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How Syrians Saved an Ancient Seedbank From Civil War
When civil war broke out in Syria, Ahmed Amri immediately thought about seeds. Specifically, 141,000 packets of them sitting in cold storage 19 miles south of Aleppo...
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Einstein as a Jew and a Philosopher. By Freeman Dyson
Why would anybody want to write another book about Albert Einstein? Why would anybody want to read it? These are two separate questions, but both of them have satisfactory answers. In spite of the large number of books already written about Einstein, there is still room for one more.
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As U.S. gay-marriage battle looms, attorneys fight over fees
As a historic constitutional showdown over gay marriage looms this month at the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys are fighting over another bitterly disputed issue: their fees.
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How Corporate Lobbyists Conquered American Democracy
Business didn't always have so much power in Washington.
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“Aaron’s Law” Is Back to Try to Reform Overbroad US Hacking Laws
Lawmakers are trying once again to reform the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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The air is dark and asthma is deadly along the Mexico border
A study commissioned by Reveal has found that diesel and gas exhaust are the most significant contributors to the California Imperial Valley’s polluted air, most likely a combination of traffic and the lines of idling vehicles...
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Elizabeth Warren on Obama's trade deal: "He won't put the facts out there"
In dueling MSNBC segments, Elizabeth Warren and President Obama call each other out over the president's massive Asia trade deal.
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Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies
Once upon a time, a journalist never gave up a confidential source. When someone comes forward, anonymously, to inform the public, it’s better to risk time incarcerated than give them up. This ethical responsibility was also a practical and professional necessity...
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Nonviolence as Compliance in Baltimore
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. By Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Will the Courts Finally Block Texas’ Worst-in-the-Nation Voter-ID Law?
Longtime voters are being turned away from the polls by Texas’ voter-ID law
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Keeping The Republic
“We can’t wait for some deus ex machina to save our republic. Our republic is ours to save. Or better, it is only ours if we save it.”
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Few Conservatives Take Police Abuses Seriously
There is overwhelming evidence of widespread civil-rights violations and unlawful brutality. Yet the movement's reflex is still to ignore or deny the problem. By Conor Friedersdorf
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What Two Programmers Have Revealed So Far About Seattle Police Officers Who Are Still in Uniform
For most of their lives, Eric Rachner and Phil Mocek had no strong feelings about police. Mocek, who grew up in Kansas, said he regarded police officers as honorable civil servants, like firefighters...
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Who and what was Aaron Swartz?
Persecuted little guy, or powerful revolutionary – what sort of wunderkind was Aaron Swartz? By Ed Lake
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Court Vindicates Edward Snowden
The decision vindicates his contention that the NSA's metadata collection program is unlawful. (May 7, 2015)
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Game theory’s cure for corruption
Seen through game theory, cancer and police corruption are pretty much the same thing. And for one of them, there’s a cure. By Suzanne Sadedin
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Husband-and-wife scientists take on black muck clogging Chesapeake Bay
Using three experimental tanks at the Naval Academy, they’re attacking the gunk as if it were in a septic tank.
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The Dark Side of Police Reform
The costs and benefits of modern American policing have not been distributed evenly.
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The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police
This activist demanded millions of surveillance videos from the Seattle police. They handed him the data — and a job.
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Want to end mass incarceration? Stop blindly reelecting your local prosecutor
As crime dropped, US prosecutors locked up more people — and Americans kept reelecting them.
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