* Hundreds of "drunk and aggressive" men molested women in a New Year's attack in Germany, stirring tension over refugees. * Susan Sarandon reports on the refugee crisis. * How each presidential candidate must perform in the early states in order to win their nominations. * Navigating the personal, legal,
Michael Chanan’s portrait of Pierre Boulez, The Politics of Music (1972), documented the composer’s quest to move classical music out of the concert halls and into public spaces. One of the 20th century’s most significant composers, Pierre Boulez, died this week at 90.
When five million people share your name, your Google-ability is miserably low. Will this forever change naming?
* With five months left to do anything, Obama is pushing nearly 4,000 new regulations through bureaucracy. * Obama's executive actions on guns will expand federal background checks. * See also: How federal background checks work. * The process of buying a gun in California, which has some of the harshest
The World Cup and its drunken fans are about to crash head-first into a repressive, restrictive society, where alcohol is illegal mostly everywhere.
* Hate won 2015. * DHS is preparing to deport "hundreds" of Central American families who fled violence this month. * At least 83 people deported by the Obama administration to Central America in 2014 were murdered. * Obama will soon announce executive actions on gun control. * Executions in Saudi Arabia reach
Why we like the music we do is a matter of personal history—and in at least one case, a profound experience of hearing David Bowie.
* The Coalfield Development Corporation brings affordable housing, employment, and mentoring to Appalachia. * People for Bikes lobbies for a five-fold increase in biking in America by 2025. * Five-step checklist for maximizing your year-end donations. * See also: Charity Navigator's guide to great gift-giving. * GiveDirectly lets you
* Failures of Obama—and Bush before him—have created, for the first time, an unabashedly liberal Democratic Party. * Democrats reluctant to embrace millennial black voters don’t understand the numbers behind the movement. * "Starting Saturday, tribes can claim jurisdiction over non-Native men who commit crimes of domestic violence.
* Grand jury decides not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland. * CBS edits debate focus-group footage to exclude Muslim-American commentary critical of American militarism. * Are Shkreli’s antics—not far from Big Pharma’s usual practices—enough to bring the industry to heel? * T-shirts already
