Is This Sculpture Unfit for a King?
Does it deserve to be called the $10 million “woke penis sculpture?”
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How Easy It Is to Destroy a Reputation
A Wikipedia hit job hits home.
Seeing 50 Percent of The Who
Quantifying the shrinking concert experience.
Swimmable Cities Are a Climate Solution
Amid scorching heat, cities around the world are rethinking access to waterways.
Trump is Destroying Fox News
Senator: Gorsuch is a Payoff to Big Business ; Boston Public Schools Adopt a New Map …and More Picks
The Ponzi-Pulitzer Scheme
Earlier in May, the New York Times ran an intriguing piece about William McMasters, the Boston publicist who had helped unmask the con artist Charles Ponzi, after whom the term “Ponzi scheme” is named. One noteworthy passage, near the end of the article, notes McMasters’s frustration at his dealings with the Boston Post, the paper […]
I Spy An Occupy: Obama’s DHS Surveils Legit Protesters
The Obama Administration is not being completely straight with us when it comes to the Occupy protests. A growing body of documentation suggests that the Department of Homeland Security is deeply involved in coordinating surveillance of protesters—and maybe more.
Worth Reading: Headline Grab Bag
Headlines—Greenwald explains how Ed Snowden got to him; the ugly truth about Dallas’s paper on 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination; establishment to fact-check establishment pundits; Patriot Act Author now hates his handiwork; new movie fiction on Boston bombing; permanent climate change mid-century; some blunt talk about failed drug policy
VideoWHO: Russ Baker Takes a Trip Behind the Headlines
WhoWhatWhy Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker takes a slightly unsettling—and occasionally amusing—trip behind the headlines during an April 24 talk in Seattle.
Homeland Security Still Dodging Questions on Terrorist “Hands Off” List
Sen. Chuck Grassley still has no answers to his questions about the existence of secret “hands off” list that lets some people with terrorist ties enter the U.S. And that’s even after Customs and Border Protection officials briefed his staff. WhoWhatWhy looks at the latest case of national security stonewalling.
RadioWho: Russ Baker Talks to Traces of Reality Radio about Todashev Killing
WhoWhatWhy’s Russ Baker joins Guillermo Jimenez of Traces of Reality Radio to analyze the killing of Ibragim Todashev by FBI Agent Aaron McFarlane and other strange elements of the official story about the Boston Marathon Bombing.
Carlyle Group’s Latest Acquisition: the JFK Library (!)
Some things you just can’t make up. The Carlyle Group is funding a facelift for the John F. Kennedy museum and archives. It’s just the kind of huge global company Kennedy did battle with before his assassination. Sadly, the irony has been lost on a lot of people.