Erica Goode

What goes through the mind of a pilot as he turns the nose of an airliner toward the ground and prepares for death, taking 149 other people with him?

With cellphone cameras ubiquitous and many Americans giving in to the urge to document even the most intimate aspects of their lives, revenge porn has opened up new ways to wreak vengeance.

Efforts to contain feral swine have been hampered by the lack of a national policy, the slowness of states and hunters to recognize the problem, and bickering between agencies about who is responsible for dealing with them.

Many states with the weakest gun laws, Alaska among them, have the worst rates of gun violence, ranking high on numerous indicators, like gun homicides and suicides, firearm deaths of children, and killings of law enforcement officers, according to a report by the liberal Center for American Progress.