Johann Hari talking: If you had said to me four years ago, when I started on the really long journey through nine countries to write … Addiction is an adaptation to your environmentRead more
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The Cause of Addiction
It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned — and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have … The Cause of AddictionRead more
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Going to the Arctic to witness history
I’m aboard the Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, just out of Tromsø in northern Norway, to journey far north, to the edge of the Arctic … Going to the Arctic to witness historyRead more
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The Meaning of Black Friday
When Black Friday devours Thanksgiving, capitalism consumes one of its sustaining myths. Black Friday began as a traffic accident. Or a series of them. In … The Meaning of Black FridayRead more
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In the Land of Zapata
General Emiliano Zapata would roll over in his grave. The Morelos Integral Project, or PIM for its initials in Spanish, is a 160-kilometer natural gas … In the Land of ZapataRead more
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Is the World Too Big to Fail?
The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces — coinciding, fortuitously, with a … Is the World Too Big to Fail?Read more
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Security is not a crime
On Tuesday December 16th, a large police operation took place in the Spanish State. Fourteen houses and social centers were raided in Barcelona, Sabadell, Manresa, … Security is not a crimeRead more
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Abandoning an American Hostage in Syria
how the U.S. has failed to win the release of hostages captured by ISIS and other militants, we turn now to the case of Peter … Abandoning an American Hostage in SyriaRead more
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The public is wrong on climate, as it was on slavery, women’s rights
The latest public opinion study out of Yale’s Project on Climate Change Communication has all the usual hints of optimism we’ve seen in the Project’s … The public is wrong on climate, as it was on slavery, women’s rightsRead more
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Explaining Burma’s missing 9 million people
The best way to deal with embarrassing, inconvenient facts is to ignore them, writes Guy Horton. And this is precisely what the international community is … Explaining Burma’s missing 9 million peopleRead more