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Samer Kalaf
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July 11, 2024
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Ray Ratto
July 9, 2024
Politics
Without Fact-Checking, A Presidential Debate Is Just TV
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
June 28, 2024
Margin Of Error
Debate Losers
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Tom Scocca
June 28, 2024
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Two Bad Neighbors
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David Roth
June 13, 2024
Margin Of Error
Garbage In, Garbage Out
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Tom Scocca
June 13, 2024
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Why Did I Sleep On The Turf?
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Heather Wei-Xi Chen
June 11, 2024
Media Meltdowns
Feds Accuse America’s Weirdest Media Company Of Being A Money-Laundering Front For The Falun Gong
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Patrick Redford
June 4, 2024
Margin Of Error
The Doubts Were Not Reasonable
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Tom Scocca
May 31, 2024
Defector Up All Night
Justice Delivered To Notable Yankees Fan
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Tom Ley
May 30, 2024
Mods Asleep
The Ghosts Of New Atheism Still Haunt Us
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Erik Baker
May 29, 2024
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Harrison Butker Overestimates His Range
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David Roth
May 17, 2024
Margin Of Error
Dress For The Job You Want
344
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Tom Scocca
May 17, 2024
NFL
Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker’s Inspirational Message To Graduating Catholics: Be Worse
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Samer Kalaf
May 14, 2024
Arts And Culture
The Myth Of An Apolitical Eurovision
110
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Sabrina Imbler
May 12, 2024
Politics
How A YouTuber Duped Indians Into The Russia-Ukraine War
91
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Puja Changoiwala
May 8, 2024
Margin Of Error
Going Off Script
214
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Tom Scocca
May 3, 2024
Interviews
A City College Student Journalist Shares What He Saw During The NYPD Crackdown
118
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Samer Kalaf
May 3, 2024
Politics
UCLA Chooses Violence Over Divestment
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Patrick Redford
May 1, 2024
Politics
The Outside Agitators On Campus Were The Police
355
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Samer Kalaf
May 1, 2024
Journalismism
They Are Insecure For A Reason
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David Roth
April 30, 2024
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The Crackdown Explains The Protest
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Samer Kalaf
April 26, 2024
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Portrait Of The Asshole As An Old Man
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Dave McKenna
April 25, 2024
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The Judgment Of Magneto
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Asher Elbein
April 24, 2024
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