October 5, 2015

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Round-up of the big questions facing the Supreme Court’s new term that begins today.

California police arrest four high-schoool students after uncovering a shooting plot.

Gun advocates have yet to explain how something in the American psychology, rather than our high volume of firearms, explains our homicide rate.

Clinton says she would impose stricter controls on firearms sold at gun shows.

Fact: Guns bought for personal protection are far more likely to kill or injure an innocent person when used.`

Mutiny, brought on by internal executions, may be the downfall of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.

Google drops “Don’t be evil” as it morphs into Alphabet; now it’s “Do the right thing.”

We thought our work would mobilize public opinion. But the politicians want to turn the page and negotiate with Bashar al-Assad.

Two years after the Rana Plaza fire, 61 percent of H&M’s “best” factories in Bangladesh don’t have safe fire exits.

We haven’t seen this level of rain in the Low Country in 1,000 years. Flooding in South Carolina kills at least seven.

How the Obama Presidential Library’s location selection was rigged, and how it will displace nearby residents on Chicago’s South Side.

All the trash generated by Americans for the next 1,000 years could fit on one-tenth of 1% of the land available for grazing.

When the USPS loses your mail, it gets sold off in a secretive auction in Atlanta.

Jess Stoner fulfilled a lifelong dream of being a USPS mail carrier. Then she discovered how awful it is.

Lamenting the end of Pipes, Yahoo’s attractively simple pre-app coding platform.

Even in the wacky world of weed law, turning down invitations involving the sacred networking sport of golf is still professional suicide.

See also: William F. Buckley’s FBI file.

Normalization of Hitler and the Nazis has taken three principal forms: universalization, relativization, and aestheticization.

Stonewall is too focused on its made-up heteronormative lead character to care about its own (lack of) politics. #opinions