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September 2016[edit]

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-8Human Rights Watch may be too closely aligned with the US's foreign policy.
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16George W. Bush is a monster and he shouldn't be praised.
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3The secret struggle against South African apartheid.
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14Bill Maher slams Donald Trump once and twice in a single show. Trigger warning: Facts ahead!
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7Media hails Shimon Peres as a man of peace, but doesn’t bother to ask Arabs.
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11Shimon Peres was no peacemaker.
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5After years of stoking Colombia’s civil war, Washington is now trying to hijack the peace deal.
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10The hidden toll on jail inmates who spend months or years in solitary confinement.
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5I posed as a woman willing to exchange sex for rent.
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-1White House is profoundly wrong about the most embarrassing thing the Senate has done.
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6A look at Texas's department of corrections arbitrary and hypocritical censorship policy.
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13How charter schools bust unions.
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24The "welfare queen" is a lie.
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7A third of the homeless people in America are over 50. I’m one of them.
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8The military logic of punishing Chelsea Manning's suicide attempt.
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10New Device, Old Quackery - UV Blood Irradiation
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9Stop Pretending You Don’t Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton
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2Meet Brigitte Gabriel, the most influential leader in America’s anti-Islam lobby.
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17High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history.
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5Pharmaceutical company patents on Kratom Alkaloids reveal why Kratom has been banned by the DEA.
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14"It's not a few bad apples", William Black on Wells Fargo's fraud.
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35Women deserve abortion access no matter their incomes.
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10A walking tour of New York's massive surveillance network.
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14I came to San Francisco to change my life: I found a tribe of depressed workaholics living on top of one another.
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4Why Abbas Won't accept Netanjahu's offer to speak at the Knesset
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10The exasperating, never-ending sprawl of American Empire.
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14The myth of American retreat.
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7The effort to eradicate Chicago's gangs in the 1990s inadvertently lead to its bloody present.
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10Your new iPhone’s features include oppression, inequality, and vast profit.
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9Your Alma mater’s biggest rival? Stingy state government.
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9The only way to tackle mass incarceration is to address the issue of those convicted of violent offenses.
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30There's a better way to talk about men's rights activism — and it's on Reddit
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9If you don't want your bike stolen (in London at least) don't lock it up near pawn shops
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4The rise of "Crimmigration".
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12How the Turner Diaries inspired decades of violence.
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7Aiding and abetting Israeli Apartheid.
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4When labor laws left farm workers behind and vulnerable to abuse.
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7Release more 9/11 records.
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5When humanitarianism became imperialism.
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8Why the US backs Israel.
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5Why so many poor Americans don’t get help paying for housing.
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-1The two Chomskys.
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5How racial disparity does not help make sense of patterns of police violence.
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5The New Class War
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5Corporate Executives are making way more money than anybody reports.
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17The media isn’t pro-Trump or pro-Hillary. It’s pro-itself.
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5What's good news for British arms companies is bad news for Yemenis.
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8Hi! I’m Jocelyn! I’m Passionate About Cloud Storage! Some enjoyable satire from Joe Bob Briggs at an unexpected source. (What the hell is he doing writing for Taki's Mag.)
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10Britain's secret wars.
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15New alt-right Twitter clone Gab is the ultimate safe space for racist assholes, Trump supporters and dear old Milo.
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11How America became a 1% society.
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6Money for nothing.
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5Why Breitbart conquered the media.
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3It's time to address the national teacher shortage.
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-3Nepal: The Maoist dream. (Autoplay music)
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5How companies are quietly changing your health plan to make you pay more.
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6Faith schools produce narrow-minded children. (Autoplay video)
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14Senator, You're No Socrates: a lovely breakdown of Malcolm Roberts and his claim that "Like Socrates, I love asking questions to get to the truth."
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8The recovery finally reached most Americans in 2015.
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17Fancy dorms aren’t the main reason tuition is skyrocketing.
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8Someone just has to ask the question of whether or not theoretical physics is a waste of resources.
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6The University of Chicago’s opposition to safe spaces isn’t about free speech. It’s about fundraising.
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16I was a CIA whistleblower. Now I'm a Black inmate. Here's how I see American racism.
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1Hysteria and hypocrisy in the war on mediocrity. (subscription required. Click here for a secondary site)
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12Greece: A country for sale.
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8The plight of the overworked nonprofit employee.
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8Michigan's prosecutors continue to defy the Supreme Court.
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22Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives
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9Remembering Barbara Lee's lone opposition to the AUMF after 9/11.
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5The Seattle Seahawks #AllLivesMatter protest is an act of political cowardice.
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11Fifteen years after 9/11, it looks like the War on Terror is still in its opening act.
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4The last defense against DRM.
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11How the poverty line makes more women vulnerable to sexual harrassment.
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3Yanis Varoufakis’s fantasy politics.
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8‘Rolling coal’ in diesel trucks, to rebel and provoke.
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7When people ate people, a strange disease emerged.
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9What if antibiotics were to stop working?
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19"Cashing in on the Culture Wars": because the reason for "PC" culture in universities is that they're being run like corporations, with their HR departments and their luring in of more investors, with the compromises and internal struggles endemic to both.
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10This is the art gallery inspired by the release of Brock Turner.
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11Wealthy students are touring colleges in private jets. (Autoplay video)
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8The South is organizing but there is no one to cover it.
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2Slavoj Žižek explains why we shouldn’t pity or romanticize refugees.
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10The Medical Board of California cracks down on anti-vaccine Dr. Bob Sears for committing "gross negligence" for providing vaccine exemptions based on a lack of evidence.
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8Why Vox's Matt Yglesias should go back in time and unwrite his recent column.
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16Apparently no one knows what the fuck Aleppo is.
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10Almost everyone gets Russia wrong, apart from Obama
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-8The unrelenting pundit-led effort to delegitimize all negative reporting about Hillary Clinton.
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3How Snowden stayed hidden in Hong Kong for two weeks.
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19...a poignant truth about Schlafly: she was extraordinarily talented yet denied the full measure of her greatness by the forces she most faithfully served. (Rest assured, the article still acknowledges her antifeminism)
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-8A left/feminist appreciation of the late Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly.
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22Some Christians put forward difficult-to-trace Hitler quotes as evidence he was an atheist. Richard Carrier tracked down these fraudulent quote mines.
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11Today belongs to the workers.
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20Jerry Coyne on novelist Thomas Wolfe, "his white suit unsullied by research", taking on Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky.
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14Fifty years of Star Trek.
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18Framed: The LA Times's six part series about how a PTA mom's life was ruined when she was framed with planted drugs.
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3Secrets of a global super court.
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12The original underclass.
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10The rise and fall of Black Wall Street.