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police The glaring difference between British and American cop shows Thom Dunn

late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow

war Ebola outbreak in Congo: things are getting worse Séamus Bellamy

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow

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