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What’s Missing From the TikTok Debate
Apr 8, 2024 The problem isn’t Chinese ownership. It’s U.S. control of the digital economy and the need for community-run social networks.
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Apr 2, 2024 Lend your support to independent journalism.
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Building Better Killing Machines — With Ecstasy!
Mar 21, 2024 Rick Doblin, the pioneer of MDMA therapy, advocates for dosing soldiers upon enlistment.
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When ‘More Police Training’ Goes Wrong
Mar 18, 2024 Why did New Jersey pay a racist ex-cop $75,000 to “educate” its officers on traffic stops?
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Julian Assange’s High Stakes Appeal Begins
Feb 19, 2024 The Wikileaks founder may be near the end of his long battle to avoid U.S. extradition.
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Preparing to Meet Your Maker, Plus Cake: The Life of a Death Cafe
Jan 25, 2024 Can the “death positive” movement help fix our dysfunctional relationship with the inevitability of human demise?2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: First Place, Visual Arts/Architecture/Literature Feature, Online & 2025 Southern California Journalism Award: Third Place, Lifestyle Feature
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Corporadelic: MAPS For-Profit Arm Raises $100 Million
Jan 11, 2024 The pioneering psychedelics advocacy group has traded its “public benefit model” for one closer to traditional pharma.
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The Two-Degree Future Is Now
Jan 2, 2024 In 2023, a number of climate records fell across a planet careening toward social and ecological chaos.
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From U.S. Politics to Global Voices: Truthdig’s 2023 Highlights
Dec 27, 2023 Selections from a year of long-form investigations, global dispatches, political analyses, commentaries, essays, film reviews and more.
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Trimming With the Devil in Green Bay
Dec 19, 2023 Who knew the National Railroad Museum was a courageous bastion of free speech?
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