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Republican Apostate
October 24, 2017
Q&A with Bruce Bartlett author of "The Truth Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Separating Facts From Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks."

Just Deserts
October 16, 2017
Some seventy-two years from the last American execution for desertion, the firing squad is a tough-guy pantomime for hacks and hams.

Greek Tragedy
October 10, 2017
A masterful narrative of the Greek debt crisis, Varoufakis's Adults in the Room makes a case for the revival of a humane internationalism.

Weekly Bafflements
October 06, 2017
Wow who besides literally everyone saw this coming. After decades of gossip and backchannel talk, somebody finally reported out and published the story that Harvey Weinstein is an enormous fucking creep. He looks like overripe fruit, and makes young women watch him shower. Cool ...