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Vancouver’s bold war on drugs
For many years Vancouver has had a serious heroin addiction. So it’s heartening to see that one of the city’s boldest strategies for confronting the problem, launched eight years ago, is continuing to...
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Bookending Bin Laden
MoJo’s Michael Mechanic has pulled together how eight newspapers captured the defining moments of Osama bin Laden’s mortal entanglement with America. From the Gray Lady to the tabloids, it’s...
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The case for releasing the Bin Laden photo
[Post updated below through May 10.] In my view there’s a clear and compelling reason why the United States should release an image of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. It has little to do with nutty...
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John Yoo’s faulty Bin Laden conspiracy theory
John Yoo is someone who knows how to push an argument. At the U.S. Justice Department he designed rationales for the most controversial policies of the Bush-Cheney “war on terror,” and since then he...
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“The White House wants to get him”
I’m still stunned from reading this story on the front page of today’s New York Times. Officials in George W. Bush’s White House, James Risen reports, directed the Central Intelligence Agency to dig up...
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The case of the New York Times’ terror error
As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, it isn’t hard to recall the politically fraught case of the 20-year-old bearded kid captured by US soldiers in Afghanistan in late 2001. But think the media...
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Conflicting tales of killing bin Laden
[This post has been revised and expanded several times since initial publication; see updates below.] You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to be still scratching your head about the end of Osama...
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Return to Medicine Bow
Two summers ago I posted about the mix of beauty and devastation in Wyoming’s Medicine Bow National Forest. It was a similar story upon returning this August: this year’s heavy rains and enduring snow...
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MoJo working
Why so quiet here on the blog the last couple months? As many of you know, in September I started a new gig at Mother Jones. That’s keeping me pretty busy these days, but I’ll continue to post here...
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Gabby Giffords and poison politics
In case you missed it, Gabrielle Giffords’ arrival for the State of the Union on Tuesday night was something to behold. In a House chamber so often filled with vapid political theater, the recovering...
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MediaBugs and the path to more accurate news
A few months back Scott Rosenberg and I filed our final report to the Knight Foundation on the first two years of MediaBugs. Here’s the full top-line summary from it, detailing how our various wins and...
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“America Under the Gun”: Our award-winning investigation
Proud to share some exciting news: The investigation into mass shootings that I’ve led at Mother Jones, begun the day of the attack in Aurora, Colorado, nearly a year ago, has recently been honored...
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TRIGGER POINTS: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
My new book is the first ever to tell the story of specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, educators, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings. For more about...
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