July 6, 2015

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Today South Carolina lawmakers will start deciding the fate of the State House’s Confederate flag.

Reminder: The US Capitol is still full of statues of Confederates.

NASCAR fans at Daytona proudly display Confederate flags that have “absolutely nothing to do with slavery.”

Fear, not freedom, defines America for many, including Ta-Nehisi Coates—and, he fears, his son.

“Germany is the country that has never repaid its debts. It has no standing to lecture other nations.”

Economists doubt finances behind a flurry of record-setting healthcare mergers and acquisitions.

An Indian state is in turmoil as hundreds killed in Mafia-like fallout from education scandal.

You have been a weak President, despite your strutting and barking. Nader’s letters to the president.

America’s fetish for automation is putting nuclear safety at risk.

Burt Shavitz, cofounder of Burt’s Bees, dies at 80.

In the long run, I got the land, and land is everything. A year ago, Burt Shavitz’s tell-all documentary debuted.

“In Vermont, any road that was ever officially entered into a town’s record books remains legally recognized, indefinitely.”

Most of the time, weird news is snarky Mencken. Less commonly found: sympathy.