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August 2015

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August 31st
- The repugnance of moral scolds
- Why the identities of Ashley Madison's clients are none of your business
- How McDonald's puts the squeeze on both franchise owners and workers
August 28th
- I hate scary movies. But I can't get enough of NBC's Hannibal.
- How Hurricane Katrina was like the Great Recession
- John Oliver is right: If you follow the 'prosperity gospel,' you're doing Christianity wrong
August 27th
- Here's a safe, dead simple way for the U.S. to play a useful role in Syria's civil war
- This is the sharpest debunking of pro-choice arguments I've read
- China's turmoil shows how the world is turning into a bizarro European Union
August 26th
- The real reason hawks hate the Iran nuclear deal
- Why the U.S. and Japanese militaries want to be BFFs
- Mr. Robot is the best show on television
August 25th
- The problem with 'boyfriend' jeans
- How the U.S. can take advantage of China's stock market crash
- Why are we denying that women used Ashley Madison?
- The stock market just blew up the last argument for the Fed to raise interest rates
August 24th
- To end police violence, we have to end poverty
- Don't panic: Why the Chinese economy will (probably) be just fine
- Let Amazon be Amazon
August 21st
- Amazon and the price of inventing the future
- Why North Korea's collapse is inevitable
- Why the oil industry is doomed
August 20th
- How sex work explains the economy
- How the heroin epidemic finally changed people's minds about drug abuse
- Why eliminating annual performance reviews will make your job worse
August 19th
- Why China will never be as rich as America
- Fear the Walking Dead: AMC's bold, gutsy step toward self-cannibalization
August 18th
- Why we still need school integration in 2015
August 17th
- Why the Internet of Things will be worse than a zombie apocalypse
- The case for Summer Mondays
- America's insane problem with counting prisoners
August 14th
- America's despicable, hypocritical persecution of Chelsea Manning
- The agony and the agony of being a New York Jets fan
August 12th
- How America's alliances could drag it into nuclear war with Russia or China
- Love and sex in the age of Tinder
- What Google learned from Warren Buffett
August 11th
- How the riveting Vidal v. Buckley debates paved the way for an era of idiotic TV punditry
- The hard work of chill parenting
August 10th
- Why poor whites should rally behind Black Lives Matter
- What True Detective could learn from Mr. Robot, the real best show on television
August 7th
- Nobody is talking about the world's most underrated economic policy
- Why your salary should be public knowledge
- The moderate's defense of abortion rights: A reply to Ross Douthat on Planned Parenthood
August 6th
- What stops us from talking about miscarriage
August 5th
- Why it's too late to prevent the robot apocalypse
- Do American cops have a race problem? Or a class problem?
- The evidence is in: Solitary confinement is unconstitutional torture
August 4th
- The glaring hypocrisy of the pro-life movement
- The U.S. is enabling a terrible mistake in Yemen
- Obama's new clean power plan almost certainly won't raise your electric bill. That's a bad thing.
August 3rd
- The West has a big Turkey problem
- John Roberts has been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act for decades

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