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[edit] September 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Fifty years of Star Trek. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Framed: The LA Times' six part series about how a PTA mom's life was when she was framed with planted drugs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Secrets of a global super court. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | The original underclass. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The rise and fall of Black Wall Street. |
[edit] August 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | -30 | The sexual is political. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Julian Assange is exposing innocent people to persecution with his reckless leaks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Veterans for Kaepernick. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The Civil War’s forgotten anti-imperialism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -2 | The sad decline of Vox. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Chelsea Manning is not a symbol, she is a person who is rotting in the carceral state we are all responsible for creating. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | How advertisers seduce our subconscious. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Burkini-Bikini False Equivalence and Your Disproportionate Outrage by an ex-Muslim feminist blogger. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Selling T-shirts, lies, anger to miners left without jobs or hope. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The scandal of EpiPens runs deeper than most of us realize. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The real Wild West was the scene of state-organized displacement and mass class struggle, not rugged individualism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Elon Musk, Fatalist |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | The Silicon Valley delusion. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Why was the crack epidemic treated differently? (The American Conservative) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The Daily Beast interviews a low-ranking ISIS member, highlighting the copious amounts of Kool-aid currently consumed in Raqqa. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The Star Spangled Banner is a song that celebrates slavery. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Why Trump is seen as a working class hero in towns like Youngstown, Ohio. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Foreign Policy mag's three-part series on the origins of the Islamic State. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Donald Trump broke the conservative media. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -34 | Hillary Clinton could easily push America into open conflict with Russia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | The Nusra Front’s trap for the Syrian Opposition. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | The slave-trade roots of US private prisons. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Why Syria's war only seems to get worse. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Drug companies spend millions to keep charging high prices |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Americans should be more concerned about the dangers pesticides pose than the unfounded dangers of GMOs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Phil Sandifer: The Blind All-Seeing Eye of Gamergate. Almost certainly the very last long form thinkpiece that will ever be written about Gamergate, and it's a blinder. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | How Peter Thiel killed Gawker. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -9 | The culture of the smug, white liberal. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | How US CEOs are withholding revenue. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | French police are providing propaganda for ISIS by ticketing Muslim women on beaches and French feminists are failing Muslim women by supporting racist French laws. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Why did the Saudis and other Gulf tyrannies donate to the Clinton Foundation? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -9 | Gawker was murdered by gaslight. Here are some questions for those cheering its death. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Colonial nostalgia is back in fashion, blinding us to the horrors of empire. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The climate crisis is already here but no one’s telling us |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Startup wants to "disrupt" the U.S legal system. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | How a violent Jewish extremist group went from the fringes to the mainstream French Right-Wing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | "A brief history of Scientology." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The death of neoliberalism and the crisis in western politics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | John Oliver explains how poorly regulated charter schools are. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | A Popular Mechanics writer goes on the Conspira-sea cruise |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | The forgotten government plan to round up Muslims in the US. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The leak prosecution that lost the US the space race. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | It's Time To Abandon The Belief In Witchcraft Because Witches Don't Exist By Ijabla Raymond, a Nigerian skeptic. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | "Muscular Christianity" - The Victorian-era movement that inspired the establishment of the modern Olympics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Why the Mormon church is building a huge compound in Phildelphia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | California is no paradise for migrant farm workers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The trademarking of public language. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio host, admits that right-wing news outlets are responsible for the willful ignorance that has overtaken American conservatives. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | How Super PACs killed the Tea Party. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | How Aung San Suu Kyi and her U.S. allies deny Burmese anti-Muslim atrocities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Repressive policing isn't just about racism, it is also a class issue. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | U.S. peace activists should start listening to progressive Syrian voices. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | A new cryptocurrency scheme: SingularDTV, the Ethereum startup that's building a Digital Rights Management on their own private blockchain (and also in Ethereum, in a way that isn't clear), that will apparently get two million new Ethereum users in the next three years (to buy TV shows, not drugs), to fund and sell their TV show explicitly indented as propaganda for cryptocurrency and the Singularity (and just a soupçon of Austrian economics). And why musicians and artists shouldn't touch it with a bargepole.(self promotion warning) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | On the teaching of US history: In Tennessee, Vanderbilt University is buying back the naming rights to a campus building from a Confederate heritage group that has promoted the whitewashing of Southern history for more than 120 years. Meanwhile in Wisconsin, GOP Senator Ron Johnson is advocating the destruction of the "higher education cartel" by replacing history classes with Ken Burns DVDs. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Milo Yiannopoulos' scholarly charity for white kids appears to have been yet another right-wing affinity fraud. More details. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Meet Angela Corey, the Florida prosecutor who has charged 77 kids as adults this year; 65 of them were black, nearly half were under 16. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | The summer of the shill. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | Like Donald Trump? You’ll Love the Illuminati conspiracy theories. Trump fans are 4.2 times more likely to tweet about the New World Order than Clinton supporters — and four times more likely to follow professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Buzzfeed interviews Juanita Broaddrick about her life after her alleged rape by Bill Clinton. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The Guardian interviews Brunhilde Pomsel, Joseph Goebbels’s secretary. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | John Oliver explains the return of subprime loans through the auto industry. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | America's addiction to mercenaries. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | The tyranny of a traffic ticket. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Louisiana sheriffs hid a gun that could free a man and then blamed Hurricane Katrina. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | How monetary hawks at the Federal Reserve helped to smash the American working class. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Driven to suicide by an "Inhuman and Unnatural’ pressure to sell. The life and death of an Indian pharmaceutical salesman. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | With cupping gaining attention due to its use by Olympic athletes, Edzard Ernst reminds us that it doesn't work (warning: graphic image). In fact, he had to say it twice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The decline of war. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | Don't blame the masses. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | New York Times Magazine publishes entire issue looking at the Arab Spring. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | What a professional physicist learned as a paid consultant to his apparently "autodidactic" counterparts. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | I could only afford to live in a truck. But I still wasn't eligible for food stamps. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Labor must take on Capital. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -19 | The Democrats’ tactic of accusing their critics of having allegiance to the Kremlin has a long, ugly history in U.S. (The Intercept) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The Olympics won’t help Rio. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 24 | U.S. maternal death rate, already the highest in the developed world, is continuing to increase. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 27 | Obama has expanded the ISIL bombing campaign to a 4th country and the media barely noticed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | The prospect of President Trump has understandably put attention on the U.S. President's ability to order the use of nuclear weapons, which is basically absolute and unchecked. [1] [2] |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | In case you didn't know, think tanks have increasingly become fronts for corporate lobbying. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Dinner, Disrupted |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Some problems befalling Indian reservations (although, this being The Federalist, there might some biases and the solutions not that good). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | There are embarrassing photos of me on the internet, thanks to my right-wing stalkers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | How a 125-year-old mass lynching tried to make America great again. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | What Julian Assange’s war on Hillary Clinton says about WikiLeaks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Chelsea Manning, on facing life in solitary after attempting suicide |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The unsexy truth about Millennials: They’re poor. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 31 | Khizr Khan's patriotism was amplified by the media but his criticism of US foreign policy wasn't. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | The Democrats will fail the Khan family like they failed Cindy Sheehan. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Property rights may be the best way to improve the standard of living on Native American reservations. After all it worked so well last time it was tried..... |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | A look at the factors behind the gender wage gap in the U.S. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | This is your life, brought to you by private equity. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Criticizing Hillary Clinton is not going to elect Donald Trump. |
[edit] July 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Snopes can't cope: there are so many conspiracy theories popping up, David Mikkelson says "the bilge keeps coming faster than you can pump." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Why Russia's Communist party is resurging. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Obama is set to send billions in aid to Israel as it prospers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | How Netenyahu is crushing Israel's free press. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 29 | The Munich shooter was a Neo-nazi, no wonder the media has moved on. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -5 | The media narrative that détente with Russia is treacherous is McCarthyite. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -4 | Glenn Greenwald talks Brexit, Trump, and info leaks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Meet Moxie Marlinspike, the anarchist bringing encrytion to us all, |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | The Curious Rise of Scientology in Taiwan. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -26 | The 1 percent's useful idiots. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Taking back control. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -5 | Clinton writes off the Left. (The American Conservative) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | 5 reasons almost everyone was wrong about Trump. (Cracked) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | How the other half protests. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | What happened to the pink tide in South America? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | "Banning the box" may actually hurt POC. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | The world is addicted to debt. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | Neoliberalism is a political project. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People (The American Conservative) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | We Are the Left? Yeah, Right… |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 22 | How Alex Jones uses people's fear of the government to sell dietary supplements. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | An inside look at Reddit's alt-right community. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Air conditioning is a human right. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | I have seen both worlds, and the naturopathic one is terrifying.In particular, comments section. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Police shootings bring into spotlight the 2006 FBI report about white supremacists infiltrating law enforcement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Want police reform? Charge rich people more for speeding tickets |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The LED Quandry: Why there's no such thing as built to last. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Here's why Blue Lives Matter is a racist hate group. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | The pharmaceutical industry has become a major health hazard to the American people. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Renowned hacktivist "Phineas Fisher" gives an interview to Vice about the complicated relationship between law enforcement around the world and hackers... as a puppet. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Ending the violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | The Shadow Over Cleveland: Donald Trump as Supernatural Horror. A semi-tongue-in-cheek but also-completely-serious argument for Trump-as-eldritch-abomination by way of Harry G. Frankfurt's On Bullshit and the horror philosophy of S. T. Joshi and Thomas Ligotti. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Stephen Colbert on the word "trumpiness". Hello, nation! (YouTube link) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Melani's speech reveals how vapid political speeches are. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Rudy Giuliani's history of racist rants. (Cato) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Drug users are being slaughtered right now and no one cares. (Cracked) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | What happened in Turkey? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The world is taking its revenge against elites. When will America's wake up? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Roger Ailes, Bullshit Mountain CEO and Chairman, is set to be ousted as a result of an internal probe into sexual harassment allegations made against him. No news yet whether or not Carrie Fisher will reprise her role. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Why Japan (National Review) and South Korea may be slipping from liberal democracies into fascist dictatorships. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Three bystanders who filmed and shared videos of killings by cops say they've been targeted by police ever since. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Report confirms UK media's bias against Jeremy Corbyn |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Karen Armstrong, Lawrence Krauss, and Greg Epstein discuss whether religion is responsible for violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Anti-Semitic Trump supporters go after David Harris Gershon, here are his thoughts on the matter. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | How Western media would cover Baton Rouge if it happened overseas. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Obama says Black Lives Matter. But he doesn't ensure they do. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -16 | Is My Intolerance of Your Intolerance Intolerant? How Islamists and their allies among the Western left smear their critics as Muslimophobes. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | How technology disrupted the truth. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | "But from both a strategic and moral perspective, the worst thing that could be done in response to the horror of incidents like Nice would be to give ISIS what it says it wants: polarization and communal hatred." "Far-right parties hostile to minorities are growing in popularity in Europe, while in the United States, polls show significant public support for once-unthinkable measures like banning non-citizen Muslims from the country." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | Obama has failed victims of racism and police brutality. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Dear #WeAreTheLeft, you are not the Left. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 19 | The near certainty of anti-police violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Gun Deaths: Putting gun-related fatalities in the news into perspective. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | A neuroscientist explains the unconscious racial biases behind deadly police shootings. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 1 | The Clintonite Democrats are now to the right of Bush on Palestinian rights. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | How AIPAC is using black leaders to erase Palestinian suffering from the DNC platform. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | The religious cult secretly running Japan. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Barret Brown writes about his life in federal prison. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Legalizing certain illegal jobs: a way to end police harassment. From Reason. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | A lovely analysis of the politicians behind the Brexit - "one Etonian backstabbing another" |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Economist William K. Black explains how white collar crime kills and maims more people than blue collar crime. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Despite rampant comparisons, 2016 is nowhere near as bad as 1968. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Death in Black and White. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | It’s more than just the killings and the racism, it’s the extortion too. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Abu Zabaydah describes his years of torture by the CIA. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | America: a very class-divided society - the example of "white trash". |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The Chilcolt Report reveals two things: Iraqi lives don't matter and that Western aggression causes terrorism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Why modern America scares me: By an internment camp survivor. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The Dallas PD's decision to use a remote control device to deliver lethal force raises serious legal quetions on a new era of policing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -15 | After Dallas shooting, it's not Us vs. the Cops |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Why Marwan Barghouti may be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Here are 8 white people who pointed guns at police officers who didn't get killed. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Inside the deadly world of private prisoner transport. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -24 | Jimmy Dore catches an awkward tweet by Elizabeth Warren. Oops! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Sarah Lyall of the New York Times on the Brexit aftermath: British Politics Gives a Sense of Government by Old School Chums |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | You know those cheap roadside narcotics tests -- the ones where a cop puts a mysterious white substance in a plastic blister pack and it changes color if it's cocaine or opioid? It turns out that they may be no more accurate than if the cop and the accused had instead played rock-paper-scissors to determine the outcome. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Clinton’s Emails, GamerGate, and How the Word “Corruption” Became Meaningless |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Everything the British media have misreported about the EU since 1992 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Economic Theorists: The high priests of Capitalism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Liberals need to stop writing off non–college educated workers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | How the U.S. military promotes its weapons arsenal to the public. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Beware the ‘empathy-washing’ of self-proclaimed caring capitalists. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The coup against Corbyn was planned to stop him calling for Blair’s head after Chilcot. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | Inside the Kuweires air base in Syria after its 2-year siege. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The terrorists the Saudis cultivate in peaceful countries. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Policing the police. (Documentary by PBS) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Confessions of a former internet troll: "Trolling as an impulse has always been largely the domain of white men. They — we — are all anxious." |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Poe's Law and the Brock Turner case. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The right-wing populism that drove Brexit can only be fought with a genuinely radical alternative. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Ending the racist prison system begins with telling the truth about its injustices. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | When prosecutors withhold information, innocent people go to prison — or worse. (Video by Reason) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Corporate fraud demands criminal time. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Arresting America: Are your police really protecting you? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | An alternative to the madness of proving police injustice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Netanyahu’s bloody incitement. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 26 | Chinese mining companies have effectively taken over Bitcoin, leading to the American libertarians backing it for ideological reasons begging them ineffectually for their desired changes. Unscrupulous actors motivated by short-term profit dominating a market in the absence of regulation? Say it ain't so! |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | When your joke online petition goes nuts: I have accidentally founded an independence movement. |
[edit] June 2016
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Making abortion rights real. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The working-class wounds hidden behind Trump voters’ racism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | An interesting comparison between the responses of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to the recent attack in Istanbul, Turkey. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Republicans find out once again that trying to appease the far right is a fool's errand: wingnuts now are floating the idea that Congressional Republicans are part of the Benghazi "conspiracy" because they refuse to say that Obama and Hillary were behind the attacks. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | The violence of eviction. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 32 | The tyranny of forced fun at work. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | How should property rights in space be governed? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The toxic myth that working moms fail their kids is based on old pseudoscience. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | A world without work isn't a bad thing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | Brexit's success shows the failures of the West's established institutions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | How American Politics Went Insane |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Donald Trump, Poland, and America 'B'. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Why does homelessness look the same in San Franciso? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | America's shameful history of mistreatment of migrant workers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Confessions of a payday lender. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | The "knowledge economy" is a myth. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Social justice and democracy must be at the heart of Brexit negotiations. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Everyone should love explainers: Why Brexit Should Scare The Shit Out Of You, Explained |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Brexit: the reaction from that immigrant Englishwoman in Portugal from the other day. (This time, just pull down to the end of the Portuguese text to read the English one, although you'll still have to click the blue rectangule in order to continue to read the text.) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Andrew Cuomo’s BDS blacklist is a clear violation of the First Amendment. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 9 | Fully Loaded: Inside the shadowy world of America's 10 biggest gun manufacturers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | The Democrats gun reforms are weak and disingenuous. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | My four months as a private prison guard |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 20 | Twitter Trolls Are Reporting Pro-LGBT Muslim Women to Their Governments, Where Punishment Can Mean Death |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | "Today, I can no longer disregard the inconvenient fact that I was a quack": Former Naturopathic doctor Britt Marie Hermes speaks of the start to her journey into the world of real medicine. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Donald Trump’s problems are making it too easy for Democrats to ignore their own. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | The best courtroom transcript ever recorded. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | What it's like to have your period in a women's prison. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | How union contracts shield police departments from DOJ reforms. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | I grew up in a racist militia. (Cracked) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | Someone from the Daily Caller tries to pick a fight with Snopes. It goes about as well as you'd expect. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -7 | The Democrats' war against due process and terrorist fearmongering have long predated Orlando. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | How years of macho food marketing is killing men. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | The return of lesser evilism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Why did white workers leave the Democratic Party? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | Death has become a part of Britain’s benefits system. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -9 | These are the nine lost souls the FBI charged as terrorists while letting the Orlando shooter go. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Cracked: I (Charlie Veitch) Was A Professional 9/11 Truther (And I Gave It Up) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | There can be no racial justice until we end money bails. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Scientific publishers are killing research papers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -3 | A Twitter thread on why the "Berniebro" narrative is harmful to PoC and women. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Youth unemployment is caused by late retirement, driven by pension precarity, not by automation. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | An immigrant Englishwoman in Portugal talks about Brexit (to read the English version, just click on the blue rectangule that says "continuar a ler", then scroll down 'till the end of the Portuguese text, which is just a little bit more). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | Six answers to the question behind Donald Trump’s immigration ban. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Why wasteful military spending never stops. (The American Conservative) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The US's mental health crisis ensnares inmates, judges, jailers and hospitals. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Why doesn’t education in juvenile detention facilities get any attention or support? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | Remembering the 1953 East German worker's strike. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | The FBI was right not to arrest Omar Mateen before the shooting. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The shadowy war on the press: How the rich silence journalists. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | How Israel is inciting Palestinian violence. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -4 | Recalling the judge that sentenced Brock Turner may hurt racial minorities. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | My mom was killed in the Charleston shooting. Executing Dylann Roof won’t bring her back. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | How I bought an AR-15 in a Five Guys parking lot. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | How juice companies game science to perpetuate the myth that cranberry prevents UTIs |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Britain is in the midst of a working-class revolt. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | I escaped Romania's dictatorship, went to Oxford and started a business – all thanks to European openness. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Why is Jo Cox's killer not being called a terrorist? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | 7 bullshit cures for Zika that are spreading online |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 33 | "This is just soul-crushingly awful": A live-tweet of the June 14 Trump Rally in Greensboro, NC by a Georgia Southern U. professor. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Public defenders can be biased and it hurts PoC. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 2 | The Supreme Court is afraid of racial justice. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -7 | What activist Jasmine Richards's "lynching" conviction means for the Black Lives Matter movement |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -20 | I don't have to vote and I can still complain. (The Federalist) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Poor Native Americans have a hard time recieving a lawyer. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 23 | How Menards bombards its employees with right-wing propaganda |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Since When Is An Act of Terrorism an Act of God?: A discussion of religiously-motivated/ideologue-driven hate from a devout LGBT Catholic. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | After Orlando, time to recognize that anti-gay bigotry is not religious freedom |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 28 | 6 ways Ronald Reagan ruined the country. (Cracked) |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | United States of Paranoia: A look at the targeted individuals community. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 30 | Only the rich are gaining from the recovery after the Great Recession. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | PTSD may be more physical than psychological. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | Senator Ron Wyden and Judge Andrew Napolitano (video) have both come out against the FBI's unconstitutional attempt to increase their warrantless surveillance access over internet browsing history. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 5 | The Humanist Report on why Bernie Sanders should not drop out before the Democratic Convention in July. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 0 | The UK might leave the European Union. Here’s why. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | The State of Surveillance. - Vice News |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Your definitive guide to the Silicon Valley's bizarre politics. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 15 | All human knowledge is there so why can’t everybody access it? |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 8 | Democrats work with Big Tobacco and Big Pharma to choke the vaping industry. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Drones emerge from shadows to become key cog in U.S. war machine. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 16 | Three years on, it appears Snowden's leaks have damaged the NSA so badly that it's healthier than ever. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Tased in the chest for 23 seconds, dead for 8 minutes, and now facing a lifetime of recovery. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 18 | The Day the Micropig Internet Mob Came After Me: a reminder of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory[wp] and how a small vocal group on the Internet can turn into a storm of harassment and anger over something as innocuous as an album of cute tiny pig photos. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Kyle Kulinski on Bernie Sanders' response to a journalist asking whether or not it is sexist of him to keep running against Hillary Clinton. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | The Bitcoin price is an illusion built by faked volume: A sale of 265 coins crashed the price. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | Everyone from the The Week and Salon, to the National Review and Reason agree that Andrew Cuomo's order against businesses and organizations associated with BDS is a threat to freedom of expression. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Challenging police violence shouldn’t require black Americans to sacrifice their privacy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 7 | This is where Libertarians abandon fusionism with social conservatives. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 11 | The myth of of the 70's ice age prediction. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 3 | These photos show some of the many places people have died crossing the US's southern border. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 25 | When DNA implicates the innocent. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | -2 | Tattoo recognition research threatens free speech and privacy. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | To stop bad prosecutors the Fed must gain oversight over them. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | Andrew Cuomo and other Democrats launch severe attacks on free speech in order to protect Israel. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 6 | Nixonian palace guard now protects Hillary - Jonathan Turley |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | How MSG got a bad rap: Flawed science and xenophobia. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 14 | John Oliver explains debt buyers. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 39 | Now that Muhammad Ali is dead and no longer able to respond, conservatives are already rushing to whitewash and claim him for themselves, just like they did with "MLK the Republican" (Spoilers: he wasn't one either). |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | Cruel and Unusual: Radiolab explores the legal history of the death penalty. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 13 | Three IMF economists have released a report doubting the success of neoliberalism. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 17 | As restrictions on free speech grow we must speak out to save it. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 12 | Doubt grows as Michel Temer's presidency continues to crumble under corruption. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 4 | Having Their Cake and Eating Ours Too |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 21 | Your money or your |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 10 | It should be OK to teach "wrong" ideas in science. Case study: the Bohr model. |


