Rick Rubin & Justin Bieber working together

Roberto Saviano: My life under armed guard

At Silk Road trial, federal agent explains how he trapped Ulbricht

PJ Harvey: 10 of the Best

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What if the Paris attacks weren’t just about free speech?

Manus Island hunger striker pleads to see Australian daughter before he dies

Corruption and Revolt

Sherwood & Pinch Mix 1

The Pragmatic Realities of the Islamic State

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs held a public lecture entitled: Marketing Utopia: The Pragmatic Realities of the Islamic State by Peter Harling, Regional Analyst and Former Advisor to the Special Envoy to Syria

Jeremy Scahill's pot-shot at TV terrorism experts

Davy Henderson on music and the power of one

"I remember the Fire Engines playing with U2 in Valentino's in Edinburgh," Henderson says of a 1981 club show with the future messiahs. "We were sound-checking, and Bono came in singing 'Ave Maria.' It's interesting the radius that developed from out of that little pebble-drop, and the choices we made as a band and the choices they made, so now they're an industrial corporation, who, by dropping five-hundred million copies of their album onto iTunes automatically, completely devalued their music to the level of it becoming spam. That's not rock & roll. That's fascism. So we're actually doing something that's more than polar opposite of what they're doing. It's not just the opposite. It's like a black hole inversion

What Your Taste In Music Says About You, According To Science

Well from the photo above I can tell you have exceedingly shit taste

7 writers, comedians, and cartoonists discuss humor, hate, and the Charlie Hebdo shootings

Freedom of speech is now compulsory

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