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After 9/11, We Were All Judith Miller
By Raymond Bonner
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The Biggest Outrage in Atlanta’s Crazy Teacher Cheating Case
One of the defining issues of this millennium has been the bifurcation of the criminal. By David Dayen
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The trolley and the psychopath
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A trolley carrying five school children is headed for a cliff. You happen to be standing at the switch, and you could save their lives by diverting the trolley to another track. But there he is – an innocent fat man, picking daisies on that second track, oblivious to the rolling thunder (potentially) hurtling his way... By Sally Adee
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Do Killer Robots Violate Human Rights?
When machines are anthropomorphized, we risk applying a human standard that should not apply to mere tools.
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Is Downloading Really Stealing? The Ethics of Digital Piracy
You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a television. But what about downloading pirated films? Is intellectual property infringement really morally equivalent with common theft, such as snatching someone's handbag? Read philosopher Christian Barry's take on this issue.
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Oklahoma’s Key Expert in Supreme Court Lethal Injection Case Did His Research on Drugs.com
How the Supreme Court case over lethal injection shows it’s becoming nearly impossible to find experts to defend the practice.
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Meet The Only Person Being Punished After The Senate Torture Report
Five months after the Senate Intelligence Committee released its gruesome report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, someone is finally paying steep professional consequences. Except...
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What the United States Owes Warren Weinstein
The American hostage died in a "signature" drone strike. Those strikes should end. By David Rohde.
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Starbucks wants you to feel good about drinking up California's precious water
The coffee giant says it's solving the world's water problems—yet it's profiting off the Golden State's dwindling reserves.
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Colombia just legalized euthanasia. Here's why that's a big deal
It's highly controversial: Only 3 other countries allow doctors to actually administer their patients' requested lethal dose.
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Report Says American Psychological Association Collaborated on Torture Justification
The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. Bush to bolster a legal and ethical justification for the torture of prisoners... By James Risen
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The Lasting Pain from Vietnam Silence
Many reflections on America’s final days in Vietnam miss the point, pondering whether the war could have been won or lamenting the fate of U.S. collaborators left behind. The bigger questions are why did the U.S. go to war and why wasn’t the bloodletting stopped sooner, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern reflects.
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The Kingpin Strategy
Assassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed, 1990-2015. By Andrew Cockburn
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UN suspension of sexual abuse report whistleblower is unlawful, tribunal rules
Judge orders UN to lift suspension of Anders Kompass, who leaked internal UN report on alleged abuse of children by French troops in Central African Republic
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The Fraud of War
U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have stolen tens of millions through bribery, theft, and rigged contracts.
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The Destruction of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
In many states that elect judges, a surge in campaign contributions has eroded confidence in the courts. Wisconsin has been home to a particularly ignominious saga.
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Engineers of addiction
Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks.
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Moral injury — the quiet epidemic of soldiers haunted by what they did during wartime
By Amanda Taub
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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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How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without ever charging him with a crime
The DEA Asset Forfeiture Program’s unofficial logo: “You make it, we’ll take it.”
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