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Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t

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By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Unequal Before the Law

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By Matthew Clair The Nation This spring, graphic images of a white police officer digging his knee into George Floyd’s neck served as a catalyst to renew the mass social […]

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LAW

How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism

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By Elizabeth Dias & Ruth Graham The New York Times Before self-proclaimed members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched toward the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they stopped to […]

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LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Balancing China at the United Nations

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By Henrik B.L. Larsen War on the Rocks If the COVID-19 pandemic is to have any positive geopolitical impact whatsoever, it should be drawing full attention to China’s attempt to […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

What is the Internet Doing to Boomers’ Brains?

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By Michael Hobbes Huffpost The last time they spoke, John’s father accused him of being part of the deep state.  They have never exactly gelled politically — John, 38, is […]

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LAW

Recycling Meets Reality

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By M. Mitchell Waldrop Knowable Magazine If your neighborhood is like most locales in the United States, there’s a thing that’s hard to unsee once you notice: The trucks that […]

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LAW

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins

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By Wilfred Codrington III The Atlantic Is a color-blind political system possible under our Constitution? If it is, the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 did […]

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LAW

Blue Lives Matter and the Permanence of Racism

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By India Thusi Cornell Law Review Online It was fifteen years after the second millennium, and civil unrest rocked our nation’s cities following the police shootings of several unarmed Black […]

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LAW

Energy Deals are Creating a Powerful Alliance Between China and Russia

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By Vanand Meliksetian Oil Price The Chinese economic growth miracle is disrupting the global balance of power. President Trump’s trade war with China was the latest manifestation of Washington’s effort […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Racial Tensions in America’s ‘Sundown Towns’

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By Tim Sullivan & Noreen Nasir Associated Press Ask around this time-battered Midwestern town, with its empty storefronts, dusty antique shops and businesses that have migrated toward the interstate, and […]

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LAW

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