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"Explaining white privilege to a broke white person"

"Lawyer and legal analyst Lisa Bloom on the sham indictment proceedings against Darren Wilson"

"In fact, we have just the opposite problem: things can become feeding frenzies even if no one really wants them to be. That's because they can go viral with no central organization at all. Each individual who tweets or blogs or Facebooks their outrage thinks of this as a purely personal response. Just a quick way to kill a few idle minutes. But ( Read more... )

"My niece is a teenage Instagram celebrity."

"Of the 17,958 people who died in terrorist attacks in 2013, 82 percent were in one of five countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Syria."

Millennials, by the numbers.

"Look: Republicans can decide for themselves if they want to go to war. If they want to pass yet another bill repealing Obamacare, that's fine. If they want to sue the president over the EPA or immigration, that's fine. If they want to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, that's fine. I assume Obama will win some of these battles and lose others, but ( Read more... )

Details emerge about HBO's Westworld series.

To prove a point about sexism, an male Australian newscaster wears the same suit for a year to see if anyone makes a comment. No one notices.

FRIDAY FIVE:
* "The richest 0.1 percent is about to control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent."
* Key takeaways on the big climate change deal with China.
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Turing, the Arab Spring, and "RATS": digging into the revived card game Netrunner and why it's important, right now.