CATEGORIES

What Have We Learned?
Newsweek

What Have We Learned?

We will never forget 9/11. But a more interesting question at the 20th anniversary is, what should we remember—or more...

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September 17, 2021
The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis
New York magazine

The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis

Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual assault and abuse, the massive, multinational, extralegal institution remains in conflict with itself.

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September 13 - 26, 2021
Biden's Benghazi Moment
Newsweek

Biden's Benghazi Moment

How the deadly Kabul AIRPORT ATTACK and bungled Afghanistan pullout could HAUNT HIS PRESIDENCY–and cost him the midterms.

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September 10, 2021
Was ‘Chaos-istan' Inevitable?
Newsweek

Was ‘Chaos-istan' Inevitable?

How Biden's influence during the Obama administration had long-lasting effects

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September 10, 2021
When The State Is Absent
Bloomberg Businessweek

When The State Is Absent

A year after Beirut’s devastating port blast, the government is AWOL— so the people have stepped in to rebuild

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September 06, 2021
Fighting Terrorism from Afar
Newsweek

Fighting Terrorism from Afar

Can Joe Biden’s ‘over-the-horizon’ strategy in Afghanistan keep America safe? Defense experts are skeptical

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September 03, 2021
Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20
New York magazine

Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20

We should also acknowledge that a pervasive question after 9/11—“Why do they hate us?”—was the wrong question.

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August 30 - September 12, 2021
DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'
Reason magazine

DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'

DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.

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October 2021
Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?
Reason magazine

Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?

A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.

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October 2021
Everything is Infrastructure Now
Reason magazine

Everything is Infrastructure Now

How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning

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October 2021
Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate
Reason magazine

Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate

The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.

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October 2021
Cashed Out
Reason magazine

Cashed Out

What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?

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October 2021
Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.
Reason magazine

Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.

After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.

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October 2021
Ammon's Army
Mother Jones

Ammon's Army

He built a platform that can summon 60,000 people for uprisings on demand. He’s running to become governor of Idaho. Inside Ammon Bundy’s crusade to liberate the West.

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September/October 2021
Mad As Hell
Mother Jones

Mad As Hell

What’s fueling America’s political rage?

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September/October 2021
Us Lawyers Appeal UK Decision To Block Assange Extradition
AppleMagazine

Us Lawyers Appeal UK Decision To Block Assange Extradition

Lawyers acting on behalf of the U.S. government this week challenged a British judge’s decision to block the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the United States, arguing that assessments of Assange’s mental health should be reviewed.

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August 13, 2021
White Progressives in Pursuit of Racial Virtue
The Atlantic

White Progressives in Pursuit of Racial Virtue

What two new books reveal about the moral limits of anti-racist self-help

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September 2021
The 9/11 Century
The Atlantic

The 9/11 Century

Twenty years on, how should we think about the worst terrorist attack in American history?

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September 2021
‘Going Against Trump Is the Death Knell'
Newsweek

‘Going Against Trump Is the Death Knell'

Six months after the Capitol riot, the 10 GOP representatives who voted to Impeach Donald Trump are fighting for their political lives

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August 06, 2021
Everyone In San Francisco Has Something To Say About Chesa
New York magazine

Everyone In San Francisco Has Something To Say About Chesa

Chesa Boudin, the son of Weathermen radicals, is the nation’s most progressive prosecutor in one of the country’s most liberal cities. And now, 18 months into his term, many residents are trying to throw him out.

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August 2 - 15, 2021
86 minutes with … Kathryn Garcia
New York magazine

86 minutes with … Kathryn Garcia

The bureaucrat enters a new phase of life: political celebrity.

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August 2 - 15, 2021
Daniel Everette Hale – Call Me a Traitor
New York magazine

Daniel Everette Hale – Call Me a Traitor

Daniel Hale was an Air Force intelligence analyst who hated American empire, found Edward Snowden too compromising, and taught us almost everything we know about the drone war. The documents he leaked were published in 2015. Then he waited. Nothing changed.

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July 19 - August 1, 2021
Before, During, After, January 6
New York magazine

Before, During, After, January 6

The Historical Perspective at Six Months

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July 5-18, 2021
How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?
Reason magazine

How Many Union Members Does It Take To Operate A Train?

President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.

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August - September 2021
Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt
Reason magazine

Economist John Cochrane Is Still Worried About the Debt

The U.S. national debt held by the public is currently almost $22 trillion, or about $67,000 per citizen, surpassing the country’s annual GDP for the first time since World War II. The Congressional Budget Office predicted in March that the U.S. debt would grow to 102 percent of GDP by the end of 2021, to 107 percent by 2031, and to 202 percent by 2051. Those estimates came before President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, which made the long-term budget outlook even worse.

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August - September 2021
America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics
Reason magazine

America's Cross-Partisan Dalliance With Eugenics

A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.

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August - September 2021
Autonomous Mexico
Reason magazine

Autonomous Mexico

What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state

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August - September 2021
Who Gets To Decide the Truth?
Reason magazine

Who Gets To Decide the Truth?

We all get a say—not just priests, princes, or partisans.

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August - September 2021
How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism
Reason magazine

How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism

Relatively open borders helped halt the early 20th Century welfare state.

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August - September 2021
Are We Headed For A Cyber Pearl Harbor?
Newsweek

Are We Headed For A Cyber Pearl Harbor?

Digital attacks could push the U.S. and Russia into a Real War.

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July 02 - 09, 2021