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History The Nazis and your privacy Roderick Miller

law 13 dead in California bar after gunman opens fire (Update: shooter identified) Rob Beschizza

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Business California's charter schools: hundreds of millions of tax dollars for wasteful, redundant, low-quality education Cory Doctorow

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Science The emergence of science hacking in Madagascar Ariel Waldman