February 2012
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Monday Evening Roundup
5 must-read pieces from the last few weeks of Read This, Not That:
1. Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man? The indifference of the Texas justice system to the execution of a likely innocent man. It’s worth noting that this is the article that actually led us to create RTNT.
2. Is Iran a Real Threat? A look, past the hype, at whether Iran is actually weaponizing and, if so, whether we should...
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Watch This, Not That: Why We’ll Never Agree On Anything
This is a bit of a departure for us, but I think many will enjoy this lengthy video interview from Bill Moyers’ new program Moyers and Company. He speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the psychological underpinnings of our contentious political atmosphere, why we can’t trust our own opinions, and how new media technologies...
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January 2012
36 posts
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Monday Evening Roundup
5 must-read pieces from the last week of Read This, Not That:
1. Imprisoning America On the epidemic of incarceration in the United States.
2. The Human Cost of the iPad An investigation of the often brutal and dangerous working conditions in the factories where some of America’s iconic gadgetry is manufactured.
3. The Making of a Post-Post-Partisan Presidency Is it even possible to reach...
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Monday Evening Roundup
5 must-read pieces from the last week of Read This, Not That:
1. Forget About It On the increasing impact that social networking has on our “real-world” lives.
2. Gingrich Attacks the So-Called “Liberal” Media—But What Liberal Media? Exploring the frequent conservative critique that the mainstream media is “liberal.”
3. Google’s History of Censorship It wasn’t that long ago that Google,...
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Monday Evening Roundup
5 must-read pieces from the last week of Read This, Not That:
1. Made in America On the state of manufacturing in the United States.
2. How Al Gore Came To Invent The Internet How a collection of misquotes and errors were fashioned into a narrative of Al Gore as a serial exaggerator.
3. Sri Lanka’s Brutal Victory Over the Tamil Tigers The final years of the Tamil Tiger’s violent battle for...
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