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Rough seas over here
Featuring no hot takes on you know what
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Luke O'Neil
Asylum a la carte
Border Patrol agents were recently reminded they can exempt Ukrainian asylum seekers from expulsions at the border. Mexican and Central Americans…
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BORDER/LINES
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You Can Go Home Again
This week's theme: coming back.
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Jack Mirkinson
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War machinery and beatdown journalism
Every story about a weapon describes a sufficiently advanced rock turning people into past tense
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Kelsey D. Atherton
Pennsylvania Man Arrested For Torture Official CIA Channels
The Justice Department really had the nerve to boast about indicting its second U.S. citizen under the 1994 federal torture statute. Plus: the latest…
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Spencer Ackerman
Like they're talking about the weather
In reality, the economy is a social construct
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Luke O'Neil
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Scampering Robots, Are You The Destroyer?
The robotic hounds of the uncanny valley of the death undergo trials in El Paso.
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Kelsey D. Atherton
I’m just on edge all the time
Hello everyone, Eoin Higgins here from The Flashpoint.
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Eoin Higgins
Havana (Syndrome) Affair
The CIA has now acknowledged that almost every declared case of "Havana Syndrome" has a natural, not science fiction, origin. Why did anybody ever think…
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Derek Davison
Who deserves to die?
It's much easier to demonize criminals than to examine inequality.
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Libby Watson
"It's Just Sort Of Taken As A Given That This Is The Way Things Are"
New year, same politics
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Eoin Higgins
Our Year of Discontents
What this little community of journalists and readers means to me.
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Jack Crosbie
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