December 18, 2015

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Writers, editors, and thinkers reflect on things that were and were not important in 2015.

Encyclopedia for much of what was discussed this past year in the District of Columbia.

Election to head of government is associated with a substantial increase in mortality risk.

DNC suspends Sanders campaign’s access to its voter database, accusing it of snooping on Clinton’s confidential voter information.

Sanders says Clinton’s support of regime change in Libya encouraged ISIS’s rise.

Sanders reaches two million individual donors, nearly besting Obama’s 2012 record.

It’s no mistake the only Republicans elected president since 1960 have come from California and Texas.

Republican elites won’t let Ted Cruz’s immigration views near the White House.

Compared to the conversations about Trump’s policies during the last few months, Rubio-Cruz is like Lincoln-Douglas.

The future of journalism is in interlocking systems, and other predictions for next year.

Brooklyn’s favorite chocolate-making brothers, supposedly “bean to bar,” accused of melting down other makers’ candy.

Paul Bloom encourages you—with scientific evidence—to just chill with your self-consciousness: no one’s really paying attention.

Bottom drops out of the antiques market, and recovery’s unlikely anytime soon.

Profile of Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, driven by belief her side would win a national political crisis.

For two million dollars, Nicki Minaj to perform tomorrow for murderous Angolan dictator-for-life.

Democratic institutions in South Africa, smashed up by Zuma, require preservation.

Wife of Australian pro golfer removed from Cavaliers game on a stretcher after LeBron James crashes into her.

As movie studios continue to tap the vein of sequels, they grow more conservative, and “the desire to prey upon the faithful will only be worse.”

Breaking up is hard to do, and revenge is even more fraught, and delicious.

“You don’t seem to understand the basic truth of art.” Rebecca Solnit: “Men Explain Lolita to Me.”