Encounters with Anonymous: Double Down
Thinking about time in this latest column on photography from Omar Willey.
Why the Calorie is Broken
Calories consumed minus calories burned: it’s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it doesn’t work. Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley of Gastropod investigate.
A Tax on Wall Street Trading is the Best Solution to Income Inequality
A way to curb the redistribution of wealth to the 1%? Dean Baker considers.
Sunday Comics
She’s reading Sunday Comics, “oh, Basho’s cute.” She’s reading Sunday Comics when they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
Free Thing of the Week: Gomel, 1986
Inspired by the thirty-first anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, this six song album from Naviar Records is our Thing of the Week.
10+ Years of Activists Silenced: Internet Intermediaries’ Long History of Censorship
People cheering for companies who have censored content in recent weeks may soon find the same tactic used against causes they love. Cindy Cohn writes.
Encounters with Anonymous: Missing Pieces
Of context, inference, proof, and pure dumb luck. Omar Willey contemplates.
Modern Economists: The Inept Firefighters’ Club
When economists are regularly rewarded for being unimaginative yes men and getting wrong everything important, why should we expect them to improve? Dean Baker writes.
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