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On Twitter, Cher is a digital oracle. Here are some of her best tweets.
Legalization advocates say there’s a loophole.
It’s based on Byron’s “Sennacherib”
The report examines the CIA’s use of torture during the Bush administration: what specifically happened, and what the results were.
A pretty thorough demolition of an op-ed by former CIA directors defending the Agency’s torture regime tell us a lot about the Senate torture report’s value.
Some of the hacked emails reflected the often absurd way Sony executives chat with each other.
A Human Rights Watch event was interrupted by egg-wielding supporters of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov
“We want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy.”
“I have dreams,” Beyoncé says, “and I feel like I have the power to actually make those dreams become a reality.”
Governments around the world are growing increasingly worried about the threat of superbugs.
The Geminid meteor shower is worth staying up for.
Compelling, informative books about economics, politics, health, and more
This is why we can’t have nice things.
It makes logical sense that a higher minimum wage would hurt job creation. So why are economists split on this question?
Life is expensive on the coasts. More expensive than it has to be.