ARCHIVE:
Explainer
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Can Your Boss Read Your Email?
In most cases, employees have little legal right to privacy.
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Why Did Hugo Chávez Hate the United States So Much?
He once wielded a ceremonial gavel at the New York Stock Exchange.
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Can You Get In Trouble for Performing CPR?
Why do so many bystanders refuse to help someone having a heart attack?
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Tagalong Haul
Why are the Girl Scouts so controlling about who can sell their cookies?
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Amicus Curious
Will a Republican friend-of-the-court brief tip the Supreme Court in favor of gay marriage?
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Why Don’t Americans (Knowingly) Eat Horse Meat?
Horse meat has been found in Ikea’s Swedish meatballs.
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Dead in the Water
Which diseases can you catch from drinking water that’s had a corpse floating in it?
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Is It True What They Say About Men With Big Feet?
The difficulties of taking the true measure of a man.
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Not Guilty By Reason of Grogginess
We are confused when we wake up. Could Oscar Pistorius use that as a defense?
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How Exactly Do You Arm Rebels?
If we want to get weapons to the insurgents in Syria, we’d better be careful—and quiet.
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Baseball Bats and Hammers Do Not Kill More People Than Guns
Why do people keep saying they do?
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The Boom Heard 'Round the World
Could North Korea have done more to hide its nuclear test?
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Ex-Benedict
Will he still be infallible? Will he get a pension? All your papal questions, answered.
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