http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/voting-rights-at-risk-in-georgia-20131104

An interesting article at the heals of the supreme courts controversial decision on voting rights. Are these measures aimed at suppressing certain voters, or simply an economic decision?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/world/americas/toronto-mayor-admits-smoking-crack.html?hp&_r=0

Probably the first time I have heard of an elected official getting caught for something like this. Should he step down? Was it a good decision to admit his mistakes?

Do you think that a major event like this should allowed to be run by someone with a prior record of deaths in his establishments? Or is it the responsibility of the patrons?

http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1444313

Personally I love lil B but this article gives more background on him. What do you think of his rise to fame, and is he the real based god? TYBG

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/76890/a-very-rare-night-with-lil-b

The article makes an interesting point, but I can't imagine someone actually enjoying themselves when they are constantly being updated by their social networks. I can imagine a brief period where people would use this technology, but I think it would end up being more aggravating that useful.

Not much of a news story, but interesting given that people continuously call snapchat the "safe" way to sext.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/28/snapchat-nudes_n_3348145.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

The thought of having homeless people in Mill Valley is so foreign to most that they are often judged based on stereotypes that may not be accurate. Props for the patch for exploring her situation, and I hope that this is a situation where coverage like this can help this woman out.

I think that this is just as ethical as posing or a drug dealer or many of the other things that the FBI does. It does bring up an interesting debate though over internet privacy and surveillance. It will be interesting to see how cases like these develop and I anticipate that they will become more commonplace.

Wow. I guess this is what it has come to. The level of entitlement described is slightly sickening. It seems like people who have the money to do this sort of thing have no sense of what is wrong.

Intuition plays a huge part in how we decide what's right and wrong, and we are biased. Does our environment play a huge part in how we decide politics etc?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html

This seems like it would be an excellent tool for people who are working and don't have time do go to classes, but there seems to be a lot of social growth that comes from an actual college experience. It's great though that there is that option.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/confessions-of-an-ivy-league-frat-boy-inside-dartmouths-hazing-abuses-20120328

An article published in the rolling stone explores the Frat scene at Dartmouth with interviews from a former pledge.

I found this article fascinating, and the large photos that moved as you scrolled were cool. It seems amazing that so many people abuse the disability system and last year I experienced this first hand. At the Hardly Strictly Music festival I saw a man in a wheel chair who was sitting in the disabilities section, but as soon as the organizers turned away the man suddenly rose out of his wheelchair and began to walk towards a friend. Either I had witnessed a miracle or this man was taking advantage of a system that is needed by many. The government is in debt and people like this are what cause programs to be shut down.

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After reading the Walmart Bribes article I am convinced that the amount of corruption that isn't reported on is huge. It seems like huge corporations like Wal Mart can almost always get away with changing the rules, and Mexico is a place where these sort of things are commonplace. Newspapers spend so much time reporting on the drug wars in Mexico that corruption, even on a huge scale, can go under the radar. The environment along with people living in these areas are harmed but the money keeps flowing. The layout broke up the copious text with photos and maps of the areas in question, and it seemed like a less overwhelming version of the avalanche article.