The 2014 Good Gift Games
Board games are a gift that keeps on giving—the best of the bunch provide hours of fun for years on end. But when a new crop of great games arrives every year, how can you choose? This is how.
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A collection of 14232 issues
Of Fish and Farmers
Consider the Delta smelt: an old fish in California, endemic to the upper Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary, now caught between its home and thousands of drought-stricken acres.
December 2, 2014
* Obama announces federal funding for police body cameras and tighter guidelines on military weapons for law enforcement. * Yesterday thousands joined #HandsUpWalkOut to mark the hour Michael Brown was murdered. * Evidence ISIS has peaked: new losses in battles accompany dissension and infighting among the group's various factions. * Dr. Nadeem
Woman in My Heart
Portraits of a queer community in South India treat gender, biology, art, and family with emotional nuance—no exoticism in sight.
December 1, 2014
* Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong enter their third month, and clashes with police are becoming more violent. * Online and in-store purchases over Thanksgiving dropped 11%—Americans could be waiting to spend today, or not at all. * On Black Friday, capitalism cannibalizes culture. * China may miss its economic growth
November 26, 2014
* Nights of protests over Ferguson continue around the country, even overseas. * Toobin: Prosecutor McCulloch gave Wilson’s case special treatment, which summarizes the real shame of his approach. * Ferguson prosecutor inveighs against the Twitterverse. * This is America: You're supposed to play by the broken rules until you can
November 25, 2014
* How Darren Wilson avoided indictment: The struggle with Michael Brown shifted between homicide and self defense. * Examine for yourself the evidence available to the grand jury in Ferguson. * A point-by-point explanation of how the law protects police officers who kill unarmed citizens. * Why Darren Wilson was never going
We Don’t Eat It Here
People living in countries that aren’t the US explain the meaning of Thanksgiving, from the splendor of “harvest day” to the tradition that is gun violence.
Melting Away
Incredible photographs from 10 years of documenting the quickly changing landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, where no two icebergs are alike.
November 24, 2014
* Unable to reach an agreement in Iran nuclear talks, negotiators push deadline to March 1, 2015. * US air strikes in Syria are encouraging anti-regime fighters to forge alliances with or even defect to ISIS. * After serving six years of a 19-year sentence, the Iranian blogger movement founder has