The Racket

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Some service journalism about some (potential) service journalism
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Why cable's king of hate and his allies are so angry about getting what they want
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Inside the chapter: ShanghaiListen now (69 min) | In which we talk about China’s transformation, a bad walking tour of China’s richest city, and a deleted scene
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Now that’s not fair, Katz, you may be saying, Biden wanted to mitigate the pandemic AND funnel tens of billions of dollars to the arms industry.
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Six people are about to take away the reproductive freedom of hundreds of millions of Americans — rights that have been often taken for granted, even as…
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Yesterday, the Biden White House asked Congress to fund a massive infusion of cash and weapons in Ukraine’s name. The headline number of the package …
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This week, two corners of Twitter got in a fight over sourcing and attribution in nonfiction. The debate was sparked by a Washington Post excerpt of Kim…
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Gangsters Movie Night 5: White ZombieIn this episode we go to Haiti via the 1932 horror cult classic White Zombie. Starring Bela Lugosi as “Murder Legendre" and set during the then-ongoing…
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If we're serious about prosecuting Russia's war crimes, we need to get serious about America's as well
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At the heart of the Biden administration's behemoth $813 billion defense budget request for FY2023 is an all-out nuclear spending spree. The main item…
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Inside the chapter: NicaraguaWe’re turning the tables this week, as Racket researcher Annie Malcolm interrogates me about the making of a chapter of Gangsters of Capitalism…
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Pacifism did not cause World War II. Avoiding it won't stop World War III.
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