Thursday's Daily Brief: Guantanamo Hunger Strike Lays Bare Detainees' Growing Desperation, Obama Decision Sets Off Firestorm From Allies

Thursday, May 2, 2013

	POLITICS Obama Decision Sets Off Firestorm From Allies
	MEDIA Jason Collins Accused Of Not Disclosing Thing He Actually Totally Disclosed
	BUSINESS J.C. Penney's Pricing Disaster Wore Down Workers
	POLITICS GOP Rep: Budget Cuts Priorities Were Out Of Order
	COMEDY Big 'Daily Show' Changes

BLOG POSTS

	Emily Peck: Here's What Really Happens In The Women's Bathroom Allegedly we're all desperately afraid to poop in the ladies' room.
	Ben Affleck: $1.50 a Day As a nation we both claim a noble position in the world and assert a reputation for fostering freedom, human rights and fairness here and abroad. If indeed we are to live up to that, we cannot abide having some among us who starve.
	Robert Jay Lifton: 10 Reflections on Drones (Part I) Drones have entered our consciousness. The following reflections do not address legal, political, or military issues, though these have great importance. Rather I seek to begin a conversation about our relationship as human beings to these robotic objects as weapons.
	Ellen Cantarow: The Downwinders As their cancers developed, the victims of atomic testing and nuclear weapons development got a name: downwinders. Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
	Kelly M. Flanagan: A Daddy's Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband) I don't care if he doesn't follow his wallet -- as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you. I don't care if he is strong -- as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart.