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Two guys, two books: Five days in search of America — and readers
Josh Weil, Mike Harvkey
BBQ, urinals and part 1 of a tour diary by the authors of "The Great Glass Sea" and "In The Course of Human Events"
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: Ferguson looks like Iraq
Ian Blair
Military fatigues, heavily armored tanks, sniper rifles? Cleaver also called the local police "monumentally inept"
Paul Krugman on the “scary prospects” of more war
Elias Isquith
The Times columnist worries that, despite globalization making it irrational, countries may increasingly go to war
“War and Peace” tortured me: Facebook, email and the neuroscience of always being distracted
Michael Harris
I used to be able to read for hours without digital interruption. Now? That's just funny. I want my focus back!
7 astounding facts about the mind-blowing cost of war
Lynn Stuart Parramore
From World War II to the "war on terror," the tremendous cost of fighting is nothing short of catastrophic
Edward Snowden’s latest secrets: U.S. was responsible for an entire country’s Internet outage
Sarah Gray
The NSA whistle-blower spoke to Wired and revealed more secrets of the NSA's disturbing mass surveillance
West African governments employ century-old method of controlling Ebola
Joanna Rothkopf
The "cordon sanitaire" involves drawing a border around the infected area, and not letting anyone leave
AP Sportlight
Compiled By Paul Montella
Israel’s self-defeating “victory”: How peace was squandered in Gaza
Sandy Tolan
If Hamas emerges as the true winners of the 2014 invasion, Israel and the U.S. will have only themselves to blame
“Fake” sport, real exploitation: How pro wrestling mirrors American capitalism
Dan O'Sullivan
It's become a billion-dollar spectacle, and yet wrestling has managed to avoid real scrutiny. It's an age-old story
Report: Obama had strong words for GOP critic of Syria policy
Elias Isquith
The Daily Beast claims the president told an angry Republican senator that his argument was ... not great
ExxonMobil and Russia are now drilling for oil in the Arctic
Joanna Rothkopf
"To drill in the ecologically sensitive Arctic is nothing less than absurd"
Hillary’s overlooked ’16 worry: Will she write off the anti-interventionist left again?
Joan Walsh
For all the talk about her positioning around inequality, her foreign policy may alienate voters she needs in '16
Hillary’s break from Obama: Here’s what it really means (hint: She’s still a hawk)
Jim Newell
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama still have different approaches to foreign policy. Sound the alarms!
“I had no idea I’d been sex trafficked”: A terrifying true story
Anastasia Moloney
Lured from Colombia, she was trapped in a sex ring run by the Japanese mafia -- until she escaped to help others
Legendary comic Harry Shearer: Nixon was the last great tragicomic character of our time
Prachi Gupta
The "SNL" alumn and "Simpsons" actor talks to Salon about his Nixon satire and how he wants to revolutionize comedy
Noam Chomsky: How the bin Laden raid could have led to nuclear annihilation
Noam Chomsky
America's nuclear history is riddled with examples of narrowly avoided catastrophe. How long will that luck last?
Pick your doomsday: 9 end-of-the-world theories that will haunt your dreams
Sarah Gray
Climate change and nuclear war are obvious choices. But don't rule out a robot uprising — or something even weirder
Why Latin American diplomats are pulling out of Israel
Simeon Tegel, Alex Leff, Noga Tarnopolsky
More and more of the region's governments are yanking their ambassadors out of the country in protest
Beware the neocon exaggerators: They were wrong on Russia and the Mideast before — and they’re wrong about the threat now
Michael Lind
Stop worrying about Putin: Russia is a second-tier economic and military power, and not a threat to U.S. interests
Researchers: Warming responsible for Siberia’s mysterious hole
Lindsay Abrams
New report finds that a a release of methane from the thawing permafrost best explains the phenomenon
Stephen Colbert needs a drink: “Things might actually be as bad as we make them sound on cable news”
Sarah Gray
Colbert is hitting the hard stuff to report on the, well, hard stuff
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