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A Conversation With Robert Scheer: Larry Flynt Is With Hillary Clinton (Multimedia)

Apr 9, 2016
Love him or hate him, the Hustler publisher has never compromised his beliefs He shared them -- including why he wants the former secretary of state to be president -- during a visit to Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer's communications class at the University of Southern California He shared them—including why he wants the former secretary of state to be president—during a visit to Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer's communications class at the University of Southern California.

Reclaiming Conversation

Oct 23, 2015
We live in a world of incessant connection, and for all the communication it supposedly provides, it's destroying open-ended conversation. "We are being silenced by our technologies," Sherry Turkle writes in a new book.

How a Church in Alabama Used Hitler to Recruit Youth

Jun 5, 2014
Life Savers Ministries of Opelika misguidedly used a quote by the German dictator on a billboard; some claim the Internet is not destroying communication, but rather improving it; meanwhile, a study finds that losing sleep at night causes the brain to produce more of the Alzheimer's protein. These discoveries and more after the jump.