Free Thing of the Week: A Future in Commons: A Tribute to Bassel Khartabil
A tribute to the remarkable spirit of Bassel Khartabil from the people at Disquiet Junto.
Genome Cloaking Preserves Privacy While Enabling Diagnosis
How can genome sequencing provide useful information without sacrificing privacy? Dr. Ricki Lewis investigates.
Amazon in Review: What the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Tells Us About Antitrust Law
Enforcement of antitrust in the United States has been weak for decades. Do we need something else? Harold Feld writes.
Sunday Comics
Rotating head, friends in high places
No need to guess what he’s got in that briefcase
A mind like a gin-trap, one swollen ankle
Sunday Comics try to look on the bright side of things
Skin Lightening: The Dangerous Obsession That’s Worth Billions
Millions of people across the world want to make their skin lighter – but the treatments they use can be dangerous. Mary-Rose Abraham meets beauticians, dermatologists and their clients to walk the line between aesthetic choice and racial prejudice.
Encounters with Anonymous Photographs: Democracy in Silver
Omar Willey returns with another picture and another essay about history and leisure.
Profit Maximization is Easy: Invest in Violence
Stimulating the economy? Choose the one fail-safe technique: invest in violence. Robert Burrowes writes.
In Praise of The Tennis Court Pluralist: Why John Ashbery Mattered
Robert Lashley’s tribute to the late, great John Ashbery.
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