Year: 2015
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Is the Gun Lobby’s Power Overstated?
The National Rifle Association and other anti-gun-control groups are formidable, but political trends may be loosening their grip on lawmakers.
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Commonality: Part One – Permissions Slip
Our publisher gets serious about the commons in this multi-part series. In Part one of the series, Omar Willey discusses why sharing fails among people.
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The View from Nathan’s Bus: Michael Jackson
Nathan Vass returns to grace the pages of the Star with a four-part series detailing one last shift on the 7. Part 1: An introduction.
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1984 Revisited
Former MP for Cambridge Julian Huppert ruminates on just how close Britain already is to Orwell…and Joseph Heller.
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Hundreds of Canadian Artists Slam Anti-Terror Law for Its “Direct Attack on Creative Arts, Free Expression”
Signatories inlcuding Margaret Atwood write that C-51 “gives the government carte blanche to suppress any voice they don’t like.” Andrea Germanos writes.
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Bootstrapping Social Change With a Guaranteed Income
Reviving an American idea: R.V. Murphy considers liberal, libertarian and conservative arguments for a guaranteed basic income.
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Adblockers and Innovative Ad Companies are Working Together to Build a More Privacy-Friendly Web
Adblockers help to secure your privacy. Could an advertising model that actually respects your privacy work together with adblockers? Peter Eckersley writes.
