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States Turn Their Backs on Criminal Justice Reform
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE to avoid the “strange bedfellows” cliché when reading about the criminal justice reform movement in the 2010s.
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July 2024
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Florida's Citrus Slaughter
MANY SOUTH FLORIDA residents remember with grief a day in the early ’00s when the government came for their citrus trees.
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July 2024
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Q&A Bryan Caplan
BRYAN CAPLAN IS known for his unconventional approach to tackling big issues.
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July 2024
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Republican Defenders of Abortion in Arizona
THOUGH STILL ON the books, Arizona’s near-total ban on abortion was buried deep in the state’s history—until recently.
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July 2024
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New York's Predictable Legal Pot 'Disaster'
AS OF EARLY May, more than three years after New York legalized recreational marijuana, just 119 licensed dispensaries were serving that market in the entire state.
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July 2024
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The Black Panther Who Was Banned From the Ballot
DONALD TRUMP WAS not the first celebrity presidential candidate who could reasonably be accused of insurrection against the United States.
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July 2024
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SWAT Goes to College
A GRAY-HAIRED DARTMOUTH professor was tackled, zip-tied, and detained on May 1 along with about 90 other protesters.
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July 2024
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50 Years of D&D: You Can't Copyright Fun
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the granddaddy of tabletop role-playing games and one of the urtexts of nerd culture.
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May 2024
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The Alzheimer's Test You're Not Allowed To Have
MILLIONS FACE THE shadow of Alzheimer’s, a disease that steals memories and devastates lives.
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June 2024
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An Early Test for Alzheimer's
SHOULD YOU BE allowed to take a blood test that could tell you if you’re already at risk of Alzheimer’s disease? Last year, Quest Diagnostics began offering a consumer-initiated blood test for $399 (not covered by insurance) that detects the buildup of proteins associated with the development of Alzheimer’s in customers’ plasma.
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June 2024
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Caging Lab-Grown Meat
LAB-GROWN MEAT IS a scientific marvel. We’ve managed, through pure human ingenuity, to create something that looks like meat, cooks like meat, tastes pretty much like meat, and comes from animal cells—yet doesn’t require the slaughter of a single living animal.
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June 2024
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The 'Migrant Crime' Wave, Debunked
“THE UNITED STATES is being overrun by the Biden migrant crime,” said former President Donald Trump during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in February. “It’s a new form of vicious violation to our country.”
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June 2024
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Don't Co-Parent With Congress
I’M ALWAYS PUZZLED when I hear other parents say they’re worried about the effects social media might be having on their children.
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June 2024
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Is Chinese Garlic a Threat to National Security?
IS A STAPLE ingredient in your kitchen secretly undermining American sovereignty? Sen. Rick Scott (R–Fla.) seems to believe so.
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June 2024
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Launch Approved? Not So Fast, Says Sluggish FAA
MOST AMERICANS ARE eager to see NASA astronauts return to the moon and push humanity’s boundaries with future exploration of Mars.
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June 2024
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SpaceX Edges Closer to the Moon
ARTEMIS II IS a crewed moon flyby mission, the first in a series of missions meant to get American astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars.
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June 2024
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Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles
Jonathan Haidt’s clever, insufficient case against smartphones
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June 2024
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The Complicated History of the Spy in Your Pocket
AOOP PULLED over Ivan Lopez in Somerton, Arizona, a small town near the Mexican border.
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June 2024
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THE FUTURE OF PORN IS CONSENSUAL DEEPFAKES
THE CASE FOR CONSENSUAL CONCEPT CAPTURE
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June 2024
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Wicked Problems Remain
REVOLUTIONARY NEW TECHNOLOGIES WILL NEVER REPLACE THE NEED FOR MARKETS.
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June 2024
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THE POWERFUL UNPREDICTABILITY OF AI
Physicist and engineer Stephen Wolfram on whether artificial intelligence can fix science, regulation, and innovation
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June 2024
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THE GREAT BLACK POPE AND ASIAN NAZI DEBACLE OF 2024
EXCITING NEW Al TOOLS ARE STILL BEING SHAPED BY HUMAN BEINGS.
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June 2024
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AI Is Like Our Descendants
AS HUMANITY HAS advanced, we have slowly become able to purposely design more parts of our world and ourselves.
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June 2024
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ΑΙ WARFARE IS BORING BUT DEADLY
BUREAUCRATS IN CUBICLES WILL KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN TERMINATOR ROBOTS WILL.
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June 2024
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AI's Cozy Crony Capitalism
WHAT HAPPENS TO REGULATION WHEN THE BAPTISTS ARE ALSO THE BOOTLEGGERS?
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June 2024
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THE CASE OF THE AI-GENERATED GIANT RAT PENIS
HOW DID AN OBVIOUSLY FABRICATED ARTICLE END UP IN A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL?
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June 2024
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THE NIGHT I ASKED CHATGPT HOW TO BUILD A BOMB
YES, YOU CAN TRICK THE BOT INTO GIVING YOU INFORMATION IT’S SUPPOSED TO KEEP TOITSELF. NO, THAT ISN’T SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
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June 2024
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LONG LIVE THE FIVEPARAGRAPH ESSAY?
AI WRITES A PRETTY GOOD ANALYSIS OF 1984.
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June 2024
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THE FUTURE OF AI IS HELPING US DISCOVER THE PAST
HISTORICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH ARE BEING REVAMPED BY Al.
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June 2024
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IN THE AI ECONOMY, THERE WILL BE ZERO PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT
THE DEMAND FOR INTELLIGENCE AND LABOR WILL ALWAYS BE GREATER THAN THE SUPPLY.
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