351 words Slavoj Žižek: The Cologne attacks were an obscene version of carnival
314 words Al Jazeera America to close down
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306 words Maajid Nawaz - "Why We Can’t Stay Silent on Germany’s Mass Sex Assaults"
472 words Millennials now hold the biggest share of the US voting age population. Politicians ignore them at their peril.
563 words If We’re Going To End Factory Farms, We Need To Eat Way Less Meat
349 words Freedom isn't more powerful than fear. That's the problem: Fear is powerful enough to induce people to try and deny hundreds of thousands of Americans their constitutional rights and due process.
707 words Middle-class families, pillar of the American dream, are no longer in the majority, study finds
325 words This is Fascism and we should say it clearly...while we can
749 words What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II
426 words A professor writes on being fed up with trigger warnings.
572 words That's How They Get You: biking on sidewalks, jaywalking, standing in hallways; offenses that can get you arrested if you're a person of color.
313 words A Story About What it Feels Like to Grow Old
341 words Native Lives matter too - American Indians are more likely than any other racial group to be killed by the police, but apart from media outlets like Indian Country Today, almost no attention is paid to this pattern of violence against already devastated peoples.
321 words Americans Aren’t Becoming More Politically Independent, They Just Like Saying They Are | FiveThirtyEight
302 words The Lessons of Anwar Al-Awlaki
423 words Fat but Fit? - The medical evidence is overwhelming – obesity is bad for you and it would be a major mistake to give up fighting it
414 words Are Lawyers Getting Dumber? Yes, says the woman who runs the bar exam
317 words Piracy gave me a future
293 words Book review: ‘Notes on the Death of Culture’ by Mario Vargas Llosa -- In this accessible set of essays, the Nobel laureate argues that we have reached a time in which there is no culture