January 5, 2016

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With five months left to do anything, Obama is pushing nearly 4,000 new regulations through bureaucracy.

Obama’s executive actions on guns will expand federal background checks.

See also: How federal background checks work.

The process of buying a gun in California, which has some of the harshest gun laws in the country.

“A state that allows its agents to kill, to beat, to tase, without any real sanction, has ceased to govern.”

Though the press stirred up a frenzy, crime in New York City fell across the board in 2015.

All crime rose in 2015 in Los Angeles, with violent crime jumping almost 20%.

Homicides in Chicago rose to almost 470 in 2015, the most in the US.

The armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge fits right in with other examples of violent Mormon extremism.

See also: The origins of Oregon as a racist white utopia.

Over the past decade, legal American guns have killed more Mexicans than Afghan or Iraqi citizens.

TMN’s Melissa Batchelor Warnke profiles a lifelong addict, now sober at 60 for the first time in his life.

Facebook tested user loyalty by sabotaging its Android app to crash for hours at a time.

Inside the Facebook algorithm.

“Nebraska’s use and policies regarding juvenile solitary confinement truly shock the conscience.”

What happens when racial hatred intersects with Texas’s Stand Your Ground Law.

Pentagon curbs use of psychologists at Guantánamo following American Psychological Association ethics ruling.

What did David Bowie do at your age?