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Sunday February 14, 2016
The Sunday Edition Facebook: What's Not to Like? - an Ira Basen documentary
Ira pulls back the curtain on Facebook's phenomenal rise to global domination, and the surprising price we may all pay for it. Are these the dying days of the truly open web?
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Sunday June 19, 2016
The Sunday Edition Rebecca Solnit and Andrew Solomon on America's culture of violence
Rebecca Solnit and Andrew Solomon talk to Michael Enright about Orlando, homophobia, domestic violence and U.S. gun culture.
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Sunday October 18, 2015
Has the internet been good for democracy? An Ira Basen documentary
In his documentary “Tools of the Game”, Ira Basen looks at what happened to the dream that the internet would bring power to the people.
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Sunday June 26, 2016
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Trump voters aren't who you think they are - Michael's essay
The party faithful knew, or thought they knew, who Trump was and what he stood for on any given day. But who the hell were his supporters? Who were these people who were voting for him in such weighty numbers? More read comments
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Is the Brexit vote nostalgia for the bygone glories of the British Empire?
Oxford University historian Margaret MacMillan on "the morning after the night before" mood in post-Brexit Britain. More read comments
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If you use an ad blocker, you're killing the internet - an Ira Basen documentary
Pop-ups, auto-play video, the ubiquitous miracle cures for belly fat. It's hard to escape the commercial pollution of the internet. Millions of us have turned to ad blockers, leaving publishers and advertisers scrambling for solutions. Ira Basen explores the high stakes and high-tech future of online advertising in "Skip This Ad." More read comments
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A poet explains why he hates poetry — and why you probably do too
English professor, novelist and poet Ben Lerner says even great poets are doomed to fail, because they yearn for the divine which cannot possibly be grasped. His book is called, "The Hatred of Poetry". More read comments
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