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Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo For One Reason: You

Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist

It's News, Not Espionage

Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist
By Susan Zakin

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria
By Juan Cole

It’s News, Not Espionage
By Eugene Robinson

Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo For One Reason: You
By Robert Scheer

DOJ Allegedly Spied on Fox News Correspondent, the FBI Investigates Bachmann, and More

Gillibrand’s Student Loan Proposal Follows Warren’s Lead

College: A Lesson in Inequality

Obama Unscathed by Scandals, Mayor Denies Smoking Crack, and More

Will Yahoo ‘Ruin’ Tumblr?

Flaring Violence Kills 130 People in Iraq in Three Days

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

Video Allegedly Shows Police Beating David Silva to Death

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Motherhood Manifesto

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Tag: Kotler

Photos: Christopher Wray-McCann, illustrations: Miguel Valenzuela / L.A. Weekly

Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss wants to build the nation’s first brothel for female customers in the Nevada desert. To get the story, journalist (and Truthdig contributor) Steven Kotler had to survive roadside breakdowns, barren deserts, abandoned towns, a brothel war, and an assortment of cowboys, pimps and angry locals.

Posted on Jul 7, 2006 READ MORE

From Allen J. Schaben / LAT

Mystical States Explained, via Surfing

Want to know why near-death experiences frequently feature tunnels of white, euphoric light? The L.A. Times Book Review recommends picking up a copy of Truthdig contributor Steven Kotler’s new book “West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief” to find out.

Also: the Village Voice gives “West of Jesus” a rave.

Posted on Jun 14, 2006 READ MORE

Wave Rider

Truthdig contributor Steven Kotler describes in The New York Times Magazine how the mere act of going surfing pulled him out of a near-suicidal battle with Lyme disease and kick-started a quest to explore the nexus of surf, science and spirituality.