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Monthly Archives: April 2017

Gerrymandering is Illegal, But Only Mathematicians can Prove It

17 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Erica Klarreich Wired Partisan gerrymandering—the practice of drawing voting districts to give one political party an unfair edge—is one of the few political issues that voters of all stripes find […]

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A Placebo President?

14 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tyler Cowen The American Interest When I ponder why the American electorate turned to such an unorthodox President as Donald Trump, I think first of the idea of control. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Regulation Won’t Kill the Internet

11 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Paul Ohm Harvard Law Review Forum There are many reasons people oppose government regulation of the various bits of software, hardware, and social glue that we call the internet. […]

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Russia’s View of the Arctic

10 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Morgane Fert-Malka World Policy What does Russia want? This is, increasingly, the question on everyone’s lips, and a host of Western commentators and policymakers have started looking at the Arctic as […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

The Survival Strategy of the Chinese Communist Party

7 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Bruce J. Dickson The Washington Quarterly China watchers are often obsessed with the prospects for regime change in that country. During the post-Mao period in China, the ruling Chinese […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Hollowness of the Arguments of the FCC and FTC Chairmen Regarding Internet Consumer Privacy

7 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andreas Kuersten Jurist Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai and Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Maureen Ohlhausen begin their recent op-ed (a bull-headed defense […]

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There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet

5 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Thomas Beller The New Yorker Sometime before dawn on March 29th, not too many hours after Congress approved legislation that allows Internet-service providers to sell your browsing history to […]

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When States Apologize

4 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Edwin Battistella Aeon In May 2016, when Barack Obama visited Hiroshima, some speculated that the president of the United States might offer an apology, on behalf of his country, […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Search for the Truly Nonlethal Law Enforcement Weapon

3 April 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Robin Washington The Marshall Project In the new cop drama, “APB” (Monday nights on Fox), an Elon Musk-type billionaire engineer buys a beleaguered Chicago police precinct to avenge his […]

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