–Reviewed by Lee Linderman
For decades, acclaimed writer Chris Hedges has worked as a journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in Middle East and American politics and wartime societies. He spent 15 years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, including working with a team of reporters in 2002 that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of global terrorism…
Americans don’t know what to make of Mexico, in part because they only tend to hear fragmentary snippets of their neighbor’s national odyssey: economic development amidst persistent poverty: drugs and people flowing across the porous border; beckoning beaches; a proud heritage; yummy food and evermore drug violence…
by Elizabeth Peterson
How many you can grab, really,
that’s sort of the cut-off point.
Point of entry, incision, past the break
of calcium fortified in a kidney…
Surfing the Internet has become a highly personalized experience, with sites like Facebook and Google tailoring what you see based on troves of data they’ve collected about you. Eli Pariser, the former CEO of MoveOn.org, argues that personalization creates a “filter bubble” that isolates us from each other and “distorts our perception of what’s important, true, and real.” …
by Darien Shanske
Battles with online retailers, particularly Amazon.com, are raging from New York to North Carolina, Oklahoma to Colorado and Texas to, now, California. This is good news for lawyers but no one else. How has it come to this? How have so many states ended up in costly confrontations with popular retailers? …
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