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Publications – 2015-2011

2015

  • Trump’s Enemies List: A Trial Balloon for More Repression, CounterPunch, November 24, 2015.
  • NYPD: The New Red Squad, CounterPunch, November 13-15, 2015.
  • If Donald Dump Was President, CounterPunch, October 9, 2015.`
  • The Night Josephine Baker Never Got Her Steak, Black Star News, October 7, 2015.
  • New York City’s 1900 “Race Riot,” Black Star News, September 21, 2015.
  • The Great Disillusionment, CounterPunch, September 11-13, 2015.
  • 16 and Pregnant: Can Realty TV Promote Positive Social Change?, Documentary Television, September 1, 2015.
  • Rebellion Or Riots?: History Of Race-Based Confrontations In The United States, Black Star News, August 31, 2015.
  • Billie Holiday: Enduring Relevance of “Strange Fruit,” Black Star New, August 27, 2015.
  • Class vs. Culture: Reframing Political Struggle, CounterPunch, August 21-23, 2015.
  • Hillary Clinton: Learn From Your Sisters, CounterPunch, July 31-August 2, 2015.

2014

  • AIDS: Rise of Killer Virus. Documentary Television, November 30, 2014
  • HIV & Ebola & the Zoonoses Wars: The Other Ecological Crisis. CounterPunch, November 21-23, 2014.
  • Ambitious new documentary, airing on World AIDS Day, will trace origins of HIV. 429magazine, November 26, 2014
  •  The Ritual of Beheading: A History of Political Terror. CounterPunch, November 21-23, 2014.
  • Sex Toy Industry Has Quietly Turned Into Multi-Billion-Dollar Business. AlterNet, November 18, 2014.
  • Point of No Return?: Gay Marriage and the 2014 Elections. CounterPunch, November 3, 2014.
  • Has the U.S. finally reached a tipping point with same-sex marriage?  429magazine, Oct 14, 2014.
  • Meet the New Proletariat: The Political Economy of Freelancing. CounterPunch, October 24-26, 2014.
  • To See the Bleak Future of U.S. Workers, Look What Happened to an NBC Contractor Covering the Ebola Outbreak, AlterNet, October 12, 2014.
  • Thomas Page McBee’s “Man Alive.“ 429magazine, Oct 14, 2014.
  • Does Folsom Street Fair signal the death of leather? 429magazine, September 16, 2014
  • 5 Scams and Rackets That Can Turn You Into a 21st-Century Indentured Servant, AlterNet, July 2, 2014
  • Meet the Rockefellers: American Oligarchs & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 16-18, 2014.
  • Meet the Waltons: American Oligarchs & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 9-11, 2014.
  • Plutocrats v. Oligarchs: America’s Superrich & the Influence They Wield. CounterPunch, May 2-4, 2014.
  • Save Net Neutrality: Make the Internet a Common Carrier, CounterPunch, April 25-27, 2014.
  • How Much Sexting Do Americans Do? Ask the British Surveillance State. AlterNet, March 21, 2014
  • Who’s a Virgin?: The Sexual Practices of Young Americans, CounterPunch, March 21-23, 2014.
  • Alienated Bodies: The Boom in Plastic Surgery, CounterPunch, March 7-9, 2014.
  • The Five Horsemen of the Cyber Apocalypse, Cyber Defense Magazine, February 2014.
  • Incest Panic in America!: Woody Allen and the Oldest Taboo, CounterPunch, February 14-16, 2014.
  • Media Consolidation Intensifies: Can the Comcast and Time/Warner Cable Merger be Stopped?, CounterPunch, February 13, 2014.
  • The School Broadband Scam: Kids Suffer as Telecoms Profits Soar, CounterPunch, February 7-9, 2014.
  • Super Bowl Sex: The Sex Trade and the Crisis of Masculinity, CounterPunch, January 31-February 2, 2014.
  • Will 2014 Be the Year That Smartphone Filmmaking Goes Mainstream?, IndieWire, January 29, 2013.
  • Privatizing the Public Good: Is This the End of Net Neutrality? CounterPunch, January 15, 2014.

2013

  • Obama Disses Digital Promise to U.S. Kids: Broadband to the Classroom. CounterPunch, August 9-11, 2013.
  • Trading Flesh for Cash: Inside the Strip Club.  AlterNet, August 8, 2013.
  • Sex Crime Charade:  Why Have Prostitution Arrests Dropped by 50 Percent?  CounterPunch, August 2-4, 2013.
  • Could Porn Be Censored in America?  AlterNet, July 31, 2013
  • A Tale of Two Pols: Carlos Danger v. Beau James.  CounterPunch, July 26-28, 2013
  • The Flesh Trade: Sex Work in America.  AlterNet, July 18, 2013.
  • The Great Sandy Shell Game: American Telecom Users Will Be the Real Losers.  CounterPunch, July 18, 2013.
  • New Pornographers Claim Their Work Is Ethical, Feminist and ‘Sex-Positive,’ But Will It Sell?  AlterNet, July 4, 2013.
  • sex, lies and the great recession:  What’s the Sexual Health of the Nation?  CounterPunch, June 21-13, 2013.
  • Village People, a review of John Strausbaugh’s
 The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village.  Brooklyn Rail, June 2013. 
  • Is the Rise of Filthy Gonzo Porn Actually Dangerous, Or Are People Overreacting?  AlterNet, June 7, 2013.
  • Is Success Killing the Porn Industry? AlterNet, May 27, 2013.
  • Regulatory Capture at the FCC:  Corporate Corruption and the Special Interest State.  CounterPunch,  May 24-26, 2013.
  • Weiner Redux:  Political Rehabilitation & the End of the Culture Wars. CounterPunch, May 23, 2013.
  • The Real Gatsby: The One-and-Owney. CounterPunch, May 14, 2013.
  • Arresting a Teen Girl for Dozing Off in Class? Why Normal Kid Behavior Is Treated As a Crime or Psychiatric Disorder.  AlterNet,  May 6, 2013.
  • Tribeca Interactive: New Voices in Indie New Media.  CounterPunch, AlterNet, April 12-14, 2013.
  • How the Women of Good Vibrations and Babeland Have Helped to Liberate Female Orgasms. AlterNet, April 18, 2013.
  • Another Internet is Possible: Some Questions for the New FCC Chairperson.  CounterPunch, April 5-7, 2013.
  • What Academic Freedom?, a review  Marjorie Heins,
Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom and the Anti-Communist Purge, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2013.
  • Republicans Rev Up Conservative Cinema, Filmmaker, March 25, 2013.
  • Amazon Sells 60,000 Sex Toys and Related Products? Welcome to Sex 4.0. AlterNet, March 22, 2013.
  • What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today.  AlterNet, March 8, 2013.
  • AT&T Wants New Digital Dead Zones, with Bruce Kushnick.  Huffington Post, March 7, 2013.
  • The Great One, Two Punch: Socialize Costs, Privatize Profits.  CounterPunch, March 1-3, 2013.
  • The Telecom Crisis: Opium of the 21st Century.  CounterPunch, January 25-27, 2013.
  • The Body Politic, a review Nancy Cohen’s Delirium:  The Politics of Sex in America, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2013.
  • End of the Culture Wars?: Is the Christian Right’s Fury Spent for Now?.  CounterPunch, January 25-27 , 2013.
  • Consumer Beware:  You Are Being Tracked.  AlterNet,  January 17, 2013. 
  • “Sexual Politics in the Age of Obama,” in Hopeless:  Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, ed.  by Jeffrey St. Clair, AK Press (2012).
  • MEDIA CURRENT: News & Analysis for Indie Makers
    A column for Filmmaker magazine.
    • August 2013:  In the Age of Digital Disruption, What is a Movie?
    • July 2013:  Will “Unbundling” Kill Cable?
    • July 2013:  Amazon Studios Ups the Ante in the Content Wars
    • June 2013:  VOD Wars Heat Up
    • June 2013:  What Indie Filmmakers Need to Know About Mobile Video Viewing
    • May 2013:  Will Tom Wheeler Kill Net Neutrality?
    • April 2013:  Just How Healthy Is Independent Film Distribution?
    • April 2013:  YouTube’s Aggressive Move into Original Content
    • March 2013: Republicans Rev Up Conservative Cinema.
    • March 2013:  Six Strikes and You’re Out.
    • February 2013:  Opportunities for Indies?
    • February 2013: Neutralizing Net Neutrality
    • January 2013: Video Streaming & Indies
    • January 2013:  Will Data Caps Kill Indie Film

2012

  • Pregnant Women Are NOT Incubators: Its Time to End the Right’s War Against Women.  CounterPunch, December 28-30, 2012.  AUL and ALEC have turned pregnant women into incubators
  • The Spy  State Tightens its Grip.  AlterNet, December 24, 2012.  Americans are paying an ever-increasing price to maintain the spy state. 
  • Ho, Ho, Ho X-Mas Shoppers:  Santa as Big Brother.  CounterPunch, December 21-23, 2012.  This Christmas season, you are probably being tracked when shopping.
  • Police Have the Scary Capability to Track Wherever You’re Driving.  AlterNet, December 6, 2012.  License-plate reading technology’s daw dropping capabilities are already deployed across America.
  • Looking Beyond Hurricane Sandy: America’s Failing Telecom Infrastructure. CounterPunch, November 15, 2012.  Infrastructure failures due to Hurricane Sandy expose deeper problems of the communications system. 
  • The Return of Infidelity:  The Last Frontier of the Culture Wars?  CounterPunch, November 12, 2012.  What the extramarital scandals at the CIA and Lockheed Martin tell us about the Christian right’s culture wars.
  • How Telecoms Sell Your Private Info to the Highest Bidder.  AlterNet, November 8, 2012.  Wireless providers are collecting and reselling your usage data — a lot of what they do remains secret.
  • Inside the Gulag:  Rape in America’s Prisons.  CounterPunch, October 12-14, 2012.
    Nearly 210,000 prisoners are sexually abused each year in America’s prisons.
  • The Unbelievable Ways Schools Are Now Monitoring Children — Even When They’re Eating.  AlterNet, October 5, 2012.
    The digital tracking and surveillance of school-aged kids is growing.
  • Passion, Perversion & Politics:  The Folsom Street Fair and the 2012 Election.  CounterPunch, October 5-7, 2012.
    Today’s alternative “adult” sex scene is a $50 billion industry.
  • Is Privacy Dead?:  4 Government and Private Entities Conspiring to Track Everything You Do Online and Off.  AlterNet, September 10, 2012.
    The police-corporate surveillance “complex” is being consolidated, drawing ever-closer corporate tracking and government surveillance.
  • City at War, a review of Steven Jaffe’s New York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham.  The Brooklyn Rail, September 2012.
  • The New White Slave Trade:  The Truth About Sex Trafficking.  CounterPunch, August 24-26, 2012.
    How accurate is the 100,000-plus estimate of sex trafficking in the U.S.?
  • How Privacy in America Went Virtually Extinct in Just a Decade.  AlterNet, August 21, 2012.
    Unless we challenge the idea the we should concede our rights to protect our privacy, it’ll get even worse.
  • Why Our Phone Companies Are Threatened by Big Telecom Privatization, with Bruce Kushnick.  AlterNet, July 26, 2012.
    Consumers stand to lose big-time if the FCC and its corporate friends get their way.
  • The New Police Surveillance State:  The Rising Price of Political Assembly.  CounterPunch, July 31, 2012.
    The coordinated role of federal and local law enforcement in restricting popular protest.
  • ALEC, Tech and the Telecom Wars:  Killing America’s Telecom Utilities, with Bruce Kushnick. Huffington Post, July 24, 2012.
  • What Secrets Is Your Cell Phone Company Telling the Government About You?   AlterNet, July 11, 2012.
  • Mass Arrests Likely at Political Conventions:  6 Historical Perspectives.  AlterNet, July 5, 2012.
    Clinton’s law designates political conventions National Special Security Events,  a category of state security that virtually dooms the exercise of First Amendment Rights. 
  • Obama’s Broadband Vision vs.  the Communications Trust, with Bruce Kushnick.   Huffington Post, June 25, 2012.
  • The Other Sex War: Porn, Sex Toys & Consensual Adult Get-Togethers.  CounterPunch, June 15-17, 2012.
    There is another sex war and lots of people are involved.
  • 6 Government Surveillance Programs Designed to What What You Do Online.  AlterNet, June 6, 2012.
    If you use Facebook, Twitter, et al., the U.S. security state is watching you.
  • Deviant Reflections: A Voice of Sexual Freedom, a review of “Deviations, a Gayle Rubin Reader.”  The Brooklyn Rail, June 2012.
  • America’s Spy State:  How the Telecoms Sell Out Your Privacy.  AlterNet, May 29, 2012.
    Your “private” information is a public commodity, subject to the dictates of the security state and market opportunists.
  • The Terrifying Ways Google is Destroying Your Privacy.  AlterNet, May 20, 2012.
    Google has morphed from “Don’t be evil” to “Join the Borg.”
  • Urban Combustion:  When Morality & Politics Mix, a review of Richard Zacks’ “Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York.”  Br0oklyn Rail, May 2012.
  • Paying the Price:  The Sexual Politics of Poverty.  CounterPunch, May 11-13, 2012.
    Young girls are paying the biggest price for the ongoing economic crisis.
  • Another Prohibition:  Uncovering the Real 1920s, a review of Emily Bernard’s Carl Van Vechten & the  Harlem Renaissance and Marni Davis’ Jews and Booze.   Brooklyn Rail, April 2012.
  • Enforcing the Culture Wars:  The State as an Instrument of Sexual Repression.  CounterPunch, April 13-15, 2012.  The culture wars are being fought out at the state level throughout the country.
  • We Are All Luddites:  Fighting Post-Modern Enclosure.  CounterPunch, March 30-April 1, 2012.
    This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Luddite uprising.
  • The Telecom Scammers’ Latest Ploy to Screw You for More Cash.  AlterNet, March 21, 2012.
    Fees, surcharges and taxes make wireless companies tons of money.
  • Perversion Is No Longer Perverse, a review of  Margot Weiss’ Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality.  Brooklyn Rail, March 2012.
  • Santorum & the New Know-Nothings:  The Revival of American Nativism.  CounterPunch, March 9, 2012.
    Santorum’s appeal is grounded in a deep current of American political history.
  • You Are Being Tracked Online:  Here Are 5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy. AlterNet, March 7, 2012.
    Your personal data is being gobbled up by online service providers.
  • Happy Birthday, Mr. President:  Sex, Sin & the 2010 Election.  CounterPunch, January 16, 2012.
    What does the latest revelation of JFK’s extramarital affair tell us about the 2012 election?
  • WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul, a review of Christopher Turner’s Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America.  Brooklyn Rail, February 2012.
  • Telecom Rip-Off:  The Hidden Fees in Your Wireless and Phone Bills.  AlterNet, January 16, 2012.
    The telecom industry is squeezing more money out of customers without delivering any new or improved service.
  • Amorality & False Consciousness: The Mass Psychology of Newt Gingrich.  CounterPunch, January 27-29, 2012.
    Gingrich is the most hypocritical presidential candidate in modern history.
  • Sin, Sex & South Carolina:  Culture Wars in the 2012 Election.  CounterPunch, January 20-22, 2012.
    The seamy side of South Carolina’s sexual culture. 
  • Least We Forget:  Mitt Romney, Banker & Pornographer.  CounterPunch, January 13-15, 2012.
    Romney has effectively remade his past; he’s slippery, no one knows who he is or what he stands for.
  • MEDIA CURRENT: News & Analysis for Indie Makers
  • A column for Filmmaker magazine.
  • December 2012:  Internet Alternatives
  • December 2012:  Murdock’s Media Monopoly
  • November 2012:  Will Comcast Get Disney?
  • November 2012: VOD for Indies
  • October 2012: Encrypting Basic TV
  • October 2012: Pay to View
  • September 2012: Another Web is Possible
  • September 2012:The Screen Matters
  • August 2012:  Google Fiber
  • August 2012:  What’s Happening, Mr. Jones?
  • July 2012:  Film Business Shrinking
  • July 2012:  Cell Phone Policing
  • June 2012: Artful Dodgers
  • June 2012: Personal Democracy

May 2012: Is Crowdfunding for You

  • May 2012:The New Hollywood
  • April 2012:What Privacy
  • April 2012: Cable Woes
  • April 2012: Hollywood Shuffle
  • March 2012:Are You Being Throttled?
  • March 2012: Aereo & the New TV Wars
  • February 2012: Bruised Apple
  • February 2012:Broadband Failure

January 2012: End to Cross-Ownership Rules?

2011

  • The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don’t Know About, AlterNet, April 20, 2011.
  • TV Wars, Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2011.
  • Salons:  A New Intellectual Culture is Taking Shape Throughout the Country, AlterNet, May 8, 2011.
  • Its Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, TimeWarner and the Rest of the Telecoms,AlterNet, May 11, 2011.
  • The Big Squeeze, AlterNet, May 19, 2011.
  • Points of Moral Friction:  When Classes Confront Each Other, Brooklyn Rail, May  2011.
  • Arnold’s Decade of Deceit:  Schwarzenegger’s Sexcapades and the Plight of the GOP, CounterPunch, May 27-29, 2011.
  • AT&T  and T-Mobile Edge Closer to Merger, What’s In It For Customers?, Very Little, AlterNet, June 9, 201
  • Pessimism, USA: Living While Holding Your Breath. CounterPunch, June 10-12, 2011.
  • Weiner Roast: The Politics of Narcissism. CounterPunch, June 15, 2011.
  • The Secret $8 Billion Wireless Scam:  How AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Game the System, AlterNet, June 20, 2011.
  • Shill R Us:  Organizations That Get AT&T Cash Endorse its Mega-Merger with T-Mobile, AlterNet, June 22, 2011.
  • America’s Tahrir Square: The Lessons of the Bonus Army. CounterPunch, June 24-26, 2011.
  • The Smart Phone Con Job:  Your So-Called 4G Phone Isn’t What Its Cracked Up to Be. AlterNet, June 30, 2011.
  • AIDS at 30: Things Will Likely Get Worse for the Most Vulnerable. CounterPunch, July 8-10, 2011.
  • Questions Plague Bachman:  Playing the New Political Shell Game.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.
  • Remembering the Bonus Army: Where Are Today’s Mass Nonviolent Protests? AlterNet, July 27, 2011.
  • The Pledge Plague:  The Cheap Price of Virtue.  ANDmagazine, July 2011.
  • Praying for Votes:  The New Way to Buy an Election.  CounterPunch, August 8-10, 2011.
  • One Nation, Under God:  The World According to Pastor Rich.  CounterPunch, August 19-20, 2011.
  • Christian Theocrats Stealth Plan to Seize Power.ANDmgazine, August 2011
  • Drugged Out America: The Failed War on Drugs.  CounterPunch.  September 2, 2011 .
  • The Politics of Fashion. ANDmagazine,  September  2011. 
  • Least We Forget: Illegal Arrests During Period of National Crisis.  CounterPunch, September 10-11, 2011.
  • Decline or Restructuring?: Welcome to the Post-Modern Gilded Age.  CounterPunch.  September 17-18, 2011.
  • 5 Takeaways from the IPF’s Independent Film Market.  DocumentaryTelevision, September 25,  2011.
  • American Vengeance:  The Roots of Social Terror.  CounterPunch,  September 30-October 1, 2011.
  • The 1920s:  The Good Times?,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
  • Are You What You Wear?:  The Politics of Fashion,  The Brooklyn Rail,  October 2011.
  • The Great Fear is Democracy:  Will Bloomburg Pull the Plug on Occupy Wall Street?  CounterPunch,  October 7-9, 2011.
  • “End Regulation Now”:  Dreaming the Tea Party Nightmare,  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
  • The Politics of Obesity: The Fattening of the Nation.  CounterPunch,  October 28-30, 2011.
  • America’s Illegal Drug Complex:  Another Capitalist Racket.  CounterPunch,  November 11-13, 2011.
  • The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Two Much for Bad Service,  AlterNet.  November 11 , 2011.
  • The Telecom Scam: 5 Behemoths That Strangle Innovation and Ensure You Pay Two Much for Bad Service,  AlterNet.  November 11 , 2011.
  • Sex, Scandals & Cover-Ups:  Waiting for the Second Shoe to Fall.  CounterPunch,  November 15, 2011.
  • Occupy Telecom, Occupy the FCC:  How the Communications Trust is Harming America’s Future.  AlterNet,  November 18, 2011.
  • How I Got Scammed:  A Schmuck is Born Everyday.   CounterPunch,  December 2-4, 2011.
  • The Gathering Storm: Austerity & Social Unrest.  CounterPunch,  December 9-10, 2011.
  • State Crime & Villainy:  Eugenics in America.  CounterPunch,  December 16-18, 2011.
  • Shame of the Nation:  Sexual Violence in America.  CounterPunch,  December 23-25, 2011.
  • Social Television Summit: Five Takeaways for Factual TV,  December 28, 2011.
  • Are You Being Tracked?:  8 Ways Your Privacy is Being Eroded Online and Off.  AlterNet,  December 28, 2011.
  • Lust Murder: Prostitutes as Victims of Throwaway Capitalism, CounterPunch, April 15-17, 2011.
  • A New Dark Ages:  Sexual Health and the Republican Counter-Revolution, CounterPunch, April 8-10, 2011
  • Cyber Wars 2.0, Brooklyn Rail, April 2011
  • How Politicians Are Using 911 Emergency Services to Scam Millions of Consumers, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, March 5, 2011.
  • The Party’s Over: Welcome to the “New Normal,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2011.
  • Condoms and Skins: America’s Changing Sexual Appetites, CounterPunch, February 25-26, 2011.
  • How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?, AlterNet, February 23, 2011
  • Notorious Pro-Corporate Group ALEC’s Hidden Role in Stoking Class War in Wisconsin and the Rest of America, AlterNet, February 22, 2011
  • Celebrating Presidents’ Day: Two Centuries of Presidential Sex Scandals, CounterPunch, February 21, 2011.
  • The Outrageous Ways Your Phone Company May Be Stealing from You, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, February 9, 2011.
  • Bottoms-Up American History; book review of  Thaddeus Russell’s A Renegade History of the United States, Brooklyn Rail, February 2011.
  • America’s Moral Crisis:  The Return to Social Darwinism, CounterPunch, January 28-30, 2011
  • Will Only Another Great Depression Save America?, AlterNet, January 20, 2011.
  • The Myth of American Primacy: Just How Exceptional is the US?, CounterPunch, January 7-9, 2011.
  • How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Captured the Regulator Supposed to Control Them, with Bruce Kushnick, AlterNet, January 8, 2011.
  • MEDIA CURRENT: News & Analysis for Indie Makers — a column for Filmmaker magazine.
  • December 2011: You Should be Paranoid
  • December 2011: Your TV Future
  • December 2011: The Shell Game
  • November 2011: The IP Wars
  • November 2011: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
  • November 2011: The AT&T Merger Update
  • October 2011:  The IFP Market
  • September 2011:Remembering 9/11
  • August 2011:  The Big Squeeze

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DAVID ROSEN is a widely published author whose books include
Sex, Sin & Subversion: The Transformation of 1950s New York’s Forbidden into America’s New Normal (2016); Sex Scandal America: Politics & the Ritual of Public Shaming (2009); Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films (1991), originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project. He is author of many scholarly articles, book reviews and popular pieces on media-tech, telecom, politics, sex and American life.

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