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A Payday Built on Bad Policy
The new CLASSICS act is a cash grab for big record labels. Meredith Filak Rose lays out how the RIAA wants to put artists and audiences even further under their boots.
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Twenty Gene Variants and Transgender Identity: What Does It Mean?
A group of scientists at Augusta University are on the lookout for genetic data on transgender identity. But will genetic testing for transgender identity do harm or good? Dr. Ricki Lewis considers.
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Kit Bakke, Protest on Trial
Jeff Stevens reviews the brand-new and long-overdue book about the controversial 1970 Seattle Seven conspiracy trial.
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Sunday Comics
His last words were, “we don’t know anything, you don’t know anything, I don’t know anything about love. And Sunday Comics, they are nothing, I am nothing without love.”
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Here’s How Congress Should Respond to Facebook/Cambridge Analytica
Allie Bohm takes the legal route on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica blow-up.
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Why Good People Turn Bad Online
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies. Gaia Vince gives you the tour.
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Free Thing of the Week: Unsplash for iOS
Getting back to speed with our free stuff, we bring you a new free app from the folks at Unsplash.
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GET OFF MY LAWN or: My Final Futuristic Manifesto and Public Pronouncement (because, like I have anything to lose—a career, the esteem of my peers, the consignment of my collected works to the dustbin of history)
David Fewster returns to literature for his latest poetic crank case blues concerning the fate of Ursula LeGuin’s poetry and the UA 150 or whatever.
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High CEO Pay: It’s What Friends Are For
CEOs make 200-500 times as much as their workers. Why? Hint: it ain’t because they’re so valuable. Dean Baker reports.
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April 1, 1978: Rosco Louie Gallery
Seattle in the late 1970s was a place and time of great countercultural promise when Rosco Louie brought the shock. Jeff Stevens histories your macramé stridently.
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