missing, the mayor of Iguala and his wife are arrested.
- Between 1929 and 1974 North Carolina sterilized at least 7,600 people; last week the state began financial reparation to the victims.
- Ninety-year-old man faces possible prison time for feeding the homeless in Fort Lauderdale.
- "Alex From Target" was staged by a youth marketing startup focused on social influencers—without Target's knowledge.
- Governments sought 24% more data from Facebook in 34,496 different requests in the first half of 2014.
- As human behavior is tracked and merchandized on a massive scale, the Internet of Things creates the perfect conditions to bolster and expand the surveillance state.
- Reddit's content policing problem is coming to a head; the moral user's simplest option may also be the best: leave.
- In 1919, a Baptist obsessively illustrated his interpretation of the Book of Revelations.
- The writer’s dread is that the tide will go out and stay out.
- Steven Pinker's new grammar confounds aesthetics and style, piles pedantry on pedantry.
- Cord Jefferson: Even the most familiar places feel like a jail cell when someone you love... is sharing with you that they’re worried the poison growing in their chest will eventually kill them.
