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| Jul 28, 2026 | Sam and Dean Split Into Solo Comics: Real Science of Vodou, Blood, and Appalachian Horror | By Brandon Fisher
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| Jul 17, 2026 | JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds | JK Rowling has spoken about how she wrote the first Harry Potter book while she was employed at Amnesty International and how much that experience influenced her writing, and how she learned “the power of human empathy” from working there. ... |
| May 11, 2026 | CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Trump and Xi face a test over AI control | Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 11:00 SIN/HK | 0400 - 05:00 CET
In the U.S.-China tech race, Beijing has underscored AI control from the start; the U.S. seems only now to be taking it seriously.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi... |
| Apr 6, 2026 | Jacob Siegel’s Error-Filled Book On ‘Censorship’ Got Fact-Checked. He’s Calling It Censorship. | Fact-checking is not censorship. Asking a publication to correct factual errors is not censorship. Pointing out that someone’s book contains demonstrably false claims is not censorship. None of this should require explanation. And yet here ... |
| Jan 10, 2026 | Легкое «нелегкое чтение» — книги, которые можно прочесть за вечер | В новогодние праздники хочется отдыхать качественно, и не только телом, но и духом. Мы в Beeline Cloud подобрали короткие, но «сложные» книги, которые помогут перезагрузить мозг — и порассуждали о том, зачем вообще читать такую литературу.
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| Dec 10, 2025 | This Is What You’re Funding When You Support Techdirt | Last week, we launched our monthlong fundraiser with a commemorative Techdirt / 30 years of Section 230 coin for donations of $100 or more. The initial response has been great, but we need more support to hit our targets.
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| Jul 20, 2025 | Page: Is the Jeffrey Epstein scandal finally behind us? Don’t bet on it. | Yet this case, like any other “heater,” as prosecutors often call an attention-grabbing case like this one, is not about to slip far out of the rumor mills and conspiracy theorists across party lines.
Whether they exist or not, “the Epstein... |
| Jul 12, 2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: July 6th – 12th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, we looked at the encryption dilemma created by the EARN IT Act, while a federal case showed that cops already had plenty of options when dealing with device encryption. There was pushback against the Trump ... |
| Jul 8, 2025 | Who Goes MAGA? | With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern ... |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Coming to America? In 2025, the US to some looks less like a dream and more like a place to avoid | Polling by Pew Research Center from January through April found that opinions of the U.S. have worsened over the past year in 15 of the 24 countries it surveyed.
Trump and many of his supporters maintain that migrants in the country illegal... |
| May 19, 2025 | Where Did All Those Brave Free Speech Warriors Go? | Since the start of the Trump administration, many of our biggest concerns about how MAGA would attack free speech have not only proven true, but have turned out to be understated. Nearly all parts of the administration are seeking to silenc... |
| Dec 24, 2024 | Расследование: Spotify заказывает треки у артистов и выкладывает их под выдуманными именами | Журналист Лиз Пелли смогла раскрыть схему злоупотреблений со стороны Spotify. Выяснилось, что стриминговый сервис за бесценок заказывает музыку у неизвестных артистов, а затем выкладывает на платформу под именами выдуманных музыкантов со сг... |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Почему свободного времени всё меньше, если производительность труда растёт? | Последние сто лет производительность труда ежегодно растёт. Благодаря научно-техническому прогрессу человек с компьютером заменяет тысячу бухгалтеров и вычислителей 19 века. Но не работает меньше. Скорее наоборот. Он работает больше.
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| May 30, 2024 | 'Putting Families First': Parents Applaud Expanded Tutoring by Foghorn Tutors: CEO Ethan Putterman | Ethan Putterman, CEO of Foghorn Tutors
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Parents Applaud Foghorn Tutors' Expanded Family Offerings, 'Putting Families First': CEO Ethan Putterman
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| May 29, 2024 | 2024 Women’s Right Award: Ethan Putterman and Mountbattan Tutors on New Award | Ethan Putterman, CEO of Mountbattan Tutors
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Mountbattan Tutors CEO Ethan Putterman is excited to see the impact of this award and are committed to supporti... |
| Apr 7, 2024 | See the list of notable past total solar eclipses in the U.S. since 1778 | On April 8, 2024, a rare total solar eclipse will be visible in parts of the United States. Those in the path of totality will have the opportunity to see the sun be fully covered by the moon for several minutes.
Total solar eclipses are ra... |
| Dec 29, 2023 | We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2023 | It’s time to take stock of the year that was in health and science: the meteoric rise of weight loss drugs, the approval of the first CRISPR-based therapy, the continuing effects of abortion access restrictions after the Dobbs decision, and... |
| Nov 6, 2023 | Human Beings Are Not Puppets, And We Should Probably Stop Acting Like They Are | A few years ago, we wrote about Joe Bernstein’s absolutely fantastic long read on how we’re probably all looking at the concept of disinformation wrong. As our title said, “most information on disinformation is misinformation.” The underlyi... |
| Aug 29, 2023 | How Merve Emre became the hottest — and most reviled — name in literary criticism | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Last winter, the 37-year-old literary critic and Wesleyan professor Merve Emre stood in front of a microphone in Rachel Comey's ... |
| Jun 3, 2023 | Why Gen Zers and millennials are looking for second jobs | Gen Zers and millennials are looking for second jobs to increase financial security. Kittiphan Teerawattanakul/Getty Images
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| May 9, 2023 | Gen Z is the Hustle Generation | Redeem now
Shola West always found it difficult to concentrate in a classroom. She didn't realize she had dyslexia until years after leaving school and always felt she learned better from doing than sitting and listening. So after high-scho... |
| May 4, 2023 | Ethan Putterman Launches New YouTube Channel, The Existentialist Cafe | Ethan Andrew Putterman
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| Apr 27, 2023 | Skylake Tutors Offering Free Mentoring to Students in Florida and Georgia: CEO Ethan Putterman | Mentoring is Key to College Success
Expanding its services, Skylake Tutors is now offering mentoring to high school students in the Miami and Atlanta, Georgia
High school students are often faced with difficult decisions about their future.... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | The Chatbot Revolution: Ethan Putterman Discusses the Role of AI in Tutoring | CEO of SkyLake Tutors and The College King, Ethan Putterman
Open AI will transform education
AI-based tutoring systems may provide a more personalized learning experience for students over the coming decades, according to Ethan Andrew Putte... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | The AI Doomers’ Playbook | |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Forget the 'death of downtowns' — we're about to experience the Big City Renaissance | Redeem now
America's great cities are in a precarious spot.
As the workforce adapts to the pandemic-jumbled future, millions of people across the country are still not going into the office five days a week. In January, 41% of Americans wer... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories | When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable product long before Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the keys. But as soon as he took the wheel, Musk removed many of the guardrails Twitter had put i... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Science has finally cracked the mystery of why so many people believe in conspiracy theories | When it comes to the spread of cockamamie conspiracy theories, Twitter was a maximum viable product long before Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the keys. But as soon as he took the wheel, Musk removed many of the guardrails Twitter had put i... |
| Aug 18, 2022 | The Lawfare Podcast: Daniel Bessner on the Restraint v. Liberal Internationalism Debate | Last month, the cover of Harper's Magazine declared that the American century is over. Then it asked a single question: What's next?
To dig into that question, Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien sat down with the cover story’s author, Da... |
| Jul 21, 2022 | Two Dogmas Of The Free Speech Panic | Antonio García Martínez recently invited me on his podcast, The Pull Request. I was thrilled. Antonio is witty, charming, and intimidatingly brilliant (he was a PhD student in physics at Berkeley, and it shows). We did the episode, and we h... |
| Jul 1, 2022 | DAOs Are the New Way of Impact Work | The Web3 community is, at heart, rooted in profound optimism. The increasing ubiquity of this technology makes it possible to envision a world where everyone is equipped to both survive and thrive.
Essentially, Web3 has become a Schelling P... |
| Apr 8, 2022 | Inside the dark web's '#1 Hitman Marketplace' as alleged owners arrested in crackdown | TechInside the dark web's '#1 Hitman Marketplace' as alleged owners arrested in crackdown
Romanian police have arrested the suspected operators of a 'scam' murder-for-hire site where thousands of paying customers ordered hits on others - an... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | artnet : The Prospect 5 Triennial Sees Art Looking to Ground Itself in Healing Acts and Historical Reckoning | Art Criticism The Prospect 5 Triennial Sees Art Looking to Ground Itself in Healing Acts and Historical Reckoning
The fifth edition of the important art survey is in its final week.
Ben Davis, January 19, 2022 Elliott Hundley, The Balcony (... |
| Jan 3, 2022 | artnet : From Immersive Everything to the Rise of Museum Unions, These 7 Trends Defined the Art World in 2021—and Will Shape the Year to Come | Opinion From Immersive Everything to the Rise of Museum Unions, These 7 Trends Defined the Art World in 2021-and Will Shape the Year to Come
A look at the movements that defined 2021 in the art world, and how they may evolve in the year ahe... |
| Nov 19, 2021 | TECHLASH 2.0: The Next-Gen TECHLASH Is Bigger, Stronger & Faster | The roll-out of the “Facebook Papers” on Monday October 25 felt like drinking from a fire hose. Seventeen news organizations analyzed documents received from the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, and published numerous articles simult... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | A contrarian take on the disinformation panic | If you’ve followed the news over the last few years, you’re probably convinced that we’re living in a golden age of conspiracy theories and disinformation.
Whether it’s QAnon or the January 6 insurrection or anti-vaccine hysteria, many have... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | New Research Shows Social Media Doesn't Turn People Into Assholes (They Already Were), And Everyone's Wrong About Echo Chambers | We recently wrote about Joe Bernstein's excellent Harper's cover story, which argues that we're all looking at disinformation/misinformation the wrong way, and that the evidence of disinformation on social media really influencing people is... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | New Research Shows Social Media Doesn't Turn People Into Assholes (They Already Were), And Everyone's Wrong About Echo Chambers | We recently wrote about Joe Bernstein’s excellent Harper’s cover story, which argues that we’re all looking at disinformation/misinformation the wrong way, and that the evidence of disinformation on social media really influencing people is... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 299: The Misinformation About Disinformation | Disinformation continues to be a major topic of discussion across many fields, but a lot of what people believe about the subject is… questionable at best. One of the more thoughtful writers on the subject is Joe Bernstein from Buzzfeed New... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 299: The Misinformation About Disinformation | Disinformation continues to be a major topic of discussion across many fields, but a lot of what people believe about the subject is... questionable at best. One of the more thoughtful writers on the subject is Joe Bernstein from Buzzfeed N... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | The Lawfare Podcast: The Disinformation Industrial Complex | This week on our Arbiters of Truth series on our online information ecosystem, we’re going to be talking about … disinformation! What else? It’s everywhere. It’s ruining society. It’s the subject of endless academic articles, news reports, ... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Most Information About Disinformation Is Misinformation | Reporter Joseph Bernstein recently published a fantastic cover story in Harpers all about "disinformation" and "fake news" but not in the way you normally think about it. It's not like most such articles -- often decryin... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Most Information About Disinformation Is Misinformation | Reporter Joseph Bernstein recently published a fantastic cover story in Harpers all about “disinformation” and “fake news” but not in the way you normally think about it. It’s not like most such articles — often decrying just how much disin... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation) | Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English language. There’s been a lot of invective and ... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Substack doubles down on uncensored ‘free speech’ with acquisition of Letter | Substack announced last week that it acquired Letter, a platform that encourages written dialogue and debate. The financials of the deal weren’t disclosed, but this acquisition follows Substack’s recent $65 million raise.
Newsletters are al... |
| Jun 7, 2021 | Does Taking Down Content Lead Ignorant People To Believe It's More Likely To Be True? | Harpers has a giant and fascinating article by Barrett Swanson entitled The Anxiety of Influencers that has received some attention online. Most of the reactions are the kind of typical tut tutting about the existence of TikTok/Instagram in... |
| Jun 7, 2021 | Does Taking Down Content Lead Ignorant People To Believe It's More Likely To Be True? | Harpers has a giant and fascinating article by Barrett Swanson entitled The Anxiety of Influencers that has received some attention online. Most of the reactions are the kind of typical tut tutting about the existence of TikTok/Instagram in... |
| May 11, 2021 | The Node: What's New Is Old | There are plenty of million-dollar ideas in crypto, a movement that is trying to rebuild and reimagine everything digital. This development process is ad hoc, with individuals, companies and loosely affiliated teams identifying and executin... |
| May 8, 2021 | AI is turning us into de facto cyborgs | Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year.
Progress in technology and increased levels of private investment in startup AI companies is accelerating, according to the 2021 AI Index, an annual study of AI imp... |
| May 8, 2021 | AI is turning us into de facto cyborgs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Progress in technology and increased levels of pr... |
| Feb 20, 2021 | Original Content podcast: Apple’s ‘Ted Lasso’ is all about relentless optimism | Your enjoyment of “Ted Lasso” — a sports comedy that debuted on Apple TV+ last year — will probably depend on how you respond to the titular football coach played by Jason Sudeikis.
As we discuss on the latest episode of the Original Conten... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Professional Assholes Equate Consequences With 'Cancel Culture' To Obscure That They're Finally Being Held Accountable | You may recall, last summer, there was a big dustup regarding a letter published in Harper’s Magazine about cancel culture (though it didn’t use that term). I pointed out the irony of a bunch of very famous writers whining about being silen... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Professional Assholes Equate Consequences With 'Cancel Culture' To Obscure That They're Finally Being Held Accountable | You may recall, last summer, there was a big dustup regarding a letter published in Harper's Magazine about cancel culture (though it didn't use that term). I pointed out the irony of a bunch of very famous writers whining about being silen... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Money should flow like water … but should water be like money? | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
This week marks a dubious milestone for the finance industry: Monday was the fir... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Women who’ve dealt with IVF and infertility say they felt judged by Lena Dunham’s IVF essay | Lena Dunham’s essay talks about her failed IVF attempt and experience with online infertility communities.
Some mothers who have been through infertility were hurt by the characterization.
Others thought the essay has sparked important conv... |
| Oct 12, 2020 | Thanks To Trump Administration, 1.8 Billion Tons More Greenhouse Gases Will Be Released | 1
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| Sep 29, 2020 | Why Brands Need To Pay Attention To Cancel Culture | getty |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditional Surrender | Every year, in early August, new articles appear that debate whether the dropping of the atomic bombs in 1945 was justified. Earlier this month, the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, was no exception.
The New York Time... |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Khadijah Queen’s ‘Anodyne’ captures bittersweet complexities of the human condition | In her sixth book, “Anodyne,” — released Tuesday — Boulder-based poet and University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor of creative writing Khadijah Queen peels back the curtain to reveal rhythmic glimpses of resilience. Boulder-based ... |
| Aug 4, 2020 | How Might the Sleeper Agents From “The Americans” Interfere in the Election? | Setting the Stage
As the November 2020 presidential election approaches, it is worth imagining how a foreign adversary might attempt to intervene in the domestic political process. We have no evidence that any of the precise things we consi... |
| Jul 15, 2020 | What Alexander Meiklejohn Had to Say About Cancel Culture | Early in the Cold War, the preeminent First Amendment theorist Alexander Meiklejohn denounced cancel culture as an appendage of “the monster” of capitalism. Red-baiters then were trying to silence leftists as threats to national security. D... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | What That Harper's Letter About Cancel Culture Could Have Said | Earlier this week I wrote about the open letter that was published in Harper’s, signed by around 150 very prominent writers/thinkers. My response to it was to heavily criticize both the premise and the specifics in the letter, and to argue ... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Explained: The debate over Harper’s open letter against ‘cancel culture’ | Among the signatories of the open letter on Justice and Open Debate were Noam Chomsky, JK Rowling, Garry Kasparov, Salman Rushdie, Steven Pinker, Susan Madrak and Margaret Atwood
On July 7, American magazine Harper’s published an open lette... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | What That Harper's Letter About Cancel Culture Could Have Said | Earlier this week I wrote about the open letter that was published in Harper's, signed by around 150 very prominent writers/thinkers. My response to it was to heavily criticize both the premise and the specifics in the letter, and to argue ... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced | There’s a slightly bizarre Letter on Justice and Open Debate that Harper’s Magazine is publishing, signed by a long list of famous people (many of whom I respect, and plenty of whom I think are terribly entitled wannabe “controversial” inte... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced | There's a slightly bizarre Letter on Justice and Open Debate that Harper's Magazine is publishing, signed by a long list of famous people (many of whom I respect, and plenty of whom I think are terribly entitled wannabe "controversial&... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | Stop trying to shame companies that took PPP loans | Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of Insider Today. Please sign up here.
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| May 17, 2020 | Like 'building a 30-foot wall through Arlington Cemetery': Tribal leaders in Arizona are worried Trump's border wall will decimate sacred sites and leave smugglers no choice but to cut through native land | Redeem now
While the coronavirus pandemic has shut down a lot of the world, construction on President Trump's long-touted US-Mexico border wall has continued.
The US Customs and Border Protection is building 43 miles of 30-foot-high wall th... |
| Feb 16, 2020 | Top tips to win at South African Monopoly - including buying a hotel on Chapman’s Peak | Young Men Playing Monopoly (Photo by © Louise Gubb/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)
Monopoly has a long history with South Africa - the first local version appeared in the 80s.
Newer versions feature tourist attractions and corporate e... |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Obstruction of Congress, Impeachment and Constitutional Conflict | Among the most important outstanding issues as impeachment moves to the Senate is whether senators will attempt to obtain the testimony of senior executive branch officials who have, to date, declined to testify. Shortly before the New Year... |
| Sep 11, 2019 | FBI announces arrest of 167 alleged fraudsters in Nigeria in anti-fraud operation | The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested 281 individuals, including 167 in Nigeria, for their involvement in fraudulent business email compromise (BEC) schemes, the agency announced recently.
Working with over 12 agencies acro... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Newsletter: California Inc.: Southern California home prices dip for the first time in years | Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section.
I’m Business columnist David Lazarus, and here’s a rundown of upcoming stories this week and the highlights of last week.
In the market for new digs? We l... |
| Apr 5, 2019 | 5 questions with prison reform activist Rachelle Wilson | While Delaware has gotten nationwide praise recently for its proposed criminal justice reform, there’s still a long way to go.
Modern American mass incarceration goes all the way back to the Nixon administration in 1968. In a 2016 interview... |
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| Feb 8, 2018 | So Brave: Sports Illustrated Releases a #MeToo Swimsuit Issue | "So Brave!" is Broadly's new humor column in collaboration with the feminist satire site Reductress.
The #MeToo movement, which has been dubbed a mass "reckoning" with sexual abuse, can be hard to make sense of.
Aren't w... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | The Volunteers Helping Women Get Abortions Against All Odds | When Emily, a 41-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky, found out she was pregnant earlier this year, she decided to get an abortion. (Her name has been changed because she fears retribution at work if her colleagues found out.) Confident in h... |
| Aug 30, 2017 | Kansas City Was First to Embrace Google Fiber, Now Its Broadband Future Is 'TBD' | Broadband Land is an ongoing Motherboard series about the digital divide in America. Follow along here .
The shared interests of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, pretty much start and end with the Royals. The cities, which st... |
| Aug 17, 2017 | Price gouging on drugs? Shkreli's jury selection process reveals some deep public anger | If the US ever does pass laws prohibiting price gouging on drugs, pharma execs would be well advised to avoid any testing of the boundaries. There’s clearly a large segment of the public that’s ready to jail anyone who jacks up ... |
| Jun 20, 2016 | Meet the People Who Put Together the June Issue of VICE Magazine | This article appeared in the June issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe.
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Emma Beals is a journalist and producer focused on the rise of ISIS and conflicts in Syria and Iraq. She has reported from Turkey, Iraq, and Leban... |
| May 17, 2016 | Meet the Stars Behind the May Issue of VICE Magazine | This article appeared in the May issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe.
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Mansi Choksi writes about the intersection of gender, politics, crime, and pop culture. The South Asian Journalists Association reco... |
| Apr 20, 2016 | Why I Threw an Underground NYC Weed Party and Invited the Press | All photos by Alex Swerdloff unless otherwise noted
"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man." Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
On Friday night, I threw an underground pot party in New York Cit... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | What Are Armed Militiamen Really Doing in That Oregon Wildlife Refuge? | As you may have heard, earlier this week an armed militia group occupied a building on a federal wildlife preserve near Burns, Oregon. They were initially there in support of a local rancher and his son who ran afoul of the government after... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Techdirt Reading List: The Little Book Of Plagiarism | We’re back again with another in our weekly reading list posts of books we think our community will find interesting and thought provoking. Once again, buying the book via the Amazon links in this story also helps support Techdirt. |
| Apr 16, 2015 | New Appointees To Congressional Oversight Committees Have Deep Ties To Military/Industrial Contractors And The CIA | There are several reasons why the US government’s War on Terror will never end, but every one of them traces back to two prime motivators: money and power. They’re inseparable, as are the interests that almost always conflict but almost alw... |
| Oct 24, 2013 | Condé Nast Ends Intern Program, Raising Question: Are Internships About the Money? | October 24, 2013 2 min read
Publishing giant Condé Nast has ended its famous internship program in a move that begs the question: Has the importance of money eclipsed the value of experience?
Condé Nast's decision to discontinue its program... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | See Which Countries Are Land Grabbers with Land Matrix's Cool Maps | This map shows target countries of land deal investment. Notice they're largely centered in developing nations. Via Land Matrix
Land grabbing, in which foreign countries or companies buy or lease large swaths of a country's land, is one of ... |
| Feb 6, 2013 | Harper's Magazine Publisher Shakes Verbal Fist At Google; Romanticizes Own Profession; Quotes Teletubbies | John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's, is at it again. Last year, MacArthur bravely stood up against “the internet,” attacking it for a whole laundry list of evils, including copying and distributing the works of others (often at no ... |
| Sep 7, 2012 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Let's begin with the moment for which we've all been waiting with baited breath: the Obama administration's official decision on the Haqqani network. Drumroll, please. . . . They're bad guys. The New York Times reports, as do the Washington... |
| Jul 28, 2012 | In Praise Of Quick And Filthy | To paraphrase the late great David Foster Wallace, did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of software development reveals ideological strife and fanaticism on a nearly Godwin’s-law scale? Did you know that software development even ... |
| May 9, 2012 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Lots more on the foiled bomb plot after news broke yesterday that the suicide bomber was our kind of terrorist--more interested in ratting out Al Qaeda than blowing himself up. Assuming the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Assoc... |
| Mar 17, 2012 | The September Problem | All right. That’s it. You kids come in off my lawn, gather round the table, throw a log on the Nest, and hear now a tale of the dread and fabled Time Before The Web.
In the beginning, 1 there was Usenet, and it was good: online conversation... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | According to Noah Rosenberg of the New York Times, Viktor Bout, a high-profile Russian terrorist who became known as the "Merchant of Death," was found guilty in NY federal district court of a raft of crimes Rosenberg describes as... |
| Oct 28, 2011 | The Pandora's Box Critique of Drones, and Other Concerns | Yesterday Harper’s ran a piece by Daniel Swift on drones, criticizing the extensive but selective leaking of details about the CIA drone program. It’s a fair point, resonating with Ken Anderson’s concerns regarding the legitimacy issues tha... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | D.C. Circuit Argument in al-Zahrani | The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on Thursday in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, which--believe it or not--is not a Guantanamo habeas case. It is, however, a Guantanamo case--and the only one that has ever gott... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | Wow. I'm Verklempt! | It's not quite a trading card, which remains the high point, but an award for being "The Worst Possible Person in the World" comes pretty close.
Turns out that DOJ, in a footnote in a brief before the D.C. Circuit, cited this post... |
| May 23, 2011 | Speechless | I had somehow missed until this morning that Harpers Magazine had won a National Magazine Award for this Scott Horton story from 2010 about suicides at Guantanamo Bay--a story that spuriously suggests that the detainees in question were act... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | Wikileaks Reveals That The US Won't Comply With Treaty Obligations Concerning Investigations Into CIA Rendition | This is hardly a surprise, but it’s increasingly being confirmed by the various State Department cable leaks that the US Justice Department is failing to comply with its treaty obligations with other countries in their investigations into U... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | Why Is Traditional Media In Trouble? Don't Ask Harper's Publisher John MacArthur | Recently, John MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine, wrote of his skepticism about the Internet and wondered how it could be worth anyone's time. Long having doubted the "'revolutionary' potential of the Internet," he calls h... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | The Jeppessen Decision and the Issue of Good Faith in Asserting the State Secrets Privilege | Post-game analysis of the Ninth Circuit's en banc decision in Mohamed v. Jeppessen Dataplan continues. I've had my say already, but do want to respond to the suggestion by a couple of widely-read commentators that the government asserted th... |
