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Slate’s The Gist with Mike Pesca: Russian Reality, Colonial Bestiality

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Justin Driver: “The Fall of Affirmative Action”

Andrew J. Taylor: “Blue-Collar Voters Don’t Want Blue-Collar Politicians”

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Amanda Knox — “You don’t have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody.”

KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox