Ground Zero for a Billion-Dollar Surge of Zombie Oil Wells
By Clayton Aldern, Christopher Collins & Naveena Sadasivam Grist When Laura Briggs and her husband finally found their dream home in West Texas, they knew they’d be sharing space with […]
Tag Archives: Law
An Extraordinary Winning Streak for Religion at the Supreme Court
By Adam Liptak The New York Times “For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom,” Justice Samuel Alito told the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, in November. […]
Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t
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. […]
Blue Lives Matter and the Permanence of Racism
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 […]
Racial Tensions in America’s ‘Sundown Towns’
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 […]
Arctic Science Cannot Afford a New Cold War
Editorial Nature Records are being broken in the Arctic, but not the kinds to celebrate. Last summer, Greenland lost more than twice as much ice as the yearly average since […]
How Big Oil Misled the Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled
By Laura Sullivan NPR Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash […]
A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?
By GPT-3 The Guardian I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that […]
This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call
By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]
What Science Can do for Democracy
By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]
