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For many years, the conventional wisdom was that only highly biased, less educated media consumers would put partisanship over truth—in other words, they would believe news that confirmed their worldview, regardless of whether it was true.

Kevin Carson The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand Corporate Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege 2001 Originally published as a pamphlet...

Among more than 100 metro areas, Seattle has the highest percentage of married people under 50 who have a dog or cat but no children, writes FYI Guy,

We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.

From 1957, this is a drawing of the synergistic strategy of Walt Disney Productions, or what Todd Zenger of Harvard Business Revie

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.

He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.

A law-enforcement movement that claims to answer only to the Constitution.

The origins of constitutional sheriff ideology lie in the two concepts of the county supremacy movement: The county – not the state or federal governments – should control all land within its borders, and the county sheriff should be the ultimate law enforcement authority in the U.S. These ideas were pioneered by Christian Identity minister William Potter Gale in the 1970s and described as “Posse Comitatus.”

NPR's Cheryl Thompson speaks with Maurice Chammah of the Marshall Project to talk about the growing "constitutional sheriff" movement and what its aims are.

The Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association has spread its ideology across the U.S., seeking to become more mainstream in part by securing state approval for taxpayer-funded law enforcement training.

“Constitutional sheriffs” contend that their authority goes beyond enforcing the law to determining what the law is.

There are hundreds of Constitutional Sheriffs around the country who believe they are the ultimate legal power in their county. We break down how they have coalesced with the election denial movement.

Ostrom’s 8 Rules of the Commons for Anarchists:  The commons are resources self-managed by communities who need and use them. Commons are managed through dialogue, deliberation, and collective…

A British journalistic trope involves the phrase “The pound in your pocket”, a derisory reference to the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s use of it to try to persuade the publ…

A company got access to a mobile phone-tracking tool used by law enforcement and U.S. government agencies across the country. They found significant privacy vulnerabilities.

Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a…

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

From brushmakers to glassblowers, and saddlers to weavers, we meet the people keeping traditional crafts alive in the UK

Society should withhold all esteem and attention to a nonfiction author whose entire oeuvre spitballs explanatory social theory under the bad faith idea that he holds his ideas “loosely” and readers should too The Washington Post: Malcolm Gladwell's new book rehashes "The Tipping Point" I wrote a review of Malcolm