October 15, 2015
- Obama to halt Afghanistan withdrawal, where troops have now been deployed for 14 years.
- Obama sends 300 troops to Cameroon to aid the fight against Boko Haram.
- Russian hackers attribute their NATO server attacks to Islamic militants—they didn't reckon on getting caught.
- Russian strikes in Syria give Putin a chance to show off new weaponry—and the West a chance to notice.
- Interview with Mosul Eye, secret blogger of life under IS.
- Clinton's Snowden stance betrays a lack of whistleblower law knowledge—or a skin-deep dedication to civil liberties.
- The Democratic debate was fundamentally shaped by five years of post-Occupy protesting.
- Chinese environment advocates may have a rhetorical foothold: air pollution's damage to male fertility.
- Group waving Confederate flags beside birthday party indicted on terror charges.
- Why it's the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.
- Legal hurdles await surge of personal rating apps, from Chinese “social credit” programs to Klout and Peeple.
- The web doesn’t have the perfect memory we assume it will—innovation could wipe the slate clean.
- "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build."
- Salvation won’t come from any ethical program, even Peter Singer’s altruism.
- An interview with billionaire preppers' outfitter of choice.
- See also: "Doomsday Slackers."
- Nancy Drew never mentioned Hollywood, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t commerce between them.
- Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet is streaming live from London to a movie theater near you today.
- "[Cumberbatch] looks from a distance like he's wearing an opera mask of someone even more handsome than himself."
- Dig near Stongehenge finds evidence of the stone movers' meals: meat, cheese, and possibly yogurt.
- Last night, Toronto nearly rioted over baseball. (Not hockey!)