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The Decline and Fall of the Zuckerberg Empire
Max Read, New York Magazine
Read writes: "Mark Zuckerberg isn't the first person in human history to draw inspiration from Augustus Caesar, the founder of the Roman Empire, but he's one of a very few for whom the lessons of Augustus's reign have a concrete urgency."
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Max Read, New York Magazine
Read writes: "Mark Zuckerberg isn't the first person in human history to draw inspiration from Augustus Caesar, the founder of the Roman Empire, but he's one of a very few for whom the lessons of Augustus's reign have a concrete urgency."
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The border fence separating Nogales, Ariz. from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. In 2012 a Mexican teenager was shot and killed by a border patrol agent shooting through the fence. Last week, the agent was found not-guilty of involuntary manslaughter. (photo: Matt York/AP)
A Not-Guilty Verdict Absolves Border Patrol of Cross-Border Killing
Ana Adlerstein, NPR
Adlerstein writes: "Last week in Tucson, U.S. District Judge Raner Collins announced to a silent courtroom that Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz had been found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the killing of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez."
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Ana Adlerstein, NPR
Adlerstein writes: "Last week in Tucson, U.S. District Judge Raner Collins announced to a silent courtroom that Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz had been found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the killing of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez."
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The acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, has said that, as a senate candidate, he would spend every day in Washington pushing a pro-life policy. (photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
Revealed: Matthew Whitaker Favors Hardline Anti-Abortion Policies
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine writes: "Whitaker, a conservative Christian, endorsed 'personhood' bills that would effectively outlaw abortion, and said as a Senate candidate that he would spend every day in Washington pushing anti-abortion policy."
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Jon Swaine, Guardian UK
Swaine writes: "Whitaker, a conservative Christian, endorsed 'personhood' bills that would effectively outlaw abortion, and said as a Senate candidate that he would spend every day in Washington pushing anti-abortion policy."
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James Alex Fields Jr. stands ahead of a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12 August 2017. He is accused of an attack the same day that left Heather Heyer dead. (photo: Eze Amos/AP)
Charlottesville Suspect Goes on Trial for Murder
Lois Beckett, Guardian UK
Beckett writes: "The man who allegedly rammed a car into a crowd of protesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year is set to go to trial on Monday for the murder of Heather Heyer."
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Lois Beckett, Guardian UK
Beckett writes: "The man who allegedly rammed a car into a crowd of protesters during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year is set to go to trial on Monday for the murder of Heather Heyer."
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Christine Blasey Ford answers questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018. (photo: Melina Mara/Reuters)
Christine Blasey Ford Speaks Out About the Threats She's Faced
Amanda Arnold, The Cut
Arnold writes: "Blasey Ford, who has been keeping a relatively low profile since the Kavanaugh hearings in early October, opened up about her experience in an update last week."
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Amanda Arnold, The Cut
Arnold writes: "Blasey Ford, who has been keeping a relatively low profile since the Kavanaugh hearings in early October, opened up about her experience in an update last week."
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Domestic violence. (photo: Getty Images)
Over 100 Women Globally Are Killed Every Day by a Partner or Family Member, New UN Data Shows
Elham Khatami, ThinkProgress
Khatami writes: "More than 100 women throughout the world are killed every day by someone close to them, like a partner or family member, according to a new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime."
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Elham Khatami, ThinkProgress
Khatami writes: "More than 100 women throughout the world are killed every day by someone close to them, like a partner or family member, according to a new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime."
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Ron His Horse Is Thunder, a spokesperson for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, looks over a river during Dakota Access pipeline protests in 2016. (photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
Tribes Have Climate Wisdom - and Good Reason Not to Share It
Paola Rosa-Aquino, Grist
Rosa-Aquino writes: "Indigenous peoples comprise only 5 percent of the world's population, yet their lands encompass 22 percent of its surface. Eighty percent of the planet's biodiversity is on the lands where they live - and it may not be a coincidence."
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Paola Rosa-Aquino, Grist
Rosa-Aquino writes: "Indigenous peoples comprise only 5 percent of the world's population, yet their lands encompass 22 percent of its surface. Eighty percent of the planet's biodiversity is on the lands where they live - and it may not be a coincidence."
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