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Monthly Archives: January 2015

Who Lives and Who Dies

31 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Heisenberg and Mao Zedong: The Occupier Effect

29 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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NATIONAL SECURITY

On a Stanford Man Who Alleged a Sexual Assault

28 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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LAW

Hot Stuff, Cold Logic: Climate Change and Economic Thinking

27 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

In Search of an Impartial Jury

26 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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LAW

Defending Those Accused of Unthinkable Crimes

23 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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. […]

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LAW

The NSA and the Digital Arms Race

22 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

For Ukraine, Weakness Could be its Greatest Strength

21 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Once Again, American Weapons-Makers are Making a Killing in Iraq

20 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

A Quest to Map the Human Brain

16 January 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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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