* The UN/African Union mission purposefully misled the public about the worsening situation in Darfur. * Prominent female Republican argues increasing men's job prospects is the best way to ensure women's economic—and marital—happiness. * The landscape of hate groups and hate crimes in the US. * India
Twice a year, a group of friends gathered in a coal-mining pocket of Pennsylvania—friends in their twenties with fragile identities, who didn’t know yet what would happen.
* Tension high in Ukraine as authorities announce an "anti-terrorist operation" against pro-Russian separatists. * If you live in Russia and you think Crimea now belongs to the motherland, this map tells you that you're right. * California contract killer "Mano Negra" busted after a
Photographs of life inside a mining boom, from Montana to Texas, that’s producing a new, modern version of the Wild West.
* According to the UN's climate change report, for Earth to remain habitable we must cut carbon emissions to "near zero" by 2100. * The global economic crisis of 2007 and 2008 temporarily reduced emissions but didn't change the trend, the report says. * UN suggests fracking
* Seymour Hersh on Obama's secret "rat line," funneling weapons from Turkey to the Syrian opposition, including some jihadists. * Related: Photographer finds art in a parking lot of retired B-52 bombers. * The fewer babies Americans give birth to, the more small dogs they appear to buy.
* Pro-Russia citizens of Eastern Ukraine take over buildings and wait for Russia, feeling exposed. * Helpful, relatively brief primer on the recent saga of Ukraine, Putin, and the West's culpability. * American history told through first pitches thrown by Presidents, from Taft to FDR. * Alabama’s athletic revenues last
Her neighbors remember her as “the bag lady,” but Vivian Maier was secretly a street photographer who would leave behind an artistic trove that captured the public’s imagination.
* One in six Americans can find Ukraine on a map; the farther away people guessed, the more likely they were to support intervention. * At least 20 students stabbed in a Pittsburgh area high school. * Low-income housing in Los Angeles has evolved from dull, ugly buildings to some of the
Dreams of a Matalin-Carville romance tempt a young Washington journalist covering the death of a dictator to cross party lines in pursuit of love.
