Knocked Out Loaded
...no medical value whatsoever, like cocaine and heroin. The side effects of flunitrazepam are what make it such a troubling concoction. In addition to slowing psychomotor performance (e.g., the ability...
Blue Skies
...virtually useless in maintaining even the weakest vision of accountability. In contrast to the strict controls that have been developed by departments over time to store material evidence, Evidence.com seems...
Wizards of Like
...premise that makes News Feed work as it is supposed to, as an ad conduit. The algorithm is there to make the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to...
The Secret Shopper
...sure every chain store in the country is more or less the same follows a fairly simple process: Mystery shoppers sign up for each job separately through a mystery-shopping company...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
...was to my Falcons playbook.” The comparison between the study of dogs and the study of the Falcons playbook—the fluidity between them, the way they compete for the same mental...
Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
...body still suffers from the effects of that long imprisonment, to say nothing of my soul. Jacobs returns to me, gives me a way in. * The much-redacted executive summary...
"Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...happening--the lost (and never-packed) clothes reappearing for sale on the streets, the people insisting they recognized Ladivine Rivière, that whole murder-that-wasn’t-really-a-murder. Everything just seemed to be on pause. Like a...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...for two years. The multi-dimensionality of its effects revealed how deeply the nuclear apparatuses had been enmeshed in a society resting on an earthquake-prone archipelago. Amid a crisis on all...
The Paper Chase
...with Warren’s belief in the labor theory of value. Also built into the Cincinnati Time Store was the idea of community support through currency—those who shopped there were not only...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
...similarities, and disparities in these directors’ work. So while there may be no Oscars in store for Uggie and Joey, perhaps it will be some consolation to think that their...
"Organic stories"
...what really matters to Facebook — that you feed it likes and comments and so on. It's going to rig your feed to extort the most interaction (a.k.a. free immaterial...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...casually touched and unremarked upon) took decades, if not centuries, even if their effects were as dramatic in the long run. Indeed, the only others that happened close to this...
Search for a Method
...malign these efforts and help al-Qaeda succeed.” Instead, the most commonly referenced study comes from the New America Foundation, a nonprofit that is not too frothily right-wing, but certainly not...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers
Animals require a politics of labor
Who Can You Trust?
...visibility has enabled the company to make names, both real and imagined, a standard part of the online experience. Visitors can email [email protected] to schedule online or in-store appointments with...