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Reason Morning Links: Private Police, Oriental Orientalism, and the Difference a Soundtrack Makes

Jesse Walker | 4.24.2009 7:15 AM

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- The next big policy fight: credit card fees and interest rates.

- The next big foreign policy story: North Korea to put two American reporters on trial.

- The soldier who didn't want to torture -- and killed herself.

- The interrogation strategy of "learned helplessness."

- Tracking citizens' cell phones without a warrant.

- The State of Michigan ponders the privatization of my alma mater.

- "Cash-Strapped Cities Try Private Guards Over Police"

- A vigorous defense of Twitter.

- A revival of interest in Orientalist art -- among Arabs.

- Illicit radio activity in Brazil.

- And finally, your Friday fun link. Note: By link I mean embedded video clip, and by fun I mean the creepiest thing you will see today.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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