January 27, 2016

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French justice minister steps down, protesting plan to strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship.

Standoff in Oregon ends with both Bundys arrested after brief shootout.

Dead Oregon militaman told NBC he’d rather die than go to prison.

Trump to boycott Fox News’ Republican debate, calling host Megyn Kelly “totally obsessed” with him.

Twitter bot publishes bios of people who retweet Donald Trump.

In an attempt to find brown folks to take direction from, white folks often end up tokenizing a specific group whose politics most match their own.

Denmark will confiscate valuables and cash to deter refugees at the border. 

Fox Searchlight buys The Birth of a Nation for $17.5 million, Sundance’s biggest sale ever.

Continuing the rapper vs. science saga, B.o.B. insults Tyson on diss track; Tyson calls rapper “regressed.”

Traditional black funeral homes losing out to chains and cremation.

Journalist learns how to embalm a body.

I am the living example of what drones are. Victim of Obama’s first strike, now blinded, campaigns against drones.

On the terrible responsibility of translating, from Russian, a novel that nearly got its author killed.

Amherst drops “Lord Jeff” mascot, named for British general who endorsed giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans

University of Michigan journalist tries out for football team, doesn’t make it.

Iran is the largest economy to return to the global marketplace since the Soviet Union’s demise. US poised to miss out on world’s biggest new market.

James Deen’s assault allegations loom over the “Oscars of porn,” but many just want to forget.

Multiple regression analysis is the go-to tool for correlation in public statistics, but It should come with a warning label.

Washing machines for everyone are uneconomical and inefficient, but probably not going anywhere.

Ursula was a singular Disney villain, and behind the animated tentacles was a real-life, big-haired, poo-eating Baltimore drag queen named Divine.