friday reads

Dash-cam videos that appear to show South Carolina highway troopers twice using their cars as weapons to run down black suspects have sparked a federal investigation and public outrage this week.


Nick Turse: The Golden Age of the Military-Entertainment Complex


Carl T. Bogus: Praying for a Second Shot on the Second Amendment


Paul Krugman Partying Like It's 1929


Three State Department contractors improperly accessed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's passport records beginning in January, department officials said Thursday night, and an investigation into their motives and backgrounds is under way.


PZ Meyers is expelled from a screening of...Expelled.