School Segregation is Back, From Birmingham to San Francisco
Newsweek
Across the U.S., from the South to San Francisco, public schools are again becoming segregated along racial lines. Conscious attempts at integration are rare today because the same court that struck down separate-but-equal promptly struck down the best remedy for it, the article asserts. The Supreme Court has conflated school integration with discrimination, effectively reversing Brown v. Board of Education. Palace Intrigue Behind DeMint's Ouster From Heritage Foundation
Politico
Interviews with people at the center of Jim DeMint's ouster from the Heritage Foundation suggest its stewards — particularly DeMint's predecessor, Ed Feulner, and Feulner's sharp-elbowed protégé, Mike Needham — became convinced ex-Senator was incapable of renewing the foundation's conservative mission. Feulner's decision in 2010 to create an advocacy organization, Heritage Action, run by Needham, sowed the seeds of DeMint's fall. Since 2014, 38 Mysterious, High-Profile Deaths Under Putin
USA Today
Thirty-eight prominent Russians have been victims of unsolved murders or suspicious deaths since the beginning of 2014, according to a list compiled by journalists. A large proportion of the unexplained deaths involve people trying to expose government corruption. NSA Collected Americans' Phone Records Despite Law Change
Reuters
The National Security Agency collected more than 151 million records of Americans' phone calls last year, even after Congress limited its ability to collect bulk phone records, according to an annual report issued by the top U.S. intelligence officer. SEC Probes Solar Companies Over Disclosure of Customer Cancellations
Wall Street Journal
Federal regulators are investigating whether Elon Musk's solar-energy company and another in California are masking how many customers they are losing. Investors use that cancellation metric as one way to gauge the companies' health. Colorado's War on Online-Dog Walking Services
Reason
Big government and 'big kennel' are conspiring against the sharing economy by making it illegal for people to watch pets for money unless they get licensed as a commercial kennel. | 
