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Rethinking Military Spending

Can we argue the ethics of the military from an economic standpoint? David McCandless’s data visualizations point out some difficulties in that line of thinking.

Fort Hood

I was away at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting when news came through to Montreal that a United States soldier had opened fire on his fellows at Fort Hood in Texas. The initial media coverage was predictably scattered. Reports were coming in too fast to parse: the shooter was dead, the shooter wasn’t [...]