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Rancher Bundy
Would Cliven Bundy's actions hold up in any other situation?
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The News
Could guns help liberal activists stand against the government, too?
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The Mysterious Disappearance
The news media seems obsessed, but with all the wrong things.
Why We Need Media Critics Who Are Fiercely Independent
To reach the broad public, critics of the media establishment need amplification from... the media establishment. And that rarely happens unless the critique is shallow.
Why Aren’t We Putting US Agencies on Trial for Financing El Chapo’s Drug War?
From Capone to Mexico's captured cocaine king, the villains we love to hate obscure the truth about America's secret support.
FiveThirtyEight Gets it Wrong on Venezuela
Nate Silver, who became famous for his use of polling data to accurately project US elections, launched a new blog u2013 FiveThirtyEight.com last month. It's been off to …
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The Life and Death of the “Great” American Mall
The mall will be both maligned and recalled fondly by those of us who grew up with it, but it will not be replaced by another equally potent symbol …
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On the Movie “Divergent”: Virtue Facing Dystopia
We are living in times of radical political impotence.
Current Philippine Government and Military Using Ongoing Extra-Judicial Killings Targeting Activists, Poor, Left and Media
On March 25, William Bugatti, a 43 year old human rights worker for Karapatan, one of the Philippines' main human rights organizations, was shot to death. He was the …
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The Thin Veil of Rationality
We try to present a facade of rationality to the world...