October 5, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Round-up of the big questions facing the Supreme Court's new term that begins today.
- California police arrest four high-school students after uncovering a shooting plot.
- Gun advocates have yet to explain how something in the American psychology, rather than our high volume of firearms, explains our homicide rate.
- Clinton says she would impose stricter controls on firearms sold at gun shows.
- Fact: Guns bought for personal protection are far more likely to kill or injure an innocent person when used.
- Mutiny, brought on by internal executions, may be the downfall of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.
- Google drops "Don't be evil" as it morphs into Alphabet; now it's "Do the right thing."
- We thought our work would mobilize public opinion. But the politicians want to turn the page and negotiate with Bashar al-Assad.
- Two years after the Rana Plaza fire, 61 percent of H&M's "best" factories in Bangladesh don't have safe fire exits.
- Flooding in South Carolina kills at least seven.
- How the Obama Presidential Library's location selection was rigged, and how it will displace nearby residents on Chicago's South Side.
- All the trash generated by Americans for the next 1,000 years could fit on one-tenth of 1% of the land available for grazing.
- When the USPS loses your mail, it gets sold off in a secretive auction in Atlanta.
- Jess Stoner fulfilled a lifelong dream of being a USPS mail carrier. Then she discovered how awful it is.
- Lamenting the end of Pipes, Yahoo’s attractively simple pre-app coding platform.
- Even in the wacky world of weed law, turning down invitations involving the sacred networking sport of golf is still professional suicide.
- See also: William F. Buckley's FBI file.
- Normalization of Hitler and the Nazis has taken three principal forms: universalization, relativization, and aestheticization.
- Stonewall is too focused on its made-up heteronormative lead character to care about its own (lack of) politics.
