Paula Broadwell, Whistleblower
In Men in Black Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith make use of a device that erases memory as they...
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Author: Fred Gardner
Jason and the Jays
When Rosie lived on a farm in Oregon And Jason was 8, Evan was 14, and Kate was 6 There was an old, unloaded .22 rifle in the front closet That somebody might have fired at a rabid skunk crawling out from under a barn long ago....
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Cannabis and Combat
The photo was inked so dark in the print edition it was easy to miss the slogan emblazoned on a...
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Organizing Amazon —It’s an Inside Job
The front-page headline was no April Fool’s Day prank: “Amazon Workers on Staten...
Read More‘Prolonged Grief’ is now an Illness
The American Psychiatric Association has added “Prolonged Grief Disorder” to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder —a list of conditions for which insurance companies reimburse doctors. To break...
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Forever Fluoxetine
Muckraking is an exercise in futility. The exposés get published, the authors may or may not get...
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Sorking the Ricardos
Yes, Aaron Sorkin’s “Trial of the Chicago Seven” was a falsification of...
Read MoreSorkin’s Boffo Misdirection Play
By Fred Gardner December 26, 2014 Two big stories had just broken: “Senate Exposes CIA Torture” and “Sony Chiefs’ Racist Emails Revealed.” Immediately —and in concert— the National Security Apparatus denied the torture charge...
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