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Political Violence and Privilege
Political Violence and Privilege
Why Violent Right-wing Extremism Doesn't Scare Americans
Matthew Harwood
May 20, 2018
Invasion of the Data Snatchers
Invasion of the Data Snatchers
Big Data and the Internet of Things Means the Surveillance of Everything
Matthew Harwood
May 20, 2018
To Terrify and Occupy
To Terrify and Occupy
How the Excessive Militarization of the Police is Turning Cops Into Counterinsurgents
Matthew Harwood
May 20, 2018
Force Rules Everything Around Us
Force Rules Everything Around Us
David Graeber gives a persuasive anarchist critique of state and corporate bureaucracy and why we’re so servile to them.
Matthew Harwood
Apr 14, 2016
Welcome Back to Freedom
Welcome Back to Freedom
Jaime Bartlett set out to chronicle the depravity of the Dark Web. He found something way more interesting and liberating.
Matthew Harwood
Dec 31, 2015
Your Data or Your Life
Your Data or Your Life
No matter what security hawks tell you, argues Bruce Schneier, they can't protect you and their cures are worse than the disease.
Matthew Harwood
Aug 31, 2015
Prohibition's Killing Fields
Prohibition's Killing Fields
Journalist Johann Hari disabuses you of everything you know about drugs and the misguided and tragic war against them.
Matthew Harwood
Jun 30, 2015
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Global Thug State
Global Thug State
The national security state, Tom Engelhardt argues, is being run by people who believe they should have ungodly powers to rule the world.
Matthew Harwood
Mar 31, 2015
Broken
Broken
Ann Jones' "They Were Soldiers" is the 21st-century equivalent of Dalton Trumbo's horrifying antiwar novel, "Johnny Got His Gun."
Matthew Harwood
Apr 30, 2014
How the Castle Crumbled
How the Castle Crumbled
Radley Balko provides an extraordinary look into how law enforcement agencies became more like a standing army than a peace force.
Matthew Harwood
Jan 31, 2014
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