US police pulled fake ‘Antifa’ list from neo-Nazi site and used it to target random people who’d signed an anti-Donald Trump petition
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Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of Capitalism: A conversation with the Democratic senator about why she’s doubling down on market competition at a moment when her party is flirting with socialism
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The Internet of Garbage
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The myth of John McCain
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How a surrogate twin pregnancy turned into a custody battle over unrelated babies
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Open Data Endgame: Countering the Digital Consensus
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David Foster Wallace on John McCain: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’ (2000)
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Have you heard of the Hungry Ghost Festival?
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Why equality is unhelpful as a political goal
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It’s OK to call racists ‘racist’
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The Alt-Right Playbook
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Choose a side: the battle to keep French isle McDonald's-free. Mayor on Île d’Oléron is leading the fight, saying the island is ‘not about mass consumption’
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What does it take to impeach a president?
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As GOP scandals multiply, Democrats frame a careful message on corruption
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How a law meant to curb infanticide was used to abandon teens
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USA and Australia are dysfunctional: Hyper-partisanship is killing two great democracies
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Recommendations for a great podcast? What are you listening to?
I am a big CGP Grey fan and have recently been diving into 'Hello Internet' and 'Cortex' and really I love both of them. I have never been much of a podcast listener until recently, but I do enjoy...
I am a big CGP Grey fan and have recently been diving into 'Hello Internet' and 'Cortex' and really I love both of them.
I have never been much of a podcast listener until recently, but I do enjoy some of the stuff NPR puts out (like Radiolab).
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Gospels of giving for the new gilded age: Are today’s donor classes solving problems—or creating new ones?
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Fascist activists have spent the last year trying to win over police
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Empty hotels, idle boats: What happens when a Pacific island upsets China by being too friendly with Taiwan
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How Cambodia’s prime minister rigged an election
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404 Riddles: An Internet Riddle
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Introducing Ursal — Union of Socialist Republics of Latin America, Brazil's latest meme craze
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Notpron: the hardest riddle available on the internet
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MIT launches massive election data trove, ranks US election efficiency
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What football will look like in the future
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Inside the Reddit Forum Where Panicked People Ask Strangers for Legal Help
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Elves and Aliens
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America might be ready for democratic socialism. It’s not ready for the bill.
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China Is cheating at a rigged game
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The Age of Precarious Infrastructure
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Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?
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What next for Myanmar’s Rohingya?
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Why there’s no such thing as a civilisation
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Things Fall Apart
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Exclusive: Hacked emails take us inside the billionaires’ club around Vladimir Putin
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How UNH Turned A Quiet Benefactor Into A Football-Marketing Prop
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It started as a fairly routine tweet from an inoffensive source - Canada's foreign affairs ministry. But in just a few days it escalated into a world-class diplomatic clash.
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Democrats should get real with White working-class voters
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The mainstream media always says "the n-word", but what will happen when we have tape of Trump saying it?
Will they censor it? I sort of imagine when the "shit hole" countries thing and the "Grab them by the pussy" thing happened it will be similar. I'm just watching the news and they have not once...
Will they censor it? I sort of imagine when the "shit hole" countries thing and the "Grab them by the pussy" thing happened it will be similar. I'm just watching the news and they have not once said the "n-word" YET
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“Last year they came with torches—this year, with badges” - Report from anti-fascist marches in Charlottesville
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Social Media Bans Actually Work
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What is the Semantic Apocalypse?
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Tillerson's War: The Invasion of Qatar
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The great game at the top of the world: Geopolitics in the Himalayas
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Democrats complain about Green Party "spoilers," but few back a solution: ranked choice voting
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DNA ancestry tests may look cheap. But your data is the price
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It’s not about money: we asked catfish why they trick people online
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After mainstream exposure, QAnon is starting to fracture
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Russia is quietly seizing territory in Georgia as it warns of a ‘horrible conflict’ if the Eurasian country joins NATO
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