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A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? Patrick Radden Keefe reports on the investigation.

Conservatism and libertarianism are incompatible because they aim at fundamentally divergent political ends.

The limitations of preparedness.

David McCormick loses to Dr. Oz as the donor class’s post-Trump pivot fails.

As American gun culture moves from defense to defiance, it puts our democracy at risk.

Too often the case against common-sense gun reforms rests on outdated claims and mistaken arguments.

What a viral fake news story about "race-based grading" tells us about our media ecosystem

Plus: Durham face-plants

Kanakuk Kamps leaders say they acted swiftly after learning Pete Newman abused campers. Survivors and ex-employees say the camp didn't do enough. Springfield News-Leader, Springfield News-Leader

21 dead in Texas, and no hope in sight

This is not going to be a helpful post, a healthy post, a post of solutions and fixes, a post that makes sense of anything, that catalyzes what we’re all going through, that attempts to be op…

We are all fair game to be sacrificed.

Plus: Our gun debate doom loop.

On Tuesday, after a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers in a Texas elementary school, Sen. Chris Murphy stood on the Senate floor and implored his colleagues to stop mass shootings. “I’m here on this floor to beg,” said Murphy, pressing his palms together in prayerful supplication. “To literally get down on my hands […]

I tried to step away from WordPress once. In 2019 I moved this site to Hugo. I was looking for a simpler workflow and more performant site but, while I found the latter, maintaining it was anything but simple and I wound up back on WordPress just a year later. Today I find myself generally content w...

Thousands of photos from a data hack of police files, reveal the human cost of China's Uyghur detention system.