October 20, 2014
- Officials declare dozens of people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan are now no longer at risk of Ebola.
- High school dropouts with wealthy backgrounds tend to earn as much as college grads with poorer backgrounds.
- Many, if not most, individual American households possess next to nothing.
- PBS debuts interviews from The Whiteness Project.
- Generations of prejudice led to the systematic—and ongoing—exclusion of black jurors in North Carolina.
- Over the past three decades, the number of Mississippians put behind bars exploded, growing 300%—more than 17 times the population growth.
- "Douchebag" is the white racial slur we've all been waiting for.
- Addressing a decline in membership, the Girl Scouts considers shifting away from its outdoor focus to STEM.
- Pacific Island nations whose habitable land is threatened by rising seas may have to trade their vast maritime rights for asylum.
- Once a staple of election season, US newspapers reconsider endorsements in a hyper-partisan world.
- Chinese government closes children's libraries—possibly because they "emphasize individual values."
- Baltic-Russian tensions remain high as Sweden searches for suspicious foreign submarine spotted off Stockholm.
- An autistic boy befriends AI.
- Possible real-world locations for Sesame Street, and how to get there.
- Stuart Murdoch: "You can read about bands on the internet 'til you're blue in the face, but you really don't know until somebody tells you."