Best Sex-Work Books of 2015
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Some writers see Star Wars as a cinematic Death Star.
So says Purdue University President Mitch Daniels in the Wall Street Journal
Was the drug war imposed on black America, or did black America demand it?
George Lucas' greatest triumph is charting a generation's passage from antiwar activism to running Abu Ghraib and secret kill lists.
How culture, economies, technology, and government evolve
The movie is fun, but its post-Galactic Empire political structure doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Forget Right and Left: Are You an Upwinger or a Downwinger?
Bestselling author Andy Weir on politics, commercial space, and the future of publishing
Arguing about politics is part of what makes Star Wars fandom so much fun.
The Washington Post's Alyssa Rosenberg, Free Beacon's Sonny Bunch, and Reason's Peter Suderman fight over why we care.
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin company succeeds with its New Shepard Reusable Rocket
Makes a wonderful Christmas gift.
A historian tries to blame "Christian libertarians" for the idea that America is a Christian nation.
Something to watch with The Man in the High Castle
An executive whose bank faltered while he was highly compensated reviews a book on the Fed for the New York Times.
How creeping market forces are improving life in the Hermit Kingdom.
A new book argues that black America helped pave the way for the War on Drugs.
Q&A with the man who wrote the book behind the upcoming Hollywood film starring Matt Damon.
Dick and Liz Cheney's unpersuasive new book says exactly what you'd expect it to say.
Science fiction's culture wars have been around for as long as science fiction.
The Singularity is closer and dumber than you think.
A new book shines some light on the violent radicals of the 1970s but misses their biggest impact on American politics.
The fight to save a California oyster farm from the National Park Service
A Stanford historian thinks war is the engine that drives civilization. Is he right?
First season of show about strangers with mysterious mental connections debuts on Netflix.
The Fountainhead? More like The Open Conspiracy crossed with "The Gernsback Continuum."
Is director Brad Bird's film an "insidiously political" argument for the value of individual achievement?
The individualistic works and lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Gay rights, black neighborhoods, and how reformers paved the way for Eric Garner
A former drug czar's dazed and confused defense of marijuana prohibition
Harlan Ellison to get Hall of Fame award for classic short story "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman."
How the president's signature law came into effect, and what might come next
We didn't learn the lessons of the last crisis. Does that mean we're doomed to repeat it?
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