Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don’t Get It

Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don’t Get It Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs. MARK HERTSGAARD shared from Black Deaths Matter Historic black cemeteries have devolved into trash dumps and overgrown forests, while tidy Confederate memorials still draw public funding. SETH FREED WESSLER Bernie Sanders Has a Secret Weapon, and the Media Elites Just Don’t Get It Americans are a people for whom ideology matters a lot less than speaking plainly and sticking by your beliefs. MARK HERTSGAARD It’s Science: Raising Minimum Wage Would Make America a Happier Place The American Psychological Association is marshaling research that shows alleviating poverty improves mental health. BENJAMIN RYAN How Could Tamir Rice’s Death Be ‘Reasonable’? Imaginative legal reasoning deals a real blow. PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS Why Is the CBO Concocting a Phony Debt Crisis? A simple accounting trick is arming austerity hawks with a powerful, phony weapon. ARI RABIN-HAVT We Should Never Pay Down Our $17 Trillion Debt—Just Ask the IMF Our money is better spent elsewhere for a few simple reasons. MIKE KONCZAL

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Downsizing Los Angeles, Once the City of Outsized Dreams

Downsizing Los Angeles, Once the City of Outsized Dreams Joe Mathews: Our most powerful aspirations are no longer about growing the city or its global footprint, but about splitting it into pieces, shrinking it into smaller communities. READ MORE shared from

THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2015 Downsizing Los Angeles, Once the City of Outsized Dreams Joe Mathews: Our most powerful aspirations are no longer about growing the city or its global footprint, but about splitting it into pieces, shrinking it into smaller communities. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Paul Ryan Era in Congress? Brent Budowsky: What I suggest is high-stakes poker for a man who is rightly thrilled by the chairmanship he now holds and is being drafted for a position he does not want. READ MORE Listening to Her: Hillary’s Dilemma Robin Lakoff: Even before we have properly unpacked our campaign listening ears, the interpreters and sages are weighing in on Hillary Clinton’s talk, and very little of their assessment concerns what she is saying, and even less is in any way positive. READ MORE Soledad O'Brien: "I Am Latino in America" Broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien will visit the Occidental campus on Thursday, October 15. READ MORE Want Social Progress? Then Set Shared Social Goals Frank Fear: Impressive outcomes can result when public sights are set collectively. It happens when we organize, coordinate, and focus on making social progress, together. READ HERE

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Some people need medication for their mental health. These selfies show that's perfectly OK.

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New York City firefighters just sent a powerful message to young LGBT people.

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GAME OF THE CENTURY CHESS- DONALD BYRNE VS. BOBBY FISCHER

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Magnus Carlsen is a brilliant young champion

Chess.com play. learn. share. Hi, anton, Magnus Carlsen is a brilliant young champion, and sometimes it seems like he will reign atop the chess world forever. But who will eventually dethrone him? GM Serper makes a compelling case for his choice. Click here to read GM Serper's full article. IM Daniel Rensch plays against the world's strongest open-source computer engine -- at material odds. Check out this highlight from last week's #ChessMonday show.  For the latest Chess.com video content and event coverage, please subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Twitch.   Performance Stats  Tactics: It's the fastest way to improve! Start training!  Lessons: Get interactive training from chess masters! Start learning! The Biggest Secret Of The Soviet Chess School by GM Gregory Serper The famed Soviet school of chess has produced hundreds of grandmasters and dozens of world champions. Thousands of chess coaches teach their students using "the Soviet training method." But who can really describe what exactly was/is the So...  |  Read More My World Cup: Nakamura vs Shankland Rapid by GM Sam Shankland GM Sam Shankland continues his battle with now-world-number-two Hikaru Nakamura in this video lesson pulled from the rapid tiebreak match at the recent FIDE World Cup in Baku. Was GM Shankland able to pull off the upset? Or did Nakamura show of...  |  Watch Video Before Millionaire Monday, Sunday Had It All Do you like controversy, late-night action, and a good old-fashioned flip of the coin? You needed to be in Las Vegas Sunday for Millionaire Chess 2, and you needed to call tails. Millionaire day four did much to promote chess but also took it ba...  |  Read More LIVE Blitz Chess Commentary #324: English Symmetrical, hedgehog system by NM ChessNetwork This is a blitz chess game I played as white with time control 3|2. The opening was the English Symmetrical, hedgehog system. Control the center, and there's a strong chance you control the game. The critical pawn breaks for black in the hedgehog ...  |  Read More  Daily Puzzles No Escape Bogoljubov - Tarrasch, Goteborg 1920 Sometimes It Works In From Behind Tolush - Alatortsev, Moscow 1948  Upcoming Tournaments 29th Chess.com Thematic Tournament - Alekhine (1401-1600) 29th Chess.com Thematic Tournament - Alekhine (1201-1400) 29th Chess.com Thematic Tournament - Alekhine (1601-1800) 29th Chess.com Thematic Tournament - Alekhine (1001-1200) 29th Chess.com Thematic Tournament - Alekhine (1801-2000) See all upcoming tournaments » Login to Chess.com

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VIDEO: Tesla's New Autopilot Is Awesome — And Kind Of Terrifying

LOOK ELON, NO HANDS! VIDEO: Tesla's New Autopilot Is Awesome — And Kind Of Terrifying digg.com Google and others are still working on perfecting the autonomous vehicle, but on Wedneday Tesla unveiled a new autopilot feature for its Model S that basically does everything for you. That doesn't mean it's not a bit nerve-wracking. shared fromThe Daily Digg Thursday, October 15, 2015 LEAVE YOUR QUESTIONS NOW How Do Things Vanish From The Internet? This Journalist Found Out digg.com The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance wrote about how a Pulitzer Prize finalist newspaper story vanished from the web, and will be here to answer your questions at 12pm EST. Leave her a question now! CROWDSOURCING A CURE The Internet Strangers Who Solve Your Unsolvable Medical Problems digg.com This is a story about somebody whose body started breaking down in increasingly weird ways. And there’s nothing she can do to understand it, and nothing she can do to convince people it’s real. ENCYCLOPEDIA CROWN The Most Prolific Editor On Wikipedia priceonomics.com Of Wikipedia’s 26 million registered users, roughly 125,000 (less that 0.5%) are “active” editors. Of these 125,000, only some 12,000 have made more than 50 edits over the past six month. And of these selfless few, one man is king of the domain. THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST A Hostage Crisis And A Ghost Boat: The Best Articles Of The Week digg.com Inside a harrowing FBI hostage crisis; the last doctor in southern Sudan; and the fate of 243 migrants who disappeared en route from Libya to Italy. PASSING THE BUCK Inside Corporate America’s Push To Ditch Workers’ Comp propublica.org One Texas lawyer is helping companies opt out of workers’ compensation and write their own rules. What does it mean for injured workers? LOOK ELON, NO HANDS! VIDEO: Tesla's New Autopilot Is Awesome — And Kind Of Terrifying digg.com Google and others are still working on perfecting the autonomous vehicle, but on Wedneday Tesla unveiled a new autopilot feature for its Model S that basically does everything for you. That doesn't mean it's not a bit nerve-wracking. Get more stories on Digg.com BABY I CAN SEE YOUR HALO ​The sun sets as Egyptians walk on the beach of Alexandria, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil

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