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The War In Chechnya: Diary of a Killer

This isn’t an article so much as a note from hell. After a brief introduction, Chivers lets the text do the talking and you plunge headfirst in to the diary [...]

Raise the Crime Rate

Where Gopnick (above) gives a survey of what prison reform advocates have been up to recently, Glazek appears to be one himself, and over the course of ten or so [...]

How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

A great summary of just how far behind the bleeding edge of modern industrial production America has fallen. Could you wake up 8,000 American workers in the middle of the [...]

Why Mitt Romney’s Entitlement-Privatization Plan Is Crazy

Taibbi doing what he does best. Actually, it makes sense. If we don’t cut health care and retirement benefits for old people, how can we pay for the carried-interest tax [...]

How Many Stephen Colberts Are There?

In June of last year, Stephen Colbert start his own Super PAC equipped with a 501 (c)(4) (which lets him gather as much money as people are willing to give) [...]

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?

This one might make you a little sick to your stomach. In just a few brief paragraphs, Marcia Angell distills the message of three recent books that take on America’s [...]

Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas

A brief list; a peek in to just how tight government control over the internet is about to become.  Read it while you can.

All Due Respect

Another glorious profile by Hessler – this time on the life of an old friend who has realized a fictional version of himself by moving to Japan.  The wimpy kid [...]

He Knew He Was Right

Goodbye Hitch. This is an old favorite that I thought I might drag out for the occasion. Though it is certainly due in part to the fact that Parker was [...]

Paper Tigers

Selected as part of David Brook’s 2011 Syndey awards,  Paper Tigers gives voice to the many frustrations of being a first generation Asian-American these days and, for those of us who [...]

Capitalism vs. the Climate

In sixteen rather succinct pages, Naomi Klein manages to explain just how correct extreme environmental arguments on both sides of the aisle are, and in so doing creates a sort of outline for  what [...]