The Unholy Union Between Media, Politics, and Money that is Risking Our Basic Freedoms

The Colosseum
Sep 2, 2018 · 7 min read

When the body of 20-year-old student Mollie Tibbets was recovered from an Iowa cornfield last month, you could almost recite in scripted form the shameful spectacle that would follow. The tragic and violent loss of a family’s beloved daughter would retain its simple and awful truth for nary a scant moment before being warped into just another…

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The Colosseum

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Classical Rome gathered here to preside over the unravelling of society. A lively arena in which to be entertained, to fight, to contemplate, or to escape.

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