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Signing Critical Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?
How can young scientists be critical when they fear retaliation for their ideas? Hilda Bastian has some thoughts.
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Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one. Sophia Cross writes.
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Sunday Comics
Who said mama’s little baby likes sho’t’ning bread? Who said mama’s little baby likes sho’t’ning sho’t’ning bread? That’s some lie some white man up and said. Mama’s little baby don’t like no sho’t’ning bread! Mama’s little baby likes Sundays! Mama’s little baby likes Comics! Mama’s…
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How Congress Censored the Internet
The largest network of anti-trafficking organizations were against it. The Department of Justice was against it. But Congress passed SESTA/FOSTA anyway. Elliot Harmon on what the sex trafficking bill really does. Hint: it doesn’t help fight trafficking.
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Steel Tariffs and Doctors: A Teachable Moment
Dean Baker takes another tack on tariffs: What if the medical profession was “free trade”?
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How They Sold the Iraq War
The war on Iraq was a propaganda war where loaded phrases, such as “weapons of mass destruction” and “rogue state” were hurled like precision weapons at the target audience: us. Blair paid a price for his grandiose puffery. Bush has skated freely through the tempest.…
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How Health and Education Journalists Can Turn Privacy Laws to Their Advantage
Government records officers frequently cite privacy restrictions to deny data requests. Annie Waldman offers some tips on how to overcome or sidestep these barriers.
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Why Isn’t Mexico’s Government Surveillance Investigation Moving Forward?
Mexico’s #SpyGovernment case dropped like a bomb in 2016, with demands for accountability and transparency. So why haven’t the government done anything about it? Giovanna Salazar reports.
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Sunday Comics
I’m alone, sitting with my empty glass. My four walls follow me through my past. I was on a Paris train, I emerged in London rain and…you were waiting there reading the Sunday Comics. I remember searching for the perfect words…
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