September 30, 2015
- Germany is relaxing housing standards to a questionable degree to absorb wave of migrants.
- Super PACs openly skirt campaign law by filming ad footage in advance or releasing it for free.
- Trump's deficit-inflating, bourgeoisie-friendly tax plan is everything he said it wouldn't be—and par for the GOP.
- Growing up Marxist.
- The UK doesn’t let parents choose to have deaf children, but they should.
- Government enlists Snapchat and Zero Dark Thirty for soft power against ISIS.
- If Mars has liquid water, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty forbids us from tampering with it, for fear of earthly contamination.
- Self-driving cars are a public health victory in the making—they’ll save as many lives as seat belts have.
- By tomorrow, all US retailers must upgrade their card readers, or they'll be liable for counterfeit charges.
- It’s Banned Book Week, but “there is basically no such thing as a banned book in the United States in 2015.”
- Watch a Brazilian soccer ref pull a pistol during an on-field dispute.
- The art of the blurb is in a blighted state.
- Meet the "Sleep No More" fanatics.
- This year’s MacArthur Fellows include Ta-Nehisi Coates and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
- One MacArthur genius documents the African American experience in the Rust Belt.
- Another is implementing a model citizenship and jobs assistance program for Latino immigrants.
- Robots can't assemble IKEA furniture either.