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The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man

Target in sight: 'Our expectation was that if he was there, he would go down fighting,' said Barack Obama. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features Viewed backwards, from Osama bin Laden's hideout to the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5505 words)

Could FTTN replace the NBN?

Discussion of FTTN (Fibre-to-the-Node) isn't a new element in the NBN debate. However, now that the Federal Opposition is taking a more active approach to offering alternative NBN architectures - and…
PUBLISHED: July 26, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1877 words)

The Second Term

In November, 1984, President Ronald Reagan was reëlected in a landslide victory over Walter Mondale, taking forty-nine states and fifty-nine per cent of the popular vote. The Reagan revolution was…
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: June 18, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (999 words)

» The History of the Gyaru – Part One:

A four-part series on the famed Japanese female subculture and its the evolution from a summery look of rich delinquent high-schoolers to an extreme set of working class styles Introduction The…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2940 words)

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

"Don't take anything that happens to you there personally," the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (251 words)

Twitter's early-bird special on censorship

Photo: Sabeth Last week, Twitter announced plans to censor tweets in specific countries, but only to local readers. At the same time, it committed itself to publishing each act of censorship at the…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1719 words)

Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas

October 26, 2011 8:00 AM ET …
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1089 words)

The Journalist and the Spies

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PUBLISHED: Sept. 19, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (948 words)

Why Political Coverage is Broken

My keynote address at New News 2011, part of the Melbourne Writers Festival, co-sponsored by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation at Swinburne University of Technology. (Melbourne, Australia,…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3237 words)
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