wired: Here’s how sickeningly routine mass shootings...

wired:

Here’s how sickeningly routine mass shootings like Kalamazoo have become in the US. 

MORE. America’s Deadly Gun Addiction, By the Numbers

We have a gun problem, but we’re attacking privacy and personal liberties to combat it. See anything wrong with this picture?

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Obama Says Guantanamo Prison Doesn't Help U.S. Security — 'It Undermines It'

Obama Says Guantanamo Prison Doesn't Help U.S. Security — 'It Undermines It':

npr:

U.S. operation of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility is “contrary to our values” and is seen as “a stain on our broader record” of upholding the highest rules of law, President Obama said Tuesday, calling for closing the prison.

The administration’s plan to close the prison is “not expected to go very far,” as the Two-Way reported earlier today. Devised by the Pentagon, the plan outlines how a shutdown might work – something that was requested by Congress. But it comes months after lawmakers from both parties approved legislation that prohibits the president from moving detainees onto American soil.

President Obama made his case for the plan at a live event at the White House.

No… Really?!? Glad somebody finally figured this out…

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theverynearfuture: A New Candidate America.

theverynearfuture:

A New Candidate

America.

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staff: The more dangerous the cooking method, the more...

staff:

The more dangerous the cooking method, the more delicious the turkey.

I do not understand why people do this.

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npr: “China, China, China,” rants Donald Trump, the...

npr:

“China, China, China,” rants Donald Trump, the presidential hopeful who loses no opportunity to blame America’s economic woes on China and its “unfair” trade policies. But how did the fortunes of the free world and the Middle Kingdom become so inextricably intertwined? What started it all?

The roots of U.S.-China trade can be boiled down to one fragrant little word: tea. The history of the tea trade is a fascinating story of wealth, adventure and cultural exchange, but also a tragic one of human suffering and cruelty.

Although many Americans gave up tea as an unpatriotic beverage after the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and turned to coffee, the majority still craved it. And it was this overwhelming demand for tea that motivated the newly independent United States, finally free from the monopolistic clutches of Britain’s East India Company, to sail to China in search of it.

How A Taste For Chinese Tea Minted America’s First Millionaires

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Caption: A view of Canton (Guangzhou), on the Pearl River in China, circa 1840.

This is a really interesting read, if you’re a history buff.

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"But this election is not going to be about Donald Trump. He thinks it is, but it’s not about him. It..."

“But this election is not going to be about Donald Trump. He thinks it is, but it’s not about him. It has to be about the issues confronting our country. And my sense of it is that every time issues become prominent, he will say something outrageous or do something outrageous so that he doesn’t have to talk about the issues.”

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Sen. Marco Rubio on Donald Trump (via NPR’s Morning Edition)

The thing is, do American’s actually care about the issues? I’m not sure they do.

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How The U.S. Is Neglecting Its Smartest Kids

How The U.S. Is Neglecting Its Smartest Kids:

Yup. This is a real thing.

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