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A view from abroad
Charleston massacre: The latest American mass killing
The regularity of mass killings breeds familiarity. [....] Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard them the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is ( Read more... ) -
Political Violence and the American Left
An ex-Weather Underground radical on the Tucson shootings and political violence
....the Weather Underground believed in the absolute necessity of bombs to address actual moral grievances such as the Vietnam War and racism....
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The Common Thread
From Time for industry to end its war on regulation
The biggest oil spill ever. The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. The deadliest mine disaster in 25 years. One recall after another of toys from China, of vehicles from Toyota, of hamburgers from roach-infested processing plants. The whole Vioxx fiasco. And let's not forget the ( Read more... ) -
The fear of all sums
Subprime borrowing and innumeracy
....those who fell behind on their mortgages were noticeably less numerate than those who kept up with their payments in the same overall circumstances. The least numerate fell behind about 25% of the time. For those who did best on the test, the number of payments they missed was almost 12%. A fifth of the least ( Read more... )