From Edge, the latest Annual Question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? Jen Larsen on a cultural history of satirical cartoons and censorship. Hey France, don’t do what we did after 9/11. Roberto Orsi on Europe’s future and jihad. From The North Star, where did Spain’s Podemos party come from, and where is it going? Louis Proyect investigates; and Matt Hoke on an American Podemos (and part 2). Ron Rosenbaum on the radical paradox of Martin Luther King’s devotion to nonviolence: Taylor Branch makes a timely argument about civil right leader’s true legacy. What, to the black American, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Chris Lebron investigates. Happy Robert E. Lee Day: Jamelle Bouie on why some states can’t celebrate MLK without remembering the Confederate general, too. Scott Beauchamp on fear, the ultimate trump card: America has a long legacy of dressing up its xenophobia in the cheap costume jewelry of law and order. The real state of the union, in 33 maps and charts. Graeme Wood on why we fear and admire the military sniper: Since long before American Sniper, we’ve had deeply conflicted feelings about the man who shoots to kill. Quad Partners, a New York private equity firm that is invested heavily in the for-profit college industry, and whose founder has aggressively opposed regulation of that troubled industry, has acquired a controlling stake in Inside Higher Ed, which often reports on for-profit colleges and the policy disputes surrounding them.
