Fox Hosts for Legalizing Heroin

FoxLike a lot of 78-year-old white men, my father was watching Fox News Monday, and decided to click the next channel over to catch the rapid-fire libertarian stylings of our friend Kennedy. There, in a segment interviewing Wall Street Journal U.S. News Editor Glenn Hall about a recent story...

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Gawker Documentary Fails to Make Case for Publishing Sex Tape

Scott Keeler/ZUMA Press/NewscomNobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press. Available now on Netflix.




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I’m afraid that merely to disclose the subject of the Netflix documentary Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press is...

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Shakespeare and the Assassins - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Grassy Knoll PressLast weekend’s Big Fake Outrage involved a Shakespeare-in-the-Park production of Julius Caesar that features a Caesar based on Donald Trump. Caesar, as every schoolboy knows, is murdered in Act 3, so the show was denounced as “assassination porn” (note:...

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The Mist Gets Lost in a Baffling Cloud

‘The Mist,’ SpikeThe Mist. Spike. Thursday, June 22, 10 p.m.




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Stephen King’s novella The Mist, published back in 1980 before he was too important to suffer editors, was a marvel of taut, muscular prose. A...

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The British Left vs. the Deep State

Channel 4A phrase keeps cropping up in certain corners of the English press: A Very British Coup. That’s the name of Chris Mullin’s novel about a near-future U.K.—and by “near-future” I mean the early ’90s, because the book was published in 1982—where a...

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Summer Means Time for Television to Go Bonkers

‘Blood Drive,’ SyFyClaws. TNT. Sunday, June 11, 9 p.m.




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Blood Drive. SyFy. Wednesday, June 14, 10 p.m.
Summertime has arrived, and popcorn television is on us like a pack of rabid weasels. Like Santa and the...

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Deconstructing Wonder Woman - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Ms.If you want to watch a Wonder Woman movie today but can’t make it to a theater to see the new film, I’ve got you covered. Below you’ll find Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, a piece of feminist video art from the ’70s.
Let me clarify that: When Dara Birnbaum...

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EpiPen Not Overpriced, Despite New York Times Complaint

“Outcry Over EpiPen Prices Hasn’t Made Them Lower,” is the misleading headline over Charles Duhigg’s “Adventures in Capitalism” column in The New York Times business section. Duhigg writes, “I was surprised when my pharmacist informed me, months...

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I’m Dying Up Here Wants Viewers to Take the Saying Literally

‘I’m Dying Up Here,’ ShowtimeI’m Dying Up Here. Showtime. Sunday, June 4, 10 p.m.




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Somebody—Harry Shearer? Al Franken? Memory and Google both fail me—describing one of the grisly bloodbaths among the...

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Police Investigate a Cult Killing; It Turns Out to Be a Rock Video

Nine Inch Nails“It all began one peaceful Michigan morning,” narrator Rafael Abramovitz explains, “when a farmer named Robert Reed woke up to check on his corn field. Farmer Reed looked up towards the sun that morning and saw something strange floating across the sky. It...

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