April 23, 2015

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In politics and business, families still hold power; a Clinton or Bush has been on the ticket in seven of the past nine races.

Senate math favors Democrats. Outline of five factors putting Republican control of the Senate at risk next year.

Jindal: Defending freedom means protecting people who denounce gay marriage.

For a Republican Party struggling to remain relevant to the American mainstream, the fact that it can’t let go of its marriage bigotry is telling.

Family of Michael Brown to file suit against the city of Ferguson.

Minutely radioactive drone found on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister’s office.

Drones are being used to smuggle contraband to inmates, and prison officials don’t know what to do about it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies.”

Migrants who make the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe are met with bureaucracy and homelessness. #photography

I used to think empathy was the all-purpose cleaner for social ills.

Abortion in Florida, adoptions in Kentucky. Analysis of different states’ most popular search queries for goods and services.

Driven by cultural misunderstanding, an adoption boom of Marshallese children springs up in Arkansas.

Americans don’t remember how to write checks anymore—so they turn to Google.

Man fined for shooting his computer eight times, a “glorious” experience.

Today on TMN: Invasion of the Apple Watch is imminent, but some wrists are already spoken for.

See also: Spain is the world’s fastest marathon-running nation, but Iceland’s close on its heels.

I wanted the truth, finally, for me and for my child. On deciding to find one’s birth parents.

Thursday poem: “Written by Himself,” by Gregory Pardlo, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize.