List: Murica | Curated by Shawn Forno

Jan 17, 2025
71 stories
MuricaLand of the…
In
Westenberg
by
JA Westenberg
The Cost of Easy LivingImagine spending 400,000 years climbing to the top of the food chain, only to lose the will to live because your GrubHub driver forgot the…
Dec 4, 2024
28
Dec 4, 2024
28
In
The Political Prism
by
John Polonis
The Controversial NYC Congestion Pricing ProgramWhy I like it as a New Yorker
Jan 10
26
Jan 10
26
Cory Doctorow
Expert agencies and elected legislaturesLegislatures are entitled to their own (political) opinions but not their own facts.
Nov 21, 2024
9
Nov 21, 2024
9
Scott Galloway
The Testosterone ElectionI believe the more interesting conversation than why she lost, is how he won. We on the left try to comfort each other with the cold (i.e…
Nov 16, 2024
58
Nov 16, 2024
58
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Age of Empathy
by
Martha Manning, Ph.D.
I Don’t See Thanksgiving Happening This YearThe election is poison, and my family has swallowed it
Nov 4, 2024
88
Nov 4, 2024
88
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An Injustice!
by
Richard Lowenthal
Individualism and Capitalism are Failed Social PhilosophiesIndividualism and capitalism need and feed off each other. But do we need THEM?
Sep 20, 2024
58
Sep 20, 2024
58
In
Counter Arts
by
Argumentative Penguin
Is ‘Celebrity’ The Achilles Heel Of Democracy?And what can we learn from the lessons of ‘Black Bag’ (1967)
Sep 2, 2024
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Sep 2, 2024
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Scott Galloway
HoardersThroughout human history, if we had access to more than we needed, we kept the excess to survive in leaner times. Having surplus items also…
Jun 7, 2024
27
Jun 7, 2024
27
Cory Doctorow
Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless ShrimpUsing class warfare as cover for looting.
May 23, 2024
49
May 23, 2024
49
In
ILLUMINATION
by
T. J. Brearton
The Real Secret to Donald Trump’s SuccessHow does his popularity grow despite mounting criminal charges? I finally understood what it was all about.
Sep 1, 2023
196
Sep 1, 2023
196
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Counter Arts
by
Cole Haddon
When Norman Rockwell Got Woke: The Story Behind ‘The Problem We All Live With’In the 1960s, America’s most famous artist transformed himself from an inadvertent white supremacist into a radical civil rights activist
Aug 25, 2023
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Aug 25, 2023
44
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Eudaimonia and Co
by
umair haque
The Opposite of Decline Isn’t Greatness. It’s a Healthy, Working Society.The Anxieties of a Society in Decline
Aug 24, 2023
9
Aug 24, 2023
9
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Surviving Tomorrow
by
Jared A. Brock
Henry Ford: If People Understood the Banking System, There’d Be a Revolution By TomorrowThis Week in Money July 30 — August 5
Jul 29, 2023
9
Jul 29, 2023
9
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ILLUMINATION
by
Liv Mocanu ( previous Livia Dabs)
Spain Had 2 Mass Shootings In 50 Years, America Has 2 A DayLiving in the US today gives you two options: you can either emigrate or accept the situation.
May 7, 2023
9
May 7, 2023
9
Cory Doctorow
Iowa’s starvation strategyMaybe the cruelty IS the point?
Apr 19, 2023
10
Apr 19, 2023
10
In
The Polis
by
William Spivey
The Eugenics Movement In America"The Central Mission Of All Politics Is Race Hygiene"-Harry Laughlin
Mar 12, 2023
43
Mar 12, 2023
43
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Surviving Tomorrow
by
Jared A. Brock
“It’s A Wonderful Life” Is a Dire Warning About the Evils of LandlordingWe’re becoming a world of slumlord Pottersvilles
Dec 6, 2022
12
Dec 6, 2022
12
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Surviving Tomorrow
by
Jared A. Brock
IRS Tax Rules Run More Than 75,000 Pages. It Could (and Should) Be Three Sentences.The USA will collapse under the weight of taxation unless we radically reform the economy now
Dec 12, 2022
26
Dec 12, 2022
26
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Surviving Tomorrow
by
Jared A. Brock
The Big Short’s Michael Burry Just Sold All His Stocks and Bought 106 Private Prisons — He Clearly…That’s why the anti-wellbeing gambler is also shorting Apple shares
Sep 13, 2022
29
Sep 13, 2022
29
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HOW TO STOP FASCISM
by
Paul Mason
What would a second American civil war look like?You’d need a theory of fascism and capitalist crisis to understand
Sep 6, 2022
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Sep 6, 2022
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