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Satire — October 12, 2018, 2:12 pm
The Burden of Power
The mayor of Margaret’s Cove addresses the public slander against him
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Chance that a country to which the U.S. sells arms is cited by Amnesty International for torturing its citizens:
A newly discovered lemur (Avahi cleesei) was named after the comedian John Cleese.
Satire — October 12, 2018, 2:12 pm
The mayor of Margaret’s Cove addresses the public slander against him
Podcast — October 12, 2018, 2:10 pm
On Lacy M. Johnson’s The Reckonings, Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad, and Kristen M. Ghoddsee’s Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism; plus: an interview with the author of The Mars Room
Weekly Review — October 10, 2018, 11:45 am
Kavanaugh is confirmed; Earth’s governments are given 12 years to get climate change under control; Bansky trolls Sotheby’s
Publisher's Note — October 9, 2018, 11:53 am
“The ‘free trade’ policies championed by US leaders from Reagan to Obama, most definitely including the Clintons, have produced many victims.”
Art, Monday Gallery — October 8, 2018, 9:00 am
“Cherry Street near Pike Slip,” a photograph by John Chiara, whose work is on view this week at Yossi Milo Gallery, in New York City.
©John Chiara. Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City
Illustration by Stan Fellows
“Nowadays, most states let just about anybody who wants a concealed-handgun permit have one; in seventeen states, you don’t even have to be a resident. Nobody knows exactly how many Americans carry guns, because not all states release their numbers, and even if they did, not all permit holders carry all the time. But it’s safe to assume that as many as 6 million Americans are walking around with firearms under their clothes.”
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