When Ernesto Cortes, Jr., co-chair of the Industrial Areas Foundation, preaches about democracy in the U.S., he talks about the deterioration of our mediating institutions. We used to depend on our schools, our churches, our political parties, and our unions to mediate between the individual and the marketplace, the individual and the state. “The […]

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  Editor’s Note: In April 2015, The Washington Spectator published investigative reporter Barbara Koeppel’s account of a cover-up in which Defense Department (DOD) officials refused to admit that veterans of the 1991 Gulf War were exposed to sarin gas when they blew up Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons bunkers at Khamisiyah. Koeppel reported that despite veterans’ […]

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  In the 1990s, retail-chain magnate John W. Pope complained that the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus had been taken over by radical professors. At the time, Pope was a member of the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and one of the wealthiest men in the South. He also considered himself a […]

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  P lay Grounds depicts Montrose, Pennsylvania, a rural community on the front lines of the natural gas revolution, and the local residents who have been transformed by the industry. In Montrose, numerous household water supplies have been contaminated, traditional farmers are concerned for the safety of their products, and families have begun to invest […]

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  As Republican presidential hopefuls race to embrace the “religious freedom” of businesses to refuse to serve the LGBT community, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the ideological history behind the laws that focused the nation’s attention on Indiana and Arkansas, and, of course, the glibly homophobic management of Memories Pizza. Faith-based attempts to […]

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