September 29, 2014
- Thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to Hong Kong's streets, leading the city to deploy tear gas for the first time in years.
- What Hong Kong's protests and Beijing's response share: They could force the public to choose whether to accept China's influence.
- Rescuers in Japan are still searching for survivors of a volcanic eruption suspected to have killed 31.
- Leaving religious communities can result in increased blood pressure or a PTSD-like condition called "religious trauma syndrome."
- How countries must deal with returning ISIS fighters: If they haven't committed any crimes, rehabilitate them.
- Australia's senate passes a bill granting intelligence agency the power to monitor a limitless number of computers with one warrant.
- At the CIA's own Starbucks, baristas get security briefings and customers' names never grace their coffee cups.
- Facebook purges drag queens from its network by forcing a real-name policy on everyone.
- More than a quarter of gay and bisexual men say they have never had an HIV test.
- Why academic writing stinks.
- Three-quarters of American electricity could come from Kansan wind power—but the Koch brothers stand in the way.
- Goldman Sachs tapes show regulators defer to bankers, and won't take action when a stern letter will suffice.
- Madewell as it stands today has almost nothing at all to do with the company founded by my great-grandfather almost 80 years ago.
- Men have underused female pronouns for 400 years.
- Spy fiction is best in its British form, where its heroes don't take themselves so seriously.
- Places to see after you die.
- Gerald Larue, Hemlock Society founder and vanguard of the right-to-die movement, dies at 98.