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Thoreau's Radicalism and the Fight Against the Fossil-Fuel Industry

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps? On a clear and seasonably cold Sunday morning in March, I made my way through the streets of an old neighborhood in Worcester, Massachusetts,…
PUBLISHED: May 7, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1378 words)

How Facebook Designs the 'Perfect Empty Vessel' for Your Mind

One day in March, I was sitting across from Facebook's design director, Kate Aronowitz, at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park when she told me, "It takes a lot of work to create the perfect empty vessel." In…
PUBLISHED: May 2, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2985 words)

Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms

At exactly 10:53 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, 2011, Joe and Mary Reneau were in the bedroom of their whitewashed and brick-trimmed home, a two-story rambler Mary's dad custom-built 43 years ago.…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2059 words)

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Am I a Torturer?

Photo: Sarah WilsonListen to an interview with the author here. The prisons in Iraq stink. Ask any guard or interrogator and they'll tell you it's a smell they'll never forget: sweat, fear, and rot.…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2065 words)

Your Longreads Guide to Guns

Saulius L/Shutterstock "I know this is not the first time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence," President Obama said in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. "But this time is…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 15, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1150 words)

Lost in the Middle East

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sultan Hassan Mosque, Cairo, June 4, 2009. Sameh Refaat/EPA/Corbis They hate what we see right here in this chamber—a…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4720 words)

The War on Drugs Is a War on Human Nature

Reuters/John Gress/Files  This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3000 words)

The End of Violent, Simplistic, Macho Masculinity

How some men are trying to reform male culture: by emphasizing compassion over aggression Men Can Stop Rape Boys aren't supposed to do a lot of things: show fear or pain, compassion or tenderness;…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2048 words)
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