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23 October 2015
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics winner, Angus Deaton, explained
Matthew Yglesias
Bonus: Read 2015 Nobel Economics Prize winner Angus Deaton's amazing take on inequality (via Libby Nelson)
20 October 2015
Yes, the CIA Director Was Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-Up
John McCone was long suspected of withholding information from the Warren Commission. Now even the CIA says he did.
Philip Shenon
Philip Shenon
16 October 2015
Slavery Myths Debunked
The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.
Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion
Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion
14 October 2015
13 October 2015
12 October 2015
09 October 2015
A drug company raised a pill's price 5,500 percent because, in America, it can
When drug companies set their American prices, they don't focus on the price of making the pills. Instead, they look at what their competitors already charge for similar products — and try to land their price somewhere in that same range, regardless of production costs or how good the drug actually is. Since most drugs are already expensive, new drugs keep matching those prices.
Sarah Kliff
Sarah Kliff
08 October 2015
07 October 2015
Ben Carson’s anti-Muslim comments are at odds with traditional American principles
But if you're part of the group whose beliefs, traditions, and ideas were for so long taken as the default under which everyone had to live, that inclusiveness feels like a loss of privilege, which can easily be turned into the feeling that you're under attack.
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Your devotion to ideas like liberty is tested when you have to apply them not just to yourself and people you think are like you, but to everyone — when you have to ask whether you believe in freedom of speech enough to allow books you disagree with, or whether you believe in freedom of religion enough to give all the same rights you have to people whose religious beliefs are different from yours.