The New York Times reported last week that American troops raided a key station on the Foreign Fighters’ Highway near the Iraq-Syria border and came across a treasure trove of data. Fortunately for us, those the coordinators of the global trade in suicide bombers kept their books up to date and left us a tidy [...]

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Yesterday was Buy Nothing Day, an anti-holiday to point out the consumerism that we (westerners) indulge in on a daily basis. My ability to observe buy nothing day is often predicated on who I’m hanging out with at the time. At one half of my in-laws, there’s usually enough left overs and we’re far enough [...]

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