Far Right and Far Left Fooled Into Believing Their Own Spin

This month’s presidential election was between two fairly centrist candidates. And yet political discourse between ordinary Republicans and Democrats is more contentious and hostile than it’s been in decades

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Myths Vs. Facts: Copyright Not Needed to Make Money

One of the most persistent myths about the copyright monopoly has been that it’s needed to make money. This assertion turns out to be false for a very large number of observed cases, but the plural of anecdote is never statistics

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Fact Checking The Fact Checkers

If media fact checkers are just impartial guardians of the truth, how come they got their own facts wrong about Paul Ryan’s speech, and did so in a way that helped President Obama’s re-election effort?

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