May 20, 2015

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Los Angeles passes $15 minimum wage increase, to be implemented by 2020.

The real question should be: Given what we knew then… On Iraq, candidates flub with “Given what we know now.”

FIFA president proposes Israel-Palestine “peace match” to settle soccer dispute.

Thinking of history by generations is reductive, inaccurate, and always demeans the young. #opinions

Boomers are reinventing how America dies, giving Gen X one last thing to roll its eyes about.

Calls for a Muslim Martin Luther are more concerned with catchy slogans than they are with history. #opinions

Four cancer charities that raised $187 million are total shams, says the Federal Trade Commission.

With $1 million bonds set for each of the 170 arrested bikers, Waco’s court system grinds to a halt.

A history of the Bandidos and biker gangs, who were returning World War II vets flush with severance.

Airbag recall could affect 34 million cars on the road, and officials are scrambling to figure out which ones.

“At most restaurants, you are served what you ask for so routinely that your eyes glaze over with boredom.”

A teacher at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s middle school on teaching Monster, about a teen on trial for murder.

Wise, entertaining, or scandalous: Choose two for any good commencement speech.

The story behind the “wear sunscreen” commencement speech that never was, and wasn’t Vonnegut’s.

New research shows 80% of sunscreens on shelves is either inadequate or even harmful.

L’Oréal—which has been farming tissues since the 1980s—plans to start 3D printing human skin.

When it rains spiders, and sometimes it does, they descend to the ground in self-spun parachutes.