Amhara coup attempt: Is the honeymoon over for Ethiopia’s PM Abiy? politics Article 3280 words 3 votes
How Oxford university shaped Brexit — and Britain’s next prime minister politics Article 3979 words 13 votes
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The Best They’ve Got: Examining the National Review’s “Against Socialism” issue politics Article 6724 words 25 votes
Reckless in Riyadh: Some American policymakers and scholars are questioning whether the alliance with Saudi Arabia still makes sense for the US politics Article 5116 words 4 votes
The undercover fascist - A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician. politics Article 10 458 words 17 votes
Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society's behind-the-scenes campaign to make US courts more conservative politics Article 3931 words 7 votes
At least one in three Alaska villages has no local law enforcement. Sexual abuse runs rampant, public safety resources are scarce, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to cut the budget. politics Article 5645 words 18 votes
Going Critical - an interactive essay demonstrating how things move and spread through networks Link 4 votes
Honeymoon in Palestine: Reflections on Palestine, its people, and military occupation… politics Article 3969 words 5 votes
Saudi fugitives accused of serious crimes get help to flee while US officials look the other way politics Article 4758 words 4 votes
Guantánamo’s darkest secret - The US military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise. Article 19 771 words 14 votes
How Rupert Murdoch's empire of influence remade the world - a three part report covering the UK, Australia and the USA Article 8973 words 19 votes
How sovereign citizens helped swindle $1 billion from the government they disavow politics Article 4898 words 11 votes
"What the hell is going on?" A thoughtful and thorough overview of the rising entropy in society by David Perell Article 12 798 words, published Mar 10 2019 20 votes
How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected. In 2013, Marian Kotleba won a shock victory in regional elections. Four years later, he was voted out in a landslide. But now he’s running for president. politics Article 6 votes
Private Mossad for hire - Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race politics Article 9001 words 7 votes
The plot against George Soros - How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory politics Article 4510 words 12 votes
Is trade in turmoil a change for justice? The global free trade system is being battered like never before. Can any good come of it? Link 7 votes
The noisy dispute over the meaning of populism is more than just an academic squabble – it’s a crucial argument about what we expect from democracy. politics Article 12 votes
He’s built an empire, with detained migrant children as the bricks politics Article 3664 words 9 votes
An indepth look at USA's "Kill List" and ongoing legal battles that come from it Article 7741 words, published Jul 19 2018 19 votes
US law enforcement failed to see the threat of white nationalism. Now they don’t know how to stop it. Article 11 602 words 25 votes
Payback: Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his crew tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Decades later, the survivors fought for reparations. Article 7006 words 9 votes
The man who broke politics: Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now he's reveling in his achievements. politics Article published Oct 12 2018 16 votes