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As Shootings Rise in New York, Police Focus on a Small Number of Young Men – The New York Times

The strategy of targeting those believed to be behind the violence, born of years studying the origins of shootings, has intensified this year. Officers on the street, who are recording far fewer arrests and a still plummeting number of stops, are now focusing on a few hundred people who are believed to fuel rounds of… Continue reading As Shootings Rise in New York, Police Focus on a Small Number of Young Men – The New York Times

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Election 2016: Jeb Bush Speech Denouncing Lobbyists Was Organized By Corporate Lobbying Group (via Election 2016: Jeb Bush Speech Denouncing Lobbyists Was Organized By Corporate Lobbying Group)

Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money – Quartz

When basic needs are met, it’s easier to be creative; when you know you have a safety net, you are more willing to take risks. “Many other researchers have replicated the finding that entrepreneurship is more about cash than dash,” University of Warwick professor Andrew Oswald tells Quartz. “Genes probably matter, as in most things… Continue reading Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money – Quartz

Slavery’s Long Shadow

the political scientist Larry Bartels, analyzed the move of the white working class away from Democrats, a move made famous in Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” Mr. Frank argued that working-class whites were being induced to vote against their own interests by the right’s exploitation of cultural issues. But Mr. Bartels showed that… Continue reading Slavery’s Long Shadow

Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll in U.S. Since 9/11 – The New York Times

the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come as a surprise. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims (via Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll in U.S. Since 9/11 – The New York Times) The… Continue reading Homegrown Extremists Tied to Deadlier Toll in U.S. Since 9/11 – The New York Times

The Strange Demise of the Confederate Flag

it is important to note that the incorporation of the Confederate battle flag into Southern state flags and flying it at capitol buildings isn’t some relic of the post-Civil War days. It’s quite new. In most cases it goes back a little over 50 years to the 1950s and early 1960s. In other words, the… Continue reading The Strange Demise of the Confederate Flag

Cops Bought Charleston Suspect Burger King After Arresting Him

Police in Shelby, North Carolina bought a Burger King meal for the white man who allegedly killed nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina after they arrested him Thursday, The Charlotte Observer reported.

Wow. Just wow.

Many in Nation Tired of Explaining Things to Idiots – The New Yorker

While millions have been vexed for some time by their failure to explain basic information to dolts, that frustration has now reached a breaking point.

A question for Richard Dawkins

If you’re one of those people who called this a “witch hunt”, an “Inquisition”, a “lynching” — what would you have people do differently when an esteemed senior scientist gets up to a lectern and says something sexist, or racist, or simply idiotic? (via A question for Richard Dawkins) I want to see the answer… Continue reading A question for Richard Dawkins

Rich Californians balk at limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water’

Yuhas lives in the ultra-wealthy enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, a bucolic Southern California hamlet of ranches, gated communities and country clubs that guzzles five times more water per capita than the statewide average. In April, after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) called for a 25 percent reduction in water use, consumption in Rancho Santa Fe went up by 9 percent.