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Progressive Review, 2015 -  Tucker Lannon reports that Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, "I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream." The waitress replies, "I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?"

Robert Reich - Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%. 

Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and a student is brought out, handcuffed and taken to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation. Over the past eight years, the process has been used at least 750 times on students. Some are as young as 5 years old. Read more.The practice isn’t just happening in Wicomico. Recent data shows New York City schools still call police to take children in emotional distress to the emergency room despite a 2014 settlement in which they agreed to stop the practice. A Kentucky school district used a psychiatric assessment on kids over 1,000 times in a year and thousands of children in Florida have been subjected to the Baker Act, the state’s involuntary commitment statute.

Australian researchers, who published their findings in the journal Sleep, found that sleep regularity was a better predictor of mortality than sleep duration. This means that going to sleep at the same time each night could help you extend your lifespan. (More)