December 22, 2015

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Grand jury decides not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland.

CBS edits debate focus-group footage to exclude Muslim-American commentary critical of American militarism.

I liken myself to the robber barons. Are Shkreli’s antics—not far from Big Pharma’s usual practices—enough to bring the industry to heel?

T-shirts already available to celebrate the Fed’s recent interest-rate hike.

Gas is at its cheapest since the Great Recession, thanks to Saudi commitment to more oil and lower prices.

Related: Dare we say…cold fusion?

Zero…it has a ring to it. We should aim for no carbon by 2100—simple, more inspiring, and soberly realistic.

From Campaign Zero’s year-end report: 1,152 Americans were killed by police in 2015.

Comparing networks was mathematically intractable until last week.

Greeting people with “Merry Christmas” bothers liberals because “it’s perhaps the single most blatant reminder of just how religious America is.” #opinions

Year’s best basketball dunk was performed in a nearly empty Ontario gym by a 23-year-old Canadian.

This year, yeasts capable of producing spider silk, morphine, and palm oil all made their débuts. Fungal highlights of 2015.

The grime experience is inseparable from the pirate radio experience.

Moving, sad radio story about a man completing a voluntary mission begun by his brother, the dental student killed this year in Chapel Hill, NC.

Lenny Kravitz is in trouble for helping American dentists do charitable (but unlicensed) work abroad.

“One. Two. Ten!” Behind the scenes of Home Alone’s iconic (fake) gangster film, “Angels With Filthy Souls.”

The Raffi article you never knew you needed; e.g., he won’t sing “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” because people are naughty and nice.

The most Texan Texas lawyer commercial ever made. #video