GOOD news
- Long read: An important Newsweek feature looks at the sorry state of the schools that serve the children of American soldiers.13 hours ago+
- Israel is stepping back from its threat to bar foreign journalists from entering the country for 10 years if they board an aid flotilla to Gaza.14 hours ago+
- Your range anxiety remedy: AAA roadside assistance trucks are going to get mobile electric vehicle charging units.15 hours ago+
- Wendell Berry, Danny Glover, and Naomi Klein want you to "[come] to Washington in the hottest and stickiest weeks of the summer and [engage] in civil disobedience that will quite possibly get you arrested" to block an oil pipeline.16 hours ago+
- Graffiti has come a long way: "Instead of removing the street art, a local council in London decided to immediately preserve a new piece of public art created by Banksy behind a sheet of plastic."17 hours ago+
- "Government has no free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which they may be exposed." The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down California's law banning the sale of violent video games to minors.18 hours ago+
- Researchers are putting sensors on buses in Zurich so the vehicles can measure the city's air quality as they drive around.19 hours ago+
- The New York Times ran a story about how fetal-pain abortion laws are affecting women in six states across the country.20 hours ago+
- Bristol Palin's memoir is raising questions about whether or not Levi raped her. She says it was not date rape "by any means."21 hours ago+
- A new survey reveals that Capitol Hill is really friggin' white—and pretty male, too.22 hours ago+
- San Francisco is considering banning all pet sales. Unsurprisingly, pet store owners are pissed.23 hours ago+
- Consumer spending was at its weakest pace in 20 months in May, a sign that gas prices are taking a toll on the economy.24 hours ago+
- In case you somehow missed it, New York made same-sex marriage legal on Friday. Here's a celebratory mash-up of YMCA.1 day ago+
- Brilliant! Paris is planning to cut the amount of advertising on city streets by 30 percent.4 days ago+
- A Picasso masterpiece is being displayed at a tiny art school in the occupied Palestinian territory.4 days ago+
- Food Not Bombs members were arrested in Orlando for serving meals without a permit.4 days ago+
- You won't necessarily need a garage: A new partnership will try to give apartment dwellers access to electric car charging stations.4 days ago+
- Nancy Goldstein was not impressed with Obama's speech at the LGBT Leadership Council Gala, saying he "offered up a straight diet of the same ringing but empty 'inspirational' rhetoric."4 days ago+
- Facebook is launching another new lame kind of social ad. "The brand will make a statement or pose a question, and below that will be a comment box where the user can enter a response."4 days ago+
- North Carolina has actually raised the gasoline tax by 2.5 cents per gallon.4 days ago+
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