Who Lives and Who Dies
By Paul Farmer London Review of Books What is it like to be a passenger on a bus, or standing in a cheering crowd at the finishing line of a […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Heisenberg and Mao Zedong: The Occupier Effect
By Daniel R. Grazier Small Wars Journal What could a German theoretical physicist and a communist revolutionary possibly have in common? On the surface, nothing whatsoever. Dig a little deeper […]
On a Stanford Man Who Alleged a Sexual Assault
By Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Earlier this month, Stanford University senior Justin Brown published an opinion article in The Stanford Daily claiming that he was sexually assaulted by a female […]
Hot Stuff, Cold Logic: Climate Change and Economic Thinking
By Richard Tol The American Interest Climate change is sometimes called humanity’s biggest problem. Ban Ki-moon, Christine Lagarde, and John Kerry have all said as much recently. The mainstream Western […]
In Search of an Impartial Jury
By Kate Wheeling Pacific Standard Who should decide the fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing? The same question can be asked in Colorado, where […]
Defending Those Accused of Unthinkable Crimes
By Scott Helman The Boston Globe Just before 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 8, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner got out of a taxi at a Safeway supermarket north of Tucson. […]
The NSA and the Digital Arms Race
By Jacob Appelbaum, Aaron Gibson, Claudio Guarnieri, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Leif Ryge, Hilmar Schmundt, & Michael Sontheimer Der Spiegel Normally, internship applicants need to have polished resumes, with […]
For Ukraine, Weakness Could be its Greatest Strength
By Samuel Charap & Tymofiy Mylovanov The National Interest The United States and the EU have demonstrated significant commitment to Ukraine’s success since the Maidan revolution. However, no Western leader has […]
Once Again, American Weapons-Makers are Making a Killing in Iraq
By Peter Van Buren Mother Jones The current American war in Iraq is a struggle in search of a goal. It began in August as a humanitarian intervention, morphed into […]
A Quest to Map the Human Brain
By Gareth Cook The New York Times Magazine In 2005, Sebastian Seung suffered the academic equivalent of an existential crisis. More than a decade earlier, with a Ph.D. in theoretical […]
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