October 22, 2014
- ISIS claims to have received a US weapons drop meant for Kurdish fighters.
- Reports indicate ISIS struggles to meet basic needs of residents, who are kept in line by fear of reprisals.
- Political scientists fail to understand why countries sign human rights treaties they have no intention of following.
- After months of posting on social media about Mexican drug cartel activity, an online journalist's murder was tweeted.
- Superintendents at urban schools need four years to make a difference—but they only last an average of three and a half years.
- Atlantic City, undone by greed and poor economic strategy, is on its way to becoming a failed city.
- Women astronauts are a better choice for a Mars mission: They're lighter and require fewer calories.
- If there is an upside to Gamergate, it's that the evidence for misogyny in gaming is now impossible to deny.
- The Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed are the most- and least-trusted news sources in America, respectively.
- Tributes to the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee.
- I'm a black journalist. I'm quitting because of newsroom racism.
- For stuntpeople of color in Hollywood, discrimination and black-face are far from relics of the past.
- How Silicon Valley is eating the middle class, and widening an already appalling wealth disparity in the US.
- On sex work.
- Kenny G made a smooth appearance at Occupy Central in Hong Kong.
- There's really no such thing as a "non-lethal" weapon.