New Republic
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New Republic is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 14, 2021 and December 22, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “New Republic quoting a Honduran journalist”; “I criticized this story - repeated by Mic , New Republic , and the Washington Post”. It most often appears alongside United States, Alaska, America.
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- Category: Publications
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 14, 2021
- Last seen: December 22, 2022
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- Alaska (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Amisulpride (1 shared issues)
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- anarcho-capitalist (1 shared issues)
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- Arizona Supreme Court (1 shared issues)
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- Australia (1 shared issues)
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- Austria (1 shared issues)
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- Ayn Rand (1 shared issues)
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- Baker Street Herald (1 shared issues)
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- Balaji Srinivasan (1 shared issues)
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- Beijing International Airport (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
“Nightmare libertarian project turns Honduras into the murder capital of the world!” says Salon (Honduras’ murder rate has been consistently terrible, started its most recent increase in 2006, started going down in 2011, and is now around the same as it was in 1990; the libertarians control an area of land smaller than a golf course in a country of ten million people). New Republic quoting a Honduran journalist: “I’ve seen all sorts of horrific things in my time, but none as detrimental to the country as this.” (Hurricane Mitch hit Honduras in 1998, killing 7,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless; Próspera plans to build a nice city on unoccupied land and let people live in it if they want).
I criticized this story - repeated by Mic, New Republic, and the Washington Post - saying that only 0.01% of welfare users tested positive for drugs. If true, welfare recipients would use drugs at less than 1% of the rate of the general population - and, the articles heavily implied - conservatives worried about people spending their welfare money on drugs were therefore unscientific and bigoted. None of the stories mentioned that the “test” was just asking the welfare recipients whether they were taking drugs, with the threat of taking their welfare away if they said yes, and no attempt to check whether or not they were lying. A few of the articles mentioned a different attempt at urine drug tests, which only a few recipients failed - but didn’t mention that they had the option of not taking the drug tests and that many people (probably including all the drug users) chose not to take it. Some would say this is important context! But again, there are no outright lies - 0.01% was the true result of this (very stupid) test.