December 21, 2015

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New Star Wars film has biggest opening in movie history despite not opening in China yet.

In Spain, Podemos party surges as two formerly dominant parties both lose votes for the first time in Spanish democracy.

How Israel is trying to restore domestic safety—steps the Palestinians call vindictive and overreaching.

Debates prove that Democrats like modern America, Republicans prefer ye olde America.

Trump in a general election battle with Hillary would have several potentially devastating advantages.

Clinton’s Trumpian nonsense answers on cybersecurity show Dems have weird ideas about the internet, too.

See also: Web law shouldn’t assume parents can give consent for children.

In the Netherlands, it’s legal to offer driving lessons in return for sex, but illegal to offer sex in return for lessons.

Automation isn’t a neutral, inevitable part of capitalism. Is automation going to facilitate or stymie the revolution?

Oberlin students accuse dining halls of serving racially inauthentic, microaggressive meals.

Reproducibility problems in clinical genetics create major consequences for thousands of families.

Diversity in science needs more than pointing to a few stars of color.

In a post-colonial America, citizenship is complicated; time to address the “mismatch between constitutional theory and national reality.”

I’m using my torch to light other torches. The best feminist quotes of 2015, from Ms..

Horrifying story of a Toronto millionaire who, by dying, convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible.

Ten startling facts found in books this year—like how London’s fogs once reduced visibility to nothing indoors.

It’s been a quiet year for the French Hens. Price indices for ladies dancing, lords leaping, pipers piping.