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Free speech absolutism has always been a tactical position for the ACLU. As its co-founder put it, “ I champion civil liberty as the best of the non-violent means of building the power on which workers rule must be based. If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go…

Every now and then an occasional act of journalism occurs. Even amid the torrent of fake news propaganda about the migrant crisis (“see small children cowering in Trump’s cages”, “listen to the sound of the children Trump took away from their parents” and “This little girl is probably crying because of Trump”) , an occasional…

Lately it seems like 90% of pop culture is recycled. Broadway musicals, movies and TV series are just the recycled debris of a culture no longer capable of producing original material that appeals to wide audiences. That’s why A Bronx Tale is on Broadway, Lethal Weapon is a TV series and every other movie is…

The fake news machine never sleeps. This latest howler comes from Peter Coy, “ the economics editor for Bloomberg Businessweek”. Peter should probably have stuck to economics because he doesn’t seem to know anything about international affairs. Though he does know plenty about clickbait. That’s why he’s got a Bloomberg article titled, “The U.S. Would…

For a billionaire, Michael Bloomberg is really bad at spending his money. At least when it comes to politics. After buying the mayor’s office a few times, back in New York City, the creepy titan went back to his firm, where he made everyone’s life a living hell. He went big on his two pet…

Twitter rarely enforces its rules against the left (Peter Fonda’s Twitter account is still active despite threats of sexual violence on the service), but the recent rash of doxxing by Luke O’Brien, a Huffington Post writer against a Twitter user, by Splinter against Stephen Miller, and by another alt-left figure against ICE employees, forced it…

Post-election, the Democrats have insisted that the 2016 election was delegitimized by Russian hacking. Yet they were curiously disinterested in doing anything about it. Former President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity czar confirmed Wednesday that former national security adviser Susan Rice told him to “stand down” in response to Russian cyber attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign.…

Starbucks responded to a racial furor by hiring Eric Holder and bumping a Jewish group objected to by anti-Semitic black nationalists. But closing its coffee shops to give employees implicit bias training doesn’t seem to have dealt with the overpriced coffee place’s real problems. And they’re big. Starbucks isn’t getting the growth numbers it needed…