Showing posts with label The Daily Show / The Colbert Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Daily Show / The Colbert Report. Show all posts
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sarah Vowell: The Wordy Shipmates

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U.S. President Ronald Reagan In January 1989, U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued his “Farewell Address to the Nation” from the Oval O...

David Rakoff: Half Empty

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Half empty or half full? “Is the glass half empty or half full?” is a common expression, used rhetorically to indicate that a particul...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Seth Mnookin: The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear

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The MMR vaccine controversy refers to claims that autism spectrum disorders are a direct result to having the MMR vaccine administered. MMR ...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Michael Lewis: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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In finance, short selling (also known as shorting or going short) is the practice of selling assets, usually securities, that have been borr...

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System... and Themselves

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"Too big to fail" is a term of art in regulation and public policy that refers to businesses dealing with market complications rel...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Gordon Brown: Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization

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The author of his controversial and interesting books were recently the subject of a review on The Economist, which was titled "Oh me, ...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

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Thomas Ricks is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter that used to work for the Wall Street Journal. He now blogs for Foreign Policy and is a fe...