September 8, 2015
- Following the entry of 20,000 migrants into Germany, Merkel implores EU to accept its fair share of asylum seekers.
- The child of a "guest worker" in Germany in the '90s knows how short-lived the goodwill can be.
- As Europe struggles with one of its largest humanitarian crises in decades, far-right parties will likely reap the benefits.
- Photos of what Syrian refugees carry in their bags.
- The smugglers leading migrants to uncertain fates are more concerned with profit than safety.
- Philosophers on the refugee crisis.
- Suspect in bizarre kidnapping case confesses "off the record" to reporter, while the FBI eavesdropped.
- Italy's supreme court: Amanda Knox's murder conviction was the result of prosecutors' "glaring errors."
- The 2007 murder launched an international media frenzy and landed Knox and her boyfriend in jail for years.
- A three-year study of 650 people shows an HIV prevention pill appears to be effective.
- Vets dismissed for being gay seek honorable discharge—finding correct documentation is all but impossible.
- Kansas faces possible shutdown of entire judicial branch after district court ruling.
- With state universities floundering, it's time to tax university endowments—Harvard's just hit $36 billion.
- Bay Area renters' group sues suburb to direct attention to other locales with nonexistent affordable housing.
- Soviet bus stops in Siberia oddly resemble Burning Man.
- People dancing at Burning Man could register a 0.5 on the Richter scale.
- Ken Burns's Civil War documentary 25 years later: preoccupied with battle strategy while avoiding hard truths.
- Before the world knew the Nazis' intent, UK and US home magazines fawned over Hitler.
- "Many American settler leaders have been deafeningly silent on recent acts of Jewish terrorism."
- "Rap music" according to journalists from the early '80s.
- How Dragon Ball Z became a hip-hop touchstone.