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The Highly Effective Idiot

22 May 2013, 6:50 pm by: Philip Preville
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It’s been a full five days since the world learned of a video allegedly showing Toronto’s mayor, Rob Ford, smoking crack cocaine, and Ford has yet to answer a single question about the allegation. On Wednesday, Ford’s older brother, Toronto councilor…
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22 May 2013, 6:50 pm
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Culinary Racism

22 May 2013, 6:15 pm by: Jesse Bering
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Pro golfer Sergio Garcia has now apologized twice for saying, at a European Tour players’ dinner in London, that he would serve Tiger Woods fried chicken for dinner during next month’s U.S. Open. In 1997, Fuzzy Zoeller made a similar comment about Woods,…
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Don’t Pray for Oklahoma

22 May 2013, 5:44 pm by: Mark Joseph Stern
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Yesterday, while trekking through the rubble from Monday’s horrific tornado in Moore, Okla., CNN’s Wolf Blitzer stopped to interview a survivor holding her young child in her arms.
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Obama’s 301 Drone Strikes

22 May 2013, 5:30 pm by: Chris Kirk
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Update, May 22, 2013: The Obama administration formally acknowledged on Wednesday that U.S. drones strikes in Pakistan and Yemen have killed four Americans. The disclosure appeared in a letter to members of Congress that was obtained by the New York Times.…
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22 May 2013, 5:27 pm
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Stop Aid to Africa Now

22 May 2013, 5:27 pm
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When President Obama visits Africa in late June, one of the main agenda items will be how the U.S. can help foster economic growth in the sub-Sahara. He may want to grab a copy of Dambisa Moyo’s book Dead Aid before he goes. A Zambian-born, Oxford-educated…
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Game of Thrones, Season 3

22 May 2013, 5:24 pm by: Rachael Larimore
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This season’s lack of a single dominant character—as we had with Ned in Season 1 and Tyrion last year—has left room for some of the lesser characters to command our attention, and we’re all luckier for it. Brienne of Tarth. Sam and Gilly. And, though…
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The Beauty of Bounded Gaps

22 May 2013, 4:44 pm by: Jordan Ellenberg
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Last week, Yitang “Tom” Zhang, a popular math professor at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the world of pure mathematics when he announced that he had proven the “bounded gaps” conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers—a crucial…
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For the People, by the People

22 May 2013, 2:17 pm by: Amy Crawford
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We tend to ignore local government until something goes wrong—municipal bankruptcy, perhaps, or unplowed streets after a mishandled blizzard. Turnout in local elections is notoriously low, and attendance at city-council and school-board meetings is usually…
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“A Peculiar Moaning Sound”

22 May 2013, 2:03 pm by: Brian Palmer
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Many survivors of the recent Oklahoma tornado compared the sound of the twister to that of a train. Before the advent of railroads, how did people describe the sound of a tornado?
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You Do Not Have Asperger’s

22 May 2013, 2:00 pm by: Amy S.F. Lutz
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The autism community is a fractious bunch. We argue over the causes of autism, the best treatments, or even if it should be treated at all. But we do share a common anxiety: the DSM-5. This latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…
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