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Walker, Wisconsin Ranger
February 05, 2015
When the results of the Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll dropped last week, Scott Walker appeared to have the competition in a chokehold. Walker led the other Republican presidential hopefuls with 15 percent of respondents naming the Wisconsin governor as their ...

Anarchy in Exarchia
February 04, 2015
Just down the road from Kolonaki, the most fashionable district in central Athens, lies Exarchia, a bohemian city within a city, home to artists, students, intellectuals, shopkeepers, and, most notoriously, anarchists. The neighborhood is a shrine to the art of graffiti—block ...

Iowa Doesn’t Matter
January 29, 2015
The Iowa presidential caucuses are only a year away, and so it’s fitting that the 2016 GOP primary would kick off in earnest in Des Moines. Congressman Steve King’s “Iowa Freedom Summit” last weekend featured nine hours of speeches from almost twenty-four Republican ...

Paying Tribute to Yet Another Petro-Tyrant
January 28, 2015
It’s been a rough week in Middle East policy for the Obama administration, though they don’t seem to realize it. Consider recent events: Iranian nuclear negotiations are threatened by Republicans and Democrats who want to force through new sanctions, with Israeli prime ...

Noam Chomsky on American Sniper
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on American Sniper Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark ...

Noam Chomsky on Global Terrorists
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and Annie Shreffler.

Noam Chomsky on Drone Attacks
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Drone Attacks Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and ...

Noam Chomsky on Cuba and Paris
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and Annie Shreffler.

Noam Chomsky on Living Memory
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Living Memory Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and ...

Noam Chomsky on Boston’s Hospital Shooting
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Boston’s Hospital Shooting Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, 22, 2015. Video by Mark ...

Noam Chomsky on Torture
January 27, 2015
Noam Chomsky on Torture Noam Chomsky and the ACLU Massachusetts’s Kade Crockford spoke at The Baffler’s talk “The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us” at the Lily Pad in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Video by Mark Steele and ...