October 16, 2015
- Even if Russia is in Syria to further prop up Assad, so far it hasn't achieved much toward that goal.
- US special ops analysts knew the hospital in Kunduz was a hospital.
- Homeland is TV's most Islamophobic show.
- Homeland graffiti artist: "This kind of stereotyping...helps form people's perceptions of an entire region."
- World Bank projects displace indigenous people.
- Elephant poachers in Zimbabwe are using cyanide, causing agonizing deaths for their prey and other predators.
- After thousands of years of coexistence, elephants' capacity to cry for freedom still shocks humans.
- Corporate America is trying to get rid of workers' comp.
- The FEC has become a "rancorous, demoralized, and polarized bystander to our cash-drenched elections."
- Thirty-three years after launching, the right-wing Washington Times achieves profitability.
- The collection agencies utilities use to recoup owed money target lower-class black neighborhoods.
- The LAPD has skewed violent crime statistics for eight years.
- Disney is hiring an anti-terror intern.
- Nickelodeon taught kids about AIDS in a powerful, humane way.
- Before we figured out pulsars, we posited they were alien beacons—that's right, we're alone in the universe.
- College football coach stargazes to inspire new offensive formations.
- Sam Mendes interviews A-list directors.
- A brief history of "robust."