Barrett Brown | I Do Not Care to Finish Reading This Mediocre Kissinger Biography by Niall Ferguson
Barrett Brown, The Intercept
Brown writes: "I'd made it 375 pages into Niall Ferguson's newish first volume of a planned two-volume life of Henry Kissinger before receiving in the mail a copy of Greg Grandin's review of same, in which the author of last year's excellent Kissinger's Shadow sums up Ferguson's tome as follows: 'The irony is that it has been Kissinger's sharpest critics who have most appreciated his acute sense of self, who have treated him, however disapprovingly, as a fully dimensional individual with a churning, complex psyche.'"
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Barrett Brown, The Intercept
Brown writes: "I'd made it 375 pages into Niall Ferguson's newish first volume of a planned two-volume life of Henry Kissinger before receiving in the mail a copy of Greg Grandin's review of same, in which the author of last year's excellent Kissinger's Shadow sums up Ferguson's tome as follows: 'The irony is that it has been Kissinger's sharpest critics who have most appreciated his acute sense of self, who have treated him, however disapprovingly, as a fully dimensional individual with a churning, complex psyche.'"
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A Narrow Escape for Public-Sector Unions
Matt Ford, The Atlantic
Ford writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 in Friedrichs v. CTA on Tuesday, thwarting a legal challenge that labor activists feared would deal a crippling blow to public-sector unions throughout the country."
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Matt Ford, The Atlantic
Ford writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 in Friedrichs v. CTA on Tuesday, thwarting a legal challenge that labor activists feared would deal a crippling blow to public-sector unions throughout the country."
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Tom Engelhardt | Entering Uncharted Territory in Washington
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "You can be sure of one thing: never in the history of television, or any other form of media, has a single figure garnered the amount of attention - hour after hour, day after day, week after week - as Donald Trump. If he's the O.J. Simpson of twenty-first-century American politics and his run for the presidency is the eternal white Ford Bronco chase of our moment, then we're in a truly strange world."
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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Engelhardt writes: "You can be sure of one thing: never in the history of television, or any other form of media, has a single figure garnered the amount of attention - hour after hour, day after day, week after week - as Donald Trump. If he's the O.J. Simpson of twenty-first-century American politics and his run for the presidency is the eternal white Ford Bronco chase of our moment, then we're in a truly strange world."
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Donald Trump's Campaign Manager Was Just Arrested and Charged With Battery
David A. Fahrenthold and Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The campaign manager for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was charged Tuesday in Florida with battery for allegedly grabbing and yanking the arm of a Breitbart News reporter who had been trying to ask Trump a question."
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David A. Fahrenthold and Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "The campaign manager for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was charged Tuesday in Florida with battery for allegedly grabbing and yanking the arm of a Breitbart News reporter who had been trying to ask Trump a question."
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Trial and Error: Report Says Prosecutors Rarely Pay Price for Mistakes and Misconduct
Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica
Sapien writes: "The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct that land innocent people in prison."
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Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica
Sapien writes: "The Innocence Project released a report Tuesday alleging that prosecutors across the country are almost never punished when they withhold evidence or commit other forms of misconduct that land innocent people in prison."
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The Case Against Bombing ISIS
Greg Shupak, Jacobin
Shupak writes: "When ISIS claimed responsibility for the horrendous attacks in Brussels last week, President Obama was unequivocal: the US and its allies, he said, 'can and will defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world.' More bombing, it hardly needed to be said, was on the way. For their part, the presidential candidates only disagree on the scale of military action needed to stamp out ISIS - not on the appropriateness of yet more American warfare."
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Greg Shupak, Jacobin
Shupak writes: "When ISIS claimed responsibility for the horrendous attacks in Brussels last week, President Obama was unequivocal: the US and its allies, he said, 'can and will defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world.' More bombing, it hardly needed to be said, was on the way. For their part, the presidential candidates only disagree on the scale of military action needed to stamp out ISIS - not on the appropriateness of yet more American warfare."
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Leonardo DiCaprio: We Must Save the Last Place on Earth Where Orangutans, Tigers, Rhinos and Elephants Coexist
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Leonardo DiCaprio is using his clout to protect the struggling Leuser Ecosystem, a precious rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia that's under threat from industrial development for palm oil."
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Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chow writes: "Leonardo DiCaprio is using his clout to protect the struggling Leuser Ecosystem, a precious rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia that's under threat from industrial development for palm oil."
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