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The Nice Cop

If the most decent guy I knew could become a murderer when he put on a uniform, something is systemically wrong with policing itself…

by Nick Slater

Meat and the H-Word

Given the amount of suffering involved in the mass killing of animals, how is it not one of the greatest moral atrocities of our time?

by Nathan J. Robinson