It’s easy to assume that air pollution is a relic of America’s industrial past: a phenomenon that belonged to the age of steel mills and smog-choked skylines. But drive through the petrochemical corridor of Louisiana, or the refinery-lined neighb...
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” These are the 26 words that serve as the foundation for many policy and jud...
Last year, Elon Musk proclaimed that AI was already smarter than the smartest person in the world, and soon will be smarter than all of the smartest people in the world collectively. No matter how one might feel about this statement, it is undeniable...
If you were visiting Georgia Tech on October 15th of this year, you would have likely been amazed by one of the most revolutionary tech shows of our time. This was not another conference by Apple or its competitors showing another variation of a touc...
If you were visiting Georgia Tech on October 15th of this year, you would have likely been amazed by one of the most revolutionary tech shows of our time. This was not another conference by Apple or its competitors showing another variation of a touc...
Nearly all Brown students are familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction. Taught in even the most cursory of Cold War histories, this theory refers to a form of deterrence whereby the overwhelming and reciprocal threat of destruction p...
Nearly all Brown students are familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction. Taught in even the most cursory of Cold War histories, this theory refers to a form of deterrence whereby the overwhelming and reciprocal threat of destruction p...
The civil rights of convicted felons are rarely considered important policy issues. At the risk of losing reelection, politicians often brush them aside. The implications of changing policy concerning a specific bloc of citizens without their consent...
The civil rights of convicted felons are rarely considered important policy issues. At the risk of losing reelection, politicians often brush them aside. The implications of changing policy concerning a specific bloc of citizens without their consent...
In an astonishing display of contrition, last Thursday President Obama apologized to Americans who are losing their health insurance plans as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In recent weeks the president has been the subje...
In an astonishing display of contrition, last Thursday President Obama apologized to Americans who are losing their health insurance plans as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In recent weeks the president has been the subje...
Although they forced the government into a partial shutdown, Tea Partiers still failed to strip the Affordable Care Act of funding – not that they thought they would. The coalition’s “fool’s errand,” however, successfully turned congres...
Although they forced the government into a partial shutdown, Tea Partiers still failed to strip the Affordable Care Act of funding – not that they thought they would. The coalition’s “fool’s errand,” however, successfully turned congres...
As noted by tenacious Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi in his 2010 book Griftopia (and reported here in the Atlantic), in 2008 the city of Chicago leased the entirety of their parking meters to a consortium of buyers led by Morgan Stanley. The pric...
As noted by tenacious Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi in his 2010 book Griftopia (and reported here in the Atlantic), in 2008 the city of Chicago leased the entirety of their parking meters to a consortium of buyers led by Morgan Stanley. The pric...
It’s hard to get a straight answer on the Affordable Care Act. Conversation on every component of the law is hugely partisan; Democrats say it will reform the flawed American health insurance industry and provide long overdue universal health care...
It’s hard to get a straight answer on the Affordable Care Act. Conversation on every component of the law is hugely partisan; Democrats say it will reform the flawed American health insurance industry and provide long overdue universal health care...
Local currency movements have become a trend in local economic development initiatives. These are currencies issued by a local entity for spending at local businesses. Community Currencies, such as Ithaca HOURS, Bay Bucks of Traverse City, Michigan...
Local currency movements have become a trend in local economic development initiatives. These are currencies issued by a local entity for spending at local businesses. Community Currencies, such as Ithaca HOURS, Bay Bucks of Traverse City, Michigan...
Protest songs have always been an important mode of political discourse. Easily produced and disseminated, good protest songs and the artists that create them can infiltrate mass consciousness and gain relevance beyond the realm of the strictly polit...
Protest songs have always been an important mode of political discourse. Easily produced and disseminated, good protest songs and the artists that create them can infiltrate mass consciousness and gain relevance beyond the realm of the strictly polit...
Hello, readers! Welcome to part two of my Town of Greece v. Galloway coverage. Two weeks ago, I previewed the case and offered a crash course in the Supreme Court’s approach to the Establishment Clause, or the portion in the First Amendment that c...
Hello, readers! Welcome to part two of my Town of Greece v. Galloway coverage. Two weeks ago, I previewed the case and offered a crash course in the Supreme Court’s approach to the Establishment Clause, or the portion in the First Amendment that c...
Carol Bond was initially thrilled when she learned her friend, Myrlinda Haynes, was pregnant. She was understandably a little less thrilled when she discovered that her husband, who had been having an affair with Haynes, was the father. So, naturally...
Carol Bond was initially thrilled when she learned her friend, Myrlinda Haynes, was pregnant. She was understandably a little less thrilled when she discovered that her husband, who had been having an affair with Haynes, was the father. So, naturally...
As an undergraduate, the FBI closing of the Silk Road anonymous marketplace may not affect you beyond your drug supply or your easy purchase of another fake ID. But if you’re a political dissident in China, or a currency trader in London, the loss ...
As an undergraduate, the FBI closing of the Silk Road anonymous marketplace may not affect you beyond your drug supply or your easy purchase of another fake ID. But if you’re a political dissident in China, or a currency trader in London, the loss ...