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Letters at 3AM: A Big Picture and a Long Game
A U.S. military powered by biofuels could be a game-changer that ends the oil wars
Michael Ventura
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Letters at 3AM: Too Much of Nothing
The United States pacifies Afghanistan just enough so that China can profit
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Letters at 3AM: A Century Since ‘The Water Nymph’
On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand
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Letters at 3AM: Why Not Chicken Fat?
The most important political question of our time: Who benefits from military spending?
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Letters at 3AM: The System Ain’t the System
The goal of oligarchy is to utterly disempower the workforce
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Letters at 3AM: A Jog in the Smog
What we know is increasingly disconnected from what we do
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Letters at 3AM: Accidents of Birth and Rebirth
The unacceptable trade-off for a medically extended life
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Letters at 3AM: ‘I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing’
“Route 66” taught me that I did not want to be rooted again
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Letters at 3AM: ‘Suppose I Said I Was the Queen of Spain?’
In the early part of the Sixties, television’s “Route 66” offered a taste of the new American consciousness
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Letters at 3AM: ‘Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?’
“Route 66” spoke to the sense of change afoot in America
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Letters at 3AM: A View From the St. James Hotel
The St. James: It’s an infirmary, it’s a morgue, and it’s a hotel where we each share a room with the dead