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Identity - [Revised entry by Harold Noonan and Ben Curtis on October 2, 2026. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Much of the debate about identity in recent decades...
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Marginal Revolution

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Is the World Getting Uglier? - The modern right has a theory of beauty. Does the left?
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National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers

The Anatomy and Evolution of Survey Error -- by Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag, Derek Wu, Anthony Tatarka, Patrick Langetieg - Surveys provide much of what we know in social science and are often the only source of information on private behaviors, attitudes and expectations. Stran...
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Official Gmail Blog

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This Modern World

Mamdani election night party - Brooklyn Paramount Theater, 11/4/25. Click to embiggen. Photos © 2025 Daniel Perkins
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Brain - current issue

A foothold in detection of limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy - The field of neurodegenerative disease is transforming. Disease definitions and classifications are increasingly being based on biology rather than clinica...
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‘The start of a long fight’: 3 writers on Texas’s political showdown - Three Post Opinions writers discuss the move from Texas House Democrats to block redistricting.
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washingtonpost.com - Editorials

Four Israeli hostages are finally free. Now for peace talks to break through. - Israel’s rescue of four hostages is good news, but Gaza’s suffering can’t ease without a truce.
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The Levy Economic Institute of Bard College News Wire

Has the Time Arrived for a Job Guarantee in Europe? - In comparison to the policy responses in the aftermath of the 2008-9 global financial crisis, the reactions of EU policymakers to the combined shocks of th...
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall

Listen to This: The Race To Ban Abortion - A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate and guest host Nicole Lafond discuss the...
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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

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Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The American Prospect Articles

Five Key Takeaways From Israel’s Indecisive Election Rerun - Heidi Levine/Sipa/Pool via AP Benjamin Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, September 17, 2019 Anyone expecting clarity from Israel’s electoral re...
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Google Operating System

Google Image Search Starts Playing YouTube Videos - Google Image Search's mobile interface tests a new feature that starts playing snippets from a YouTube video at the top of the search results page. It's no...
9 years ago
MotherJones.com | MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary

President Obama Just Surprised Joe Biden With the Presidential Medal of Freedom - President Obama just awarded Vice-President Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Though he knew Obama was going to honor him, Biden apparently didn't...
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KLEW - News - Local & Regional

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WiredRights

A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working - [image: A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working] The non-profit certificate authority Let's Encrypt is enabling a sea change toward HTTPS enc...
10 years ago
Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media

AI's not AI - There has been a lot of commentary recently on issues relating to an experimental chat bot that Microsoft has (or had) launched named (after, perhaps, a ri...
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Blogger in Draft

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WSJ.com: Real Time Economics

5 Things to Watch on the Economic Calendar - The minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting highlight the week.
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Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week

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edilee

Whys and Hows of Suggested Tiles - As Darren discussed on Monday’s project call [wiki.mozilla.org], Suggested Tiles has been on track to go live to a larger audience next week for wider beta...
11 years ago
MarketWatchComment

Lawrence G. McMillan: Breadth divergence is a troubling sign for the stock market - Stock-market indicators are turning bearish — and most worrisome among this group is breadth.
12 years ago
Salon: Glenn Greenwald

Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. - Months after the first insinuations that he risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever
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GoogleReaderBlog

A final farewell - Thank you for stopping by. Today, we powered down Google Reader. We understand you may not agree with this decision, but we hope you'll come to love thes...
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Google Blogoscoped

The Emperor's Garden - The Emperor instructed the gardener to set up the new court's garden. "I want you to plant five trees growing the Crataan fruit," the Emperor said, "Becaus...
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Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version) - On Turning Poverty into an American Crime By Barbara Ehrenreich I completed the manuscript for Nickel and Dimed in a time of seemingly boundless prosperity...
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BusinessWeek

Can the Angry Birds Keep Flying? - Rovio Mobile Oy has to convince investors it has staying power, as it rolls out new games and a movie
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Froomkin

Obama the Sphinx - President Obama officially launched his push for peace in the Middle East yesterday, sending his new envoy George Mitchell to the region and declaring his ...
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Language Log

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Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald

Moved to Salon - This blog has moved to Salon. It is now located here (non-subscribers can view the blog for free by clicking through the ad for a Day Pass). The blog can a...
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