May 6, 2015

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Baltimore residents notice strange planes that turn out to be providing surveillance support from FBI to police.

Doonesbury‘s Garry Trudeau: Great satire doesn’t demean disenfranchised minorities, it attacks the powerful.

Iranian-Americans confounded by census race questions that code them as white despite generations of exclusion.

Harry Reid threatens to filibuster “Fast Track” if highways aren’t taken care of first—he’s only one of many looking to get a slice of TPP.

Though most of the attacks on the Clinton Foundation are bunk, that doesn’t invalidate transparency concerns.

Undecided UK voter? There’s an app for that.

How mandatory drug sentencing created a generation of aging, ailing inmates.

It’s shown me how to work on patience. Labyrinths are becoming a new kind of therapy.

For the first time, scientists capture an acoustic image of a thunderclap—by creating an artificial lightning bolt.

Astronomers measure the distance to the farthest—and therefore oldest—known galaxy.

The leaving New York essay to end all leaving New York essays probably doesn’t involve leaving New York at all.

Moving to a better neighborhood as a toddler boosts children’s welfare; transitioning while a teen could do opposite.

A calorie-counting smart plate embodies everything wrong with tech’s solutionist mindset.

Mark Zuckerberg just became one of its largest investors. The private Silicon Valley school that’s hacking education.

On rediscovering Jane Fonda’s workout videos and reconnecting with a lost parent.