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The courts are saying that down-and-out Americans have a right to seek curbside alms despite efforts to ban the practice. Two scholars have come up with an alternative to anti-panhandling ordinances.
Puerto Ricans in favor of independence protest after a referendum was held on the island’s status.
AP Photo/Carlos Giusti
Would Abraham Lincoln ever have become president if he didn't stumble into a dry goods store in Springfield, Illinois, and strike up a friendship with its owner, Joshua Speed?
Immigration activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington.
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
States once used their constitutional authority to argue in defense of slavery. Today, states can make a similar argument to protect immigrants from deportation, writes a legal scholar.
A saxophone player busks in New York: as technology transforms their industry, quite a lot of musicians are leaving the field.
Michael Tapp
Whenever you listen to a streamed song, like it but don't buy it and instead stream it again, you are casting a vote for the future nonexistence of professional musicians.
How do you defend yourself in virtual reality?
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Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren't real. But whenever people are interacting, it's all real.
George Brandis (centre) was ‘the guest’ of the co-ordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Wiranto (right), during a recent visit to Indonesia.
Matius Murib
Here’s the glaring omission in George Brandis' list of issues raised recently with Indonesian President Joko Widodo: human rights.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer records 265 deaths of suspected criminals and drug users between June 30, the day Rodrigo Duterte assumed office, and July 18.
Reuters/Czar Dancel
Entre l’accord du 23 juin 1971 sur l’adhésion du Royaume-Uni dans la CEE et le référendum sur l’UE du 23 juin 2016, deux époques de l’histoire politique britannique et européenne se font face.
A woman writes on a cross placed in honor of the victims of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub.
Jim Young/Reuters
The recent anti-gay comments by Indonesian public officials may inspire militant Islamists with a propensity for violence to physically harm LGBT people.
After releasing five Papuan political prisoners in May, President Joko Widodo declared Papua open to foreign media. But challenges to media freedom in Papua remain.
Antara News Agency
Although Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared Papua open for foreign media in May this year, government obstacles to access the restive region linger.
In the era of wearable technology, we live as devices of our own devices.
flickr/Keoni Cabral
To be good global citizens, we must stop churning through energy-hungry devices. Earth cannot cope with the burdens, including mountains of e-waste, that electronic consumerism creates.
Run a study again and again – should the results hit the same bull’s-eye every time?
Richard Matthews
The field of psychology is trying to absorb a recent big study that was able to replicate only 36 out of 100 major research papers. That finding is an issue, but maybe not for the reason you think.
Levees in New Orleans were unable to prevent flooding during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA
