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Why You’re Biased About Being Biased
In a classic experiment in 1953, students spent an hour doing repetitive, monotonous tasks, such as rotating square pegs a quarter turn, again and again. Then the experimenters asked the students to persuade someone else that this mind-numbing experience was in fact interesting… By Jim Davies
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Why are Republicans so cruel to the poor? Paul Ryan’s profound hypocrisy stands for a deeper problem
Paul Ryan has dreamed of slashing Medicaid since his keg-party days — and that blithe hostility is widespread. B Chauncey DeVega.
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Trump Lets Saudis Off His ‘Muslim Ban’
By leaving Saudi Arabia and other key terrorism sponsors off his “Muslim ban,” President Trump shows the same cowardice and dishonesty that infected the Bush and Obama administrations, writes Robert Parry.
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Spare Us the Theatrics
Trump’s Fortress America is rooted in the Obama years. By Justin Raimondo.
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Religious Liberty is Only for Christians in Texas
Texas Republicans talk a lot about religious freedom, meanwhile GOP leaders impose their own beliefs about abortion and LGBT rights on everybody else. By David R. Brockman. (Nov. 1, 2016)
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Peace Shall Destroy Many
‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’ Miriam Toews on how pacifism can lead to violence.
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Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It
I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account. By Cal Newport.
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Why Fahrenheit 451 is supremely relevant to the times we live in
The main themes and messages of Fahrenheit 451 — seen through the lens of author Ray Bradbury’s preferred interpretation. By Gautham Shenoy.
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Ban the burqa? Scrap the sari? Why women’s clothing matters
British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? By Rafia Zakaria.
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When Truth Falls Apart
How do we restore consensus in an age so divorced from fact? By Maria Bustillos.
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Asymmetric Warfare: The Fight Against Conservative Smear Campaigns
The right wing has attacked Hillary with the equivalent of “Chinese water torture” using the slow drip of unsubstantiated innuendo to drive sane people mad. Let’s together dive into this deep and troubled ocean of conservative misrepresentation, fable and fabrication to see how it all works. This is our burden when we find ourselves in a war fought so disproportionately on one side.
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Inside the OPM Hack, the Cyberattack That Shocked the US Government
On April 15, 2015, a network engineer noticed a strange signal emanating from the US Office of Personnel Management. That was just the tip of the iceberg. By Brendan I. Koerner.
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Compare the coverage of Mosul and East Aleppo and it reveals a lot
In both countries, two large Sunni Arab urban centres – East Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – are being besieged by pro-government forces strongly supported by foreign airpower. Yet the coverage is very different. By Patrick Cockburn.
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Frugality Isn’t What It Used to Be
What use is there today for one of the oldest virtues? By Joe Pinsker.
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Trump for dummies
When Republicans express outrage at Donald Trump's racism, they are being disingenuous or self-deluded.
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Dear #WeAreTheLeft, You Are Not The Left
The Rot of Liberal White Supremacy. By Jeff Kunzler.
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My Resistance to Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel helped turn the horrors of the Holocaust into an industry of manipulative sentimentality. By Corey Robin.
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The Famous Ethics Professor And The Women Who Accused Him
Thomas Pogge, one of the world’s most prominent ethicists, stands accused of manipulating students to gain sexual advantage. Did the fierce champion of the world's disempowered abuse his own power? By Katie J.M. Baker.
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Outrage after big labor crafts law paying their members less than non-union workers
When Los Angeles City Council members voted two years ago to give hotel workers a raise, Bill Martinez was the type of worker they said they wanted to help. Martinez, a 53-year-old bellhop… By Peter Jamison. (Apr. 9)
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America’s pathetic inability to punish the powerful
To understand is to forgive, and the elite and the upper class understand their own. By Jeff Spross.
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