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Weekly E-Book: From Dust to Digital
Preventing analog recordings, books and other records from destruction is one of the great duties of digital technology. This week we give you a glimpse of the things that can be done with a little open access and a lot of will.
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The 60s Can’t Save Us, Nor Can The Man in the High Castle
Be careful what you wish for is the lesson of Max Zahn’s essay on the new Amazon series and its revisionist alternate history.
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The Precariat: A New Term for Economic Violence
We know about the proletariat, but what about the precariat? Silvia Swinden writes.
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We’re All Paying for the Unaccountability of So-Called Experts Who Screwed Up the World Economy
The eurozone crisis stands out as a work of art in the annals of bad neoliberal policy. How did it happen? Mark Weisbrot gives you an excerpt from his new book, Failed: What the ‘Experts’ Got Wrong about the Global Economy.
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Sunday Comics
Our ongoing exhibit of Sunday morning casual depravity created by the usual gang of idiots.
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Sadness is My Favorite
Kelly J. Baker considers the presence of emotion is children’s movies and in the experiences of childhood itself.
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From the Publisher: Our Fourth Birthday
The Star turns four, giving our publisher a reason to get all reflective and stuff.
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A Ban on CD Ripping Marks 2015’s Low Point in International Copyright
2015 was an interesting year for copyright reform. Jeremy Malcolm explains just how interesting.
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Nightmares of 1965
As part of their early schooling, Indonesians in the Soeharto era were deliberately traumatized by the state. An anonymous contributor relates her personal tale.
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An Unbelievable Story of Rape
An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where the story begins in this deep-dig piece from Marshall Project and ProPublica reporters T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong.
