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Gamers and Activists—It’s About Social Change
From computer screens to street play, these three game developers are redefining the medium by revealing a powerful new social potential in games.
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40 Years After Vietnam, Blue Water Navy Vets Still Fighting for Agent Orange Compensation
Though most didn’t step foot in Vietnam, some 90,000 Navy vets who served offshore may have been exposed to the chemical brew and seek benefits. The battle is playing out in the courts and in Congress. It boils down to a comma.
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China’s New Normal Crushed by Business as Usual
So much depends upon a red growth economy, glazed with presumptions, beside the white knuckle stockbrokers. Deric Gruen reports.
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An Informed Electorate
On the premise of an informed electorate rests the foundation of democracy. Jon Ravenscroft plays Winston Churchill in this piece about what constitutes information.
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Colleges Flush with Cash Saddle Poorest Students With Debt
Why do colleges with huge endowments fail to spend them on poor students? Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei explore.
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First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email
A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag. Julia Angwin reports.
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Fast, Faster, Fastest: Why the Rush?
Much is lost in our obsession with speed. Ralph Nader considers.
