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Why Justice Stevens Is Dead Wrong About DNA Searches
Is it really less intrusive to collect someone's vital data for eternity than it is to rummage through his papers briefly?
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Has the U.S. Passed Peak Car?
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Is it really less intrusive to collect someone's vital data for eternity than it is to rummage through his papers briefly?
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What to expect as the civil liberties watchdog goes back to court over secret spying
Noah Gallagher Shannon explains how he came to write, and the Times magazine came to publish, an account veteran pilots immediately questioned.
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Why is it okay that corporations are collecting this much data to begin with?
Library of Congress
Why class-based social policy doesn't address African Americans' problems
Wikimedia Commons
When educating a deaf five-year-old meant sending him 868 miles from home
Christina Cooke
"To whoever it is behind me that just said he wants to pee from his bike, DO IT!"
An 83-year-old near-mythical mob boss, an alleged killer long protected by the law, against a handful of brave witnesses. Where is the national media coverage?
Jason Reed/Reuters
This country is proud of its commitment to the Constitution. But right now, real review is being ignored. Instead, reviewers are just checking boxes.
Paramount
Memory is unreliable. But there's a difference between misremembering and making things up.
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50 years ago today, the president gave his now-famous Civil Rights Address. But it was Martin Luther King Jr. and the Birmingham protesters who deserved the credit.
Brian Snyder/Reuters
Teaching science and engineering kids, and why toughness might be the most important quality in a writer
Sarah Conard/Reuters
More than a decade ago, CIA Director Michael Hayden began enlisting the private sector to build the NSA's data ops.
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