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ClJECLARATIONS
In Mayhem We Trust
C l-I RIS LE H MANN
The Blue and the Gray Zone
RICIIARD KREITNER
Captive Audiences
SIIAWN HAMILTO N
Live Nice (or Else)
LINDSEY GILBERT
From the archive: Death Travels West, Watch Him Go
MIKE EW I RTH
The Bourne Identity
A DREW J. BACEV I C II
Mission Creeps
MARK DANCE Y
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The Bully's Pulpit On the elementary structure of domination
DAVID GRAEBER
Cable News Charnel Mayhem as a guide for living
ALEX PAREENE
Have Guns, Will Liberate Inside the civic theology of arms-bearing
CHASE MADAR
Apocalypse Soon
Y es, your gadgets are ineluctably engineering your doom
H EATHER HAVRILE SKY
Town Hall on Terror
NOAM CHOMSKY
AND KADE CROCKFORD
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To Bear Arms
MARK PETERSON
'J'HE ClJOLLAR ClJEBAUCH
Having Their Cake and Eating Ours Too
Cl-IRI S LEHMANN
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There Goes the Neighborhood lOO The Obama library lands on Chicago
RI C K P ERLSTEIN
J'IFTH CoLUMN
Now Streaming: The Plague Years
A. S . HAMRAH
Weed, Whitewashed
NIELA 0RR
Cyborg Soothsayers of the High-Tech Hogwash Emporia In Amsterdam with the Singularity
COREY PE I N
More Titillated Than Thou How the Amish conquered the evangelical romance market
ANN TE MANN
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