Lock and load - why the US is losing the plot
Large sections of the great American public appear to have gone nuts. Spike columnist Jon Marsh investigates. It's getting ugly out there. As President Barack Obama wrestles with a host of issues largely inherited from the administration of George Bush, the America that most of us know and love seems to be disappearing before our very eyes. The political landscape is covered by a toxic mist populated by a freaky combination of Fox News presenter Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, representatives of the Tea Party movement, the Christian Right... Read More

Church of Scientology's Cult of Greed and Power
By all appearances, Noah Lottick had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in cash, virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology... Read More

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