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How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

Posted on December 20, 2019
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The irony of the ethical scandal enveloping Joichi Ito, the former director of the MIT Media Lab, is that he used to lead academic initiatives on ethics.

We Scoured the Streets of Rio de Janeiro After Gun Fights. Here’s the Story the Bullet Shells Tell.

Posted on December 16, 2019
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Last year, over the course of 100 days, The Intercept Brasil combed 27 neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro in the immediate aftermath of gun battles. The bounty: 137 spent ammunition casings, or shells. High-powered shootouts are not unusual in Brazil.

The Wax and Wane of J Street’s Influence Over U.S.-Israel Policy

Posted on December 14, 2019
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Jeremy Ben-Ami has a story he tells about why he started the liberal, pro-Israel group J Street a decade ago. , when his great-grandparents fled persecution in Russia and emigrated to “what was then Palestine.” According to family lore, his father was the first boy ever born in Tel Aviv, and he would go on to join the right-wing terror group Irgun, fighting for Israel’s independence.

By Any Measure, Capital Punishment Is a Failed Policy

Posted on December 3, 2019
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The death penalty, they say, is dying. And in many important respects, this is true. Support for capital punishment has by conservatives, who have spearheaded repeal efforts in a number of states, most recently and energetically in Wyoming. This trend is partly rooted in research that continues to expose enduring problems with the death penalty, particularly its , signaling the start of the “modern” death penalty era. Although the past few decades have ushered in significant reforms — such as improvements in the quality of capital defense, a major factor in reducing new death sentences — states continue to carry out executions in the face of serious questions about the influence of racism, mental illness, or intellectual disability; biased, shoddy, or simply incomplete police investigations; prosecutorial misconduct and woefully deficient defense lawyering; and the persistent influence of junk forensic science. The failure to grapple with these problems has high stakes.

What Happens When a Reform Prosecutor Stands Up to the Death Penalty

Posted on December 3, 2019
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Standing behind a podium outside the Orlando courthouse, Aramis Ayala, the elected state prosecuting attorney for Florida’s Orange and Osceola counties, announced that after extensive research, discussion, and reflection, she had decided that she could no longer seek the death penalty for defendants charged by her office.

A Push to Repeal the Death Penalty Gains Ground Across the Western United States

Posted on December 3, 2019
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It was a snowy, windy, frigid spring day in Cheyenne, and we were freezing, standing on a sidewalk outside the Wyoming Supreme Court. The carillon of a nearby church began to chime precisely as Marguerite Herman, a veteran lobbyist with the League of Women Voters of Wyoming, announced that the press conference would begin. “Welcome, everyone, on a very gray, overcast day,” Herman began cheerfully as the bells continued to ring.

Race Looms Ever Larger as Death Sentences Decline

Posted on December 3, 2019
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As he was strapped to the gurney in the Texas death chamber, Henry Martinez Porter prepared to deliver his last words. The execution had been scheduled for midnight.

 

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