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How Do We Achieve an Open, Secure, Trustworthy, and Inclusive Internet?
The Global Commission on Internet Governance met in Mexico to ask an important question: How can everyone ensure that the Internet lives up to its egalitarian promises? Jeremy Malcolm explores their report.
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Sunday Comics
The Star’s Sunday Comics, standing up for the ideals the “other” Americans believe in: inclusion-ism and the questioning of the status quo.
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The Not-So-Innocent LEGO Brick
Exploring the history of the LEGO brick, Andreas Vilhelmsson is troubled by the increasing number of violent toys in the collection.
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Racial Bias and Arrest Tech
Of the many disappointing decisions about surveillance, the recent SCOTUS decision in Utah v Strieff disappoints more than most. Jennifer Lynch and Adam Schwartz reveal the racist bias in contemporary street surveillance.
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Does a Fitbit Make You More Active?
Peter Janiszewski looks at his wife’s Fitbit and asks how helpful it can really be.
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A Sideways Glance
And now for something completely different. Some young adult fiction by Amanda Lawrence Auverigne, in which two friends ask: is it love, or just low blood sugar?
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Populism: The Eternal Ideology
The revival of populist ideology across the Americas and Europe prompts this thought piece from two continents.


