politics
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Jonathan Mann music video about the torture memos in language taken directly from them. Chilling.
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“Next time you fly to Heathrow and hand your passport to the man with the badge, he’s going to see ‘United States of America’ and look up and grin.”
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2008 voting patterns in the South match patterns of cotton production in the antebellum South, which match…
Studies »
“A series of new experiments show that misinformation can exercise a ghostly influence on people’s minds after it has been debunked”
Reflections »
Rugged individualism of Goldwater-style conservativism is no longer applicable to our nation’s problems — or to our understanding of how humans are built.
Quick Hits »
“The application’s algorithms work off six key tenets of spin and bias, which the company derived from both the guidelines of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code Of Ethics.”
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Article posits that greater economic inequality leads to greater Democratic electoral margins. Includes some fascinating observations about education- and income- based voting patterns.
