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December 2016[edit]

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15 Let's pop the bad news bubble: 99 Reasons Why 2016 Has Been a Great Year For Humanity
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-6Leonid Bershidsky: Why I still don't buy the Russian hacking story. Matt Taibbi: Something about this Russia story stinks.
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102016 has given us a preview of the future of global warming; it isn't a good one.
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5Massachusetts's new law legalizing marijuana is just a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
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8When SWAT raids become routine.
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3Islamophobia and the Security State after Trump.
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2There are no workplace accidents: Lessons from Deepwater Horizon.
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4Just as the catastrophic Anglo-American invasion of Iraq brought an end to epic Western military adventures in the Middle East, so the tragedy of Syria ensures that there will be no more Arab revolutions.
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7School choice gutted Detroit’s public schools. The rest of the US is next.
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11Auschwitz Memorial twitter account rebukes conservative pundit, Kurt Schlicter, for comparing Jewish supporters of Obama's abstention vis-a-vis UNSC resolution 2334 to 'helpers' at Auschwitz during the Holocaust
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6Why weren't the Trump/The Apprentice tapes leaked? The answer involves trade unions...
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15 An historically unpopular President Elect. An unpopular Republican agenda. Democrats can take advantage of both. But they probably won't.
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10Alt-right's Richard Spencer: a product of Dallas racist elites.
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9The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources memory-holed "climate change" on their website.
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18 Ready for some good news out of this hell year? White supremacist intellectuals are already predicting the movement's backslide into petty squabbling and political irrelevance.
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14Why dropping small luxuries is massively over-rated financial advice.
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-38Why do some migrants hate their new host countries? Look to anarchist Emma Goldman. On the parallels between today's transnational jihadi terrorists and the anarchists of the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
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19George Will invokes Orwell in a good way to highlight the troubles of civil forfeiture and to criticize Jeff Sessions' support of it.
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3David Futrelle announces an ongoing series of posts about the little things that you, as an ordinary citizen, can do to resist Trump. The first thing you can do? Email the Madison Square Garden Company to express solidarity with the Rockettes who don't want to be forced to perform at Trump's inauguration.
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17North Carolina no longer qualifies as a democracy
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21Conservatives on religious freedom: for cake bakers who don't bake for gays? Yeah, of course! For nuns who don't like birth control? Sure! For Muslims whose mosque has been stalled by local government (it's so bad the Federal DoJ is now in on the case)? ...
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11What happens to Media Matters in a post-Hillary World?
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9The long and brutal history of fake news.
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11Democrats shouldn’t assume their “Trump loves Putin” argument is a political winner.
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6How Hannah Arendt’s classic work on totalitarianism illuminates today’s America
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5The contradictions of liberal Zionism in the age of Trump.
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6How many children were shot dead in the US today? An interview with Gary Younge.
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7 U.S. crops are just as vulnerable to a another Dust Bowl tragedy as they are in the 1930s.
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11The long time, historical origins of Pizzagate in the American psyche, courtesy of Reason.
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-11"The Best Time I Pretended I Hadn’t Heard of Slavoj Žižek: One weird trick to frustrate the hell out of a Marxist bro."
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11 The Rise of the Alt-Center: "What the Russian obsession represents is a massive ethical failure on the part of American liberals. (...) They're far too busy weaving themselves into intricate geopolitical power plays that don't really exist, searching for a narrative that exonerates them from having let this happen, to do anything like real political work."
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13After Milo Yiannopolous harassed her during an on-campus speaking invitation, a (now former) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student wrote a lengthy open letter to the Chancellor in which she let him have it.
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9 Despite an increase in prescriptions for Mental Health related drugs, US Mental Health declines by some measures
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9Inspired by Standing Rock, West Texans take action to fight Trans-Pecos Pipeline.
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5The evolution of how suicide bombings incorrectly became synonymous with Islam.
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15New HBomberGuy video: The Golden One: A Measured Response
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4There's more propaganda than news coming out of Aleppo this week. (Autoplay video) So keep in mind, there is more than one truth to tell in the terrible story of Aleppo. (Autoplay video)
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8It was bizarre to watch Samantha Power at the UN conveniently forget to mention all the massacres done in America's name. (Autoplay video)
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12Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surgical strike on black money through demonetisation tears asunder the lives of vast sections of the poor, promoting a gigantic transfer of income and wealth from the poor to the rich on a scale unprecedented since Independence.
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9Obama failed to mitigate America's foreclosure crisis
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8Fake news, traitors, and treason: How liberals and the media are galvanizing the alt-right.
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5What gave us Donald Trump is what gave us Dylann Roof.
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3Meet the children of the US’s opioid crisis. (Paywall)
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5Huffington Post wanted to find troubled jails in the US, so they counted the bodies.
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3The deadliest killer in Colorado's prisons is a curable virus.
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5On Gab, the new social media service for far-right, Trump-worshipping nutjobs, the mood is unsurprisingly euphoric.
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10How can you stop Holocaust denial sites like Stormfront topping Google search results about whether the Holocaust happened? Only by paying Google to advertise in these searches.
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2On failed Weimar-Trump analogies and deeply problematic "militant democracy" ideologies.
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-8On the whole "Russians with the help of WikiLeaks won Trump the election" conspiracy theory, especially its shady origins. (P.S.: Democrats are now the McCarthyists, it seems.)
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6Historians and economists debate the cause of rising cotton production in the South in the antebellum decades. Was it increased whippings or better seeds?
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2America's hacking panic.
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8Resurrecting the alliance of black revolutionaries and Southern whites, decades after a government crackdown.
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3Welcome to Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, the Black Hole of America's immigration system.
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8Stress may explain why lifespans have been lengthening for high-income Americans but have remained the same or even shortened for low-income and middle-income people.
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17Everybody wants to stop fake news, but no one seems to know what it is.
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9Donald Trump's real threat to the press isn't opening up libel laws, it's using the Espionage Act.
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17Aleppo’s horrors suggest the west is now impotent in upholding humanitarian values
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-9Memes didn't affect the US election.
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19She became the nation’s first Somali-American lawmaker. A month later, she was harassed in a D.C. cab for being Muslim.
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5Anonymous leaks to the Washington Post about the CIA’s beliefs about Russia are no substitute for evidence.
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12A Clinton fan manufactured fake news that MSNBC personalities spread to discredit the WikiLeaks docs.
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-1The anonymous blacklist promoted by the Washington Post has apparent ties to Ukrainian fascism and CIA spying.
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9The modern history of an unstoppable bad idea, global counterinsurgency.
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2James Mattis is a war criminal.
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7Trump is inheriting the power to assassinate anyone, including US citizens, with no oversight.
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8Trump makes America Goldman’s again!
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4What happens to a town when Amazon moves in?
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12The smear campaign against Keith Ellison is repugnant but reveals much about Washington.
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7The traditional political spectrum of left and right is no longer valid; the fundamental principle of political difference today should be how to handle globalization.
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-24Is “identity liberalism,” widespread on college campuses, to blame for Donald Trump’s rise? Scholars are divided.
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14Academics aren't lobbyists – so our research changes nothing
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17Just look at Austria, and at Clinton’s success in the popular vote. Politicians of the centre and left must change the narrative to sell their progressive values
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27The Soviet Union collapsed overnight. Don’t assume western democracy will last forever.
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16Carrier just showed corporations how to beat Donald Trump.
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4Why we need to talk more openly about pregnancy loss in academe.
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6Al Giordano’s enemies list.
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12Liberland: The libertarian utopia that’s just a bunch of White guys on a tiny island.
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16What #Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'
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20Germany’s burqa ban has a problem: Where are the burqas?
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5The Right Way to Resist Trump
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24When will Trump voters realize they’ve been had?
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13Obama's inaction on the Dakota Access pipeline shows that Native Americans are still a second-class.
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17Signs of a creepy government conspiracy at Standing Rock.
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9The New Red Scare: Reviving the art of threat inflation.
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7Ferrell Scott got life without parole for pot. And he was just denied clemency by Barack Obama.
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12The US Senate responds to Trump-inspired anti-Semitism by targeting students who criticize Israel.