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Peter Maass | How Lachlan Murdoch Went From Studying Philosophy at Princeton to Exploiting White Nationalism at Fox News 
Lachlan Murdoch. (photo: Soohee Cho/The Intercept/Getty Images/AP)
Peter Maass, The Intercept
Maass writes: "Lachlan Murdoch represents an archetype of extremism that often escapes scrutiny, because he is not an on-the-barricades provocateur."
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Census hacking. (photo: Columbus Free Press)
Census hacking. (photo: Columbus Free Press)

2020 Census Likely Target of Hacking, Disinformation Campaigns, Officials Say
Tara Bahrampour, The Washington Post
Bahrampour writes: "With just a year to go before the 2020 Census, the U.S. government is urgently working to safeguard against hacking and disinformation campaigns as it perfects a plan to count about 330 million people largely online for the first time."
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Antifa protesters in Berkeley. (photo: Erin McCormick)
Antifa protesters in Berkeley. (photo: Erin McCormick)

Intelligence Report Appeared to Endorse View Leftwing Protesters Were 'Terrorists'
Jason Wilson, Guardian UK
Wilson writes: "An intelligence report produced for law enforcement agencies in the months before the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, in which a neo-Nazi killed one protester by driving a car into a crowd, appeared to endorse a view that leftist demonstrators were 'terrorists' and at least equally as responsible for street violence as white nationalists."
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Female students point out the absurdity of having a stricter dress code for young girls in school than the regulations around guns in the United States as part of the March for Our Lives in Philadelphia last year. (photo: Cory Clark/Getty Images)
Female students point out the absurdity of having a stricter dress code for young girls in school than the regulations around guns in the United States as part of the March for Our Lives in Philadelphia last year. (photo: Cory Clark/Getty Images)

Federal Judge Strikes Down Girls-Only School Dress Code as Unconstitutional
Sam Fulwood III, ThinkProgress
Fulwood writes: "Parents argued successfully that it was unfair to force their daughters to wear skirts that limited their ability to move freely at the charter school."
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Several cities in the South deny utility services to residents without government-issued IDs or Social Security numbers. (photo: Tetra Images/Getty Images)
Several cities in the South deny utility services to residents without government-issued IDs or Social Security numbers. (photo: Tetra Images/Getty Images)

Activists Sue LaGrange, Georgia, for Denying Water, Gas and Electricity to Undocumented Immigrants
Allison Salerno, In These Times
Salerno writes: "Denying services to residents who lack government-issued IDs is a common practice in small Southern cities."
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Supporters of AK Party wave flags in Istanbul, Turkey. (photo: Kemal Aslan/Reuters)
Supporters of AK Party wave flags in Istanbul, Turkey. (photo: Kemal Aslan/Reuters)

Erdogan Suffers Major Setbacks in Local Elections in Turkey's Big Cities
Orhan Coskun and Can Sezer, Reuters
Excerpt: "Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan suffered stunning setbacks in local elections as his ruling AK Party lost control of the capital Ankara for the first time since the party’s founding in 2001."
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A construction worker at the Monad Terrace luxury development, a high-rise in Miami Beach that has been designed to withstand several decades of climate change and sea level rise. (photo: Maria Alejandra Cardona/NPR)
A construction worker at the Monad Terrace luxury development, a high-rise in Miami Beach that has been designed to withstand several decades of climate change and sea level rise. (photo: Maria Alejandra Cardona/NPR)

Building for an Uncertain Future: Miami Residents Adapt to the Changing Climate
Ian Stewart and Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR
Excerpt: "Miami is projected to face anywhere from 1 to 3 feet of sea level rise by 2060, and as sea levels rise, higher ground inland has started to look more and more desirable."
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