The jury that convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing was biased before the trial even started, a wave of suicides is sweeping through a town in California and an activist works toward getting women to “free the nipple.” These discoveries and more below.

Boston Bombing Jury Was Already Biased The lengthy jury-selection process in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused in the Boston Marathon bombing, wasn’t like ordinary jury selection: It included an ideological litmus test.

Do We Have a Gang Problem or a Gun Problem? In a scathing critique of ABC’s recent report “Young Guns,” Dana Loesch stated that most gun deaths were the result of gang violence; therefore, America has a gang problem, not a gun problem.

A Creative Way to Stop Your Kids from Spending Too Much Time Playing Video Games World of Warcraft — WoW, to many — debuted in late 2004. Just under a decade later, the online, virtual universe announced that players had created over 100 million accounts over the game’s lifetime.

Southwest Airlines Refused to Let Woman Use Cellphone to Save Her Husband’s Life A Wisconsin woman is looking for answers after she said Southwest Airlines refused to let her use her cellphone to make a call that could have saved her husband’s life.

Stunning Images of Deep Sea Creatures Researchers released stunning images of deep sea creatures, including some that don’t even have names.

I Spent Sixteen Hours in Manhattan Criminal Court The Manhattan Criminal Court, a few blocks away from City Hall in Lower Manhattan, was just opening, a handful of New Yorkers sitting silently on the wooden benches outside of their respective chambers squinting at brightly-lit phones.

I’m Not Making This Up: Corporations Use Trade Deals To Attack U.S. Law President Obama says progressives who warn that trade laws let corporations overrule U.S. law are “making this stuff up.”

Meet the Activist Who Wants Women Everywhere to ‘Free the Nipple’ Most American cities are full of breasts. They are everywhere: On billboards. On storefronts. On buildings. But if you look closely, there’s consistently one thing missing: nipples.

Obama’s Cognitive Dissonance on Trade It’s been more than twenty years since the United States entered its last big trade agreement, with the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

The Plot Against Trains The horrific Amtrak derailment outside Philadelphia this week set off some predictable uncertainty about what exactly had happened.

Why Are Palo Alto’s Kids Killing Themselves? A panicked town struggles with a wave of suicides.

The Trials of Hannah Arendt Many have delighted in judging Hannah Arendt, maybe because they have feared her judgment.

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