Mentions — July 16, 2014, 7:00 pm
“The End of Retirement” on MSNBC
Watch Jessica Bruder on MSNBC’s The Cycle
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Mentions — July 16, 2014, 7:00 pm
Watch Jessica Bruder on MSNBC’s The Cycle
Heart of Empire, Mentions — June 20, 2014, 11:41 am
Andrew Cockburn discusses the origins and possible fate of Nouri al-Maliki’s prime ministership
Mentions — May 21, 2014, 6:15 pm
Scott Horton discusses a document omitted from a report on three deaths at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in 2006
Mentions — September 6, 2013, 5:03 pm
“J. D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit,” (October 1962) makes an appearance in a new documentary
Mentions — April 29, 2013, 7:06 pm
A recent New York Times Magazine feature recalls Barbara Ehrenreich’s November 2001 story, “Welcome to Cancerland”
Mentions — April 7, 2013, 8:07 pm
An exchange on the fine points of gun safety, the kinds of gun-control laws America should pass, and the need for a moderate counterpart to the National Rifle Association
Portion of money spent by Donald Trump’s reelection committee this year that has gone toward legal fees:
Male financial traders make more money when their testosterone levels are high.
Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump meet at a former POW site, Jeff Sessions denies asylum to victims of domestic abuse and gang violence, and the National Sheriff Association announces a new initiative to protect pets.
"Gun owners have long been the hypochondriacs of American politics. Over the past twenty years, the gun-rights movement has won just about every battle it has fought; states have passed at least a hundred laws loosening gun restrictions since President Obama took office. Yet the National Rifle Association has continued to insist that government confiscation of privately owned firearms is nigh. The NRA’s alarmism helped maintain an active membership, but the strategy was risky: sooner or later, gun guys might have realized that they’d been had. Then came the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, followed swiftly by the nightmare the NRA had been promising for decades: a dedicated push at every level of government for new gun laws. The gun-rights movement was now that most insufferable of species: a hypochondriac taken suddenly, seriously ill."
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