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Buried beneath a bunch of articles about Elon Musk trying to be cool, there's a good primer at Vox on a consequential court case -- and a centerpiece of President Obama's climate policy -- making its way to the DC Circuit...

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/21/12999366/keith-lamont-scott-north-carolina-police-shooting If we could all just go back to the comfort of our above-average privilege lives largely untouched by police brutality... Maybe we'd all agree that no empathy should be given for those who don't have this...

https://huskerchalktalk.com/2016/09/23/leveraging-personnel-cethan-carter/ More nice reads, and wow, what a website! Great job, to those guys. I also think that stats or not, Cethan is going to get some prime NFL draft consideration. And that he's going to tear it up in the league. Did not know...

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/22/12892682/donald-trump-samuel-goldman Samuel Goldman, assistant professor of political science at George Washington University and frequent author at The American Conservative I don't think that's a terrible thing at all, either. There's a lot...

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/22/12893444/clinton-foundation-effectiveness A history of some of the Foundation's work, and Bill Clinton's uniquely positioned role in it as a former U.S. President -- about which mostly I knew nothing prior to reading. 5000 words, but it's good...

Poor guy seems to have had a really, really rough start to the year so far. I hope that phenomenal in-your-face punt return is the start of a decisive comeback. Go get 'em, DPE! Don't Punt!

NYT: How the sugar industry shifted blame to fat Spoiler alert: When I see this, I just think of how great the invisible guiding hand of the market is in servicing humanity's needs.

http://xkcd.com/1732/ Because this is, unfortunately, a bit of a political topic. Randall Munroe does some phenomenal work. This is an important visualization.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/citation-needed #postfactualworld

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/10/12861064/september-11-terrorism-security-war-on-terror ^ A good, fairly even-handed perspective on Americans' attitudes about security and where we are, fifteen years on from 9/11. It comes with both optimism and a little warning.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/after-run-heavy-win-nebraska-seeks-to-throw-more-often/article_14e1d4b6-7391-5904-af4f-72fa8e3fa528.html No complaints here!

If this is your first introduction to Actual President of The Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, it's going to be an interesting one: (Duterte) can't stop calling people sons of whores He called Pope Francis...you get the idea. I was happy to see President Obama take a diplomatic tone in response...

Josh Earnest wants the NYT to give Obama credit for transparency. He makes a paper-thin case. (a.k.a -- Hot takes you won't get from the mainstream liberal media? ) I get that Obama has earnestly tried to run a more transparent administration than he has to. He's an open, lucid communicator...

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/27/8661045/prosecutors-mass-incarceration What a chart. I can see how the political process makes it easy for "tough on crime" to win. With as much that will always be at DA's discretion, that builds up and results in these sobering statistics. Feel-good campaign...

Politico: The Forgotten Government Plan to Round Up Muslisms So many good passages here. Great reporting from Politico. Just an interesting, worthy read.

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/19/12547038/trump-european-right-immigration-american-politics-nationalism I wanted to post this separately because it touches on a lot of interesting topics: - Europe's far-right minor parties - Europe's proportional representation versus "first past the post"...

Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds

The Atlantic: Is Obamas Drone War Moral? I think they do good justice to an important topic. It's troubling, at least, where this all might be going.

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/18/12520820/public-option-health-care-obamacare Jacob S. Hacker is a Yale political science professor and director of their Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He's been considered the "father of the public option" and penned this lengthy explainer for Vox as...