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Your World This Week, Volume VII

President Obama Issues Strongest Clean Power Plan Ever By An American President Healthcare? Check. Marriage Equality? Check. Cutting carbon pollution? Check. Now that the end is in sight, it seems that President Obama is finally becoming the man that so many voted for in 2008. Just this week, Barack Obama...

By John Kuroski • Aug 3, 2015

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Your World This Week, Volume VII

President Obama Issues Strongest Clean Power Plan Ever By An American President Healthcare? Check. Marriage Equality? Check. Cutting carbon pollution? Check. Now that the end is in sight, it seems that President Obama is finally becoming the man that so many voted for in 2008. Just this week, Barack Obama...

By John Kuroski • August 3, 2015

Your World This Week, Volume V

Russian Mogul Invests $100 Million In Quest For Intelligent Alien Life While X-Files’ return marks renewed pop culture interest in the extraterrestrial, one Russian billionaire has just embarked on a quest to discover real-life ETs. This past weekend, Yuri Milner–a Russian billionaire who acquired his fame and substantial bank account...

By John Kuroski • Jul 20, 2015

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Your World This Week, Volume V

Russian Mogul Invests $100 Million In Quest For Intelligent Alien Life While X-Files’ return marks renewed pop culture interest in the extraterrestrial, one Russian billionaire has just embarked on a quest to discover real-life ETs. This past weekend, Yuri Milner–a Russian billionaire who acquired his fame and substantial bank account...

By John Kuroski • July 20, 2015

Inside Mount Kumgang Resort, North Korea’s Largely Abandoned Resort

Although chandeliers still drip from the ceilings, once North Korea banned South Korean tourism, the famed Mount Kumgang Resort became a ghost town.

By Kiri Picone • Jul 6, 2015

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Inside Mount Kumgang Resort, North Korea’s Largely Abandoned Resort

Although chandeliers still drip from the ceilings, once North Korea banned South Korean tourism, the famed Mount Kumgang Resort became a ghost town.

By Kiri Picone • July 6, 2015

Meet The Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS

Long pursuing a state of their own, Kurdish women are fighting back ISIS and gaining many fans in the West.

By All That's Interesting • Jun 11, 2015

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Meet The Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS

Long pursuing a state of their own, Kurdish women are fighting back ISIS and gaining many fans in the West.

By All That's Interesting • June 11, 2015

God’s Country: Life Under ISIS

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a walking reductio ad absurdum of Immanuel Kant’s Enlightenment treatise Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In that book, Kant argues that mankind is inherently drawn to evil deeds, and that this “radical evil,” as he calls it, inevitably corrupts every...

By Richard Stockton • May 24, 2015

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God’s Country: Life Under ISIS

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a walking reductio ad absurdum of Immanuel Kant’s Enlightenment treatise Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In that book, Kant argues that mankind is inherently drawn to evil deeds, and that this “radical evil,” as he calls it, inevitably corrupts every...

By Richard Stockton • May 24, 2015

Smear Tactics: The Dirtiest Tricks In American Politics

Get ready for the mud-slinging: the 2016 presidential hopefuls have taken out their magnifying glass and tweezers, looking for any opportunity to pick away at their opponents’ policy mistakes and, arguably more important, character. There’s a euphemism for it: “opposition research”. Ted Cruz has already moved in on the attack...

By Chris Altman • Apr 26, 2015

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Smear Tactics: The Dirtiest Tricks In American Politics

Get ready for the mud-slinging: the 2016 presidential hopefuls have taken out their magnifying glass and tweezers, looking for any opportunity to pick away at their opponents’ policy mistakes and, arguably more important, character. There’s a euphemism for it: “opposition research”. Ted Cruz has already moved in on the attack...

By Chris Altman • April 26, 2015

What Happened to “Occupy Wall Street”?

We’re coming up on the third anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge March that catapulted the Occupy movement into international recognition. At first, OWS was the brainchild of a Canadian anti-advertising, anti-consumerist magazine called AdBusters. Many catalysts were at play: just months prior, WikiLeaks released numerous sensitive documents and video footage regarding...

By Chris Altman • Oct 15, 2014

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What Happened to “Occupy Wall Street”?

We’re coming up on the third anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge March that catapulted the Occupy movement into international recognition. At first, OWS was the brainchild of a Canadian anti-advertising, anti-consumerist magazine called AdBusters. Many catalysts were at play: just months prior, WikiLeaks released numerous sensitive documents and video footage regarding...

By Chris Altman • October 15, 2014