{"id":1838,"date":"2020-01-24T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2020-12-21T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T07:18:36","slug":"curated-reading-list-for-cat-politics-law-crime-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/cat-reading-list\/politics-law-crime\/curated-reading-list-for-cat-politics-law-crime-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Curated Reading list for CAT &#8211; Politics\/Law\/Crime | 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/politics-law-crime-1-1.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">This post contains loads of articles categorised under Politics, Law and Crime. These are handpicked articles over the course of years for CAT Aspirants. This is the first of 2 posts. This post contains articles I had shared in 2018. Click on the following link to go to the next post: <a href=\"https:\/\/online.2iim.com\/cat-exam\/blogs\/cat-reading-list\/politics-law-crime\/curated-reading-list-for-cat-politics-law-crime-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">LINK here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"> Every Article will have a blurb, either written by me or an extract from the original post (mostly the latter) followed by the link to reach the article.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 50    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">&#8220;The beach between Tel Aviv and Jaffa fills with Palestinians from the West Bank. For many children this is the only time they get to visit the seaside, even though their homes in the Occupied Territories may be no more than twenty or thirty kilometres away. There are draconian restrictions on the movement of Palestinians living in the West Bank. Yet every year, during Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, and during Eid al-Adha, two months later, the Israeli authorities momentarily become \u2018humane\u2019, allowing Palestinians from the West Bank \u2013 but only those with security clearance, meaning no record of even the mildest political activity \u2013 a one-day ticket to Israel.&#8221;    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2P3DLfu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2P3DLfu (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2P3DLfu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 49 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But don\u2019t let jargon and legalese distract you: This may be the most important event in an enormously volatile part of the world since the end of the last century, with repercussions that will extend far beyond Kashmir itself. Most immediately, they will be felt throughout India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, but the long-term effects could ripple much farther afield..:&#8221; <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Km4GP2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Km4GP2 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Km4GP2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 48<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The great replacement can generally be understood as two core beliefs. The first is that \u201cwestern\u201d identity is under siege by massive waves of immigration from non-European\/non-white countries, resulting in a replacement of white European individuals via demographics. The second is that replacement has been orchestrated by a shadowy group as part of their grand plan to rule the world \u2013 which they will do by creating a completely racially homogenous society.&#8221; <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2OEIzrr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2OEIzrr (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2OEIzrr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 47<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonderful read on how the judicial system ignores a side of the argument due to judgements and pre-conceived notions. Really long but informative and well written read. &#8220;But two cities\u2014Detroit and Los Angeles\u2014allowed researchers to read thousands of pages of police reports and to interview detectives and prosecutors. What the researchers found is a subterranean river of chauvinism, where the fate of a rape case usually depends on the detective\u2019s or (less often) prosecutor\u2019s view of the victim\u2014not the alleged perpetrator.&#8221; <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Orw1DM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Orw1DM (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Orw1DM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 46<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When I started my stretch behind bars in 2002, I had never heard of Abbott. After I read his work, I came to identify with parts of his conflicted character, and I have at times taken inspiration from his writing. But I also resented how Abbott\u2019s actions after he was paroled cemented a mistrust of prison writers and prison writing programs at a time when public opinion was swinging away from the prevailing liberal consensus in favor of rehabilitation.&#8221;   <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Szv2Ql\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Szv2Ql (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Szv2Ql<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 45<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How will that process unfold and who will end up with how much? It\u2019s common for very wealthy couples to come to an agreement out of court, usually in the interest of privacy. But those who work with really, really rich people know from past experience that their divorces stand apart from those of regular folks.    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Lki7Ri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Lki7Ri (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Lki7Ri<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 44<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pablo Neruda is a Nobel price winning Poet from Chile, was a senator who went into hiding for long periods due to war and politics. Brilliant write-up on his life, excerpts from his poems and more likely a gateway into his experience.  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LdwKG7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LdwKG7 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LdwKG7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 43<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To have a Madisonian system with many factions that deter majorities, states would need to use a system of proportional representation in voting. Under such a rule, a party with about 10% support would receive around 10% of the seats in Congress, and Congress would need to form coalitions with many factions to pass legislation\u2014just as Madison wanted.    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/30kpgon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/30kpgon (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/30kpgon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 42<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To declare that America is \u201cnot a democracy\u201d is as useful as pointing out that it is not a monarchy, or that the Pope wears a funny hat.That Madison\u2019s own definition of a republic directly invokes democratic processes\u2014\u201ca small number of citizens elected by the rest\u201d\u2014makes it sufficiently clear to word-understanders that there was no hard line drawn between republican and democratic principles as an either\/or. The nation would be a republic, but a democratic republic. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2xB4zb7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2xB4zb7 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2xB4zb7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 41<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMishap at Gunsmith\u2019s: Gun Fires Accidentally; Man Next Door is Wounded.\u201d \u201cMishap\u201d and \u201caccidentally\u201d gave my father an out. \u201cMishap\u201d minimized all of it. \u201cAccidentally\u201d made it sound as if it were fate or God\u2019s will. \u201cGun fires accidentally\u201d was devoid of human agency, as if the gun had not been in my father\u2019s hand, or anyone\u2019s hand. \u201cMan next door is wounded\u201d used the passive voice. Again, the person holding the gun was nowhere to be found, as though the gun had behaved of its own accord. What readers were left with was this: fate caused a gun to go off and minimally injure a bystander. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Wl1wmu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Wl1wmu (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Wl1wmu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 40<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These female migrants to Syria are often presented\u2014and at times present themselves\u2014either as na\u00efve women who have been duped by male relatives or as willing participants in a terrorist movement.The majority of these women showed very little interest in getting involved in public activism, let alone its more militant or violent forms, and they did not present themselves as victims. Instead, their main concerns centered on domestic life and raising a family. They had opted to migrate to Syria because, as they said, they wanted \u201cto live under Islamic rule\u201d or \u201cin an Islamic state where you can freely practice your religion.\u201d   <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2KfSAaE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2KfSAaE (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2KfSAaE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 39<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I could understand why some felt the film was \u201cunbearable\u201d: certainly, the scenes of violence were brutal to watch. Yet what seemed hardest to bear was the sense of being rendered helpless as one bore witness to the reality of these violent lives and deaths, unframed by any narrative of hope or redemption.&#8221;   <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LI0Ang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LI0Ang (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2LI0Ang<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 38<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To avoid the appearance of this flight merely being a publicity stunt for the hotel, Doc came up with an inspired idea. The flight would be a fundraiser, in support of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. And anyone who wanted to guess how long the plane would stay in the air could send in their guess with a monetary contribution to the foundation. This would also qualify them for a chance to earn $10,000 if their guess was closest to the actual time the plane stayed in the air. Apparently, gambling is a-OK when it\u2019s in support of a noble cause.&#8221;  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Jba1cO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Jba1cO (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Jba1cO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 37<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s impossible to quantify just how many women are fighting for the group. Still, interviews with police forces in Mosul suggest they\u2019ve become a regular presence that no longer surprises, as it did two years ago. \u201cAfter ISIS fell in Mosul, we are worried about ISIS females more and more,\u201d Mosul\u2019s mayor, Zuhair Muhsin Mohammed al-Araji, told me this month&#8221;    <br><a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2V00snf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2V00snf (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2V00snf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 36<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This article is probably longer than a short story, smaller than a small novel. Wonderful writing. Brilliant details. Kept me engaged throughout. Must read. Probably would have to bookmark and keep coming back at it, if you can&#8217;t read this in one go. It took me more than an hour to finish this. Absolutely worth your time. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DopLEG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DopLEG (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DopLEG<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 35<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;India is facing information wars of an unprecedented nature and scale. Indians are bombarded with fake news and divisive propaganda on a near-constant basis from a wide range of sources, from television news to global platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. But unlike in the United States, where the focus has been on foreign-backed misinformation campaigns shaping elections and public discourse, the fake news circulating here isn\u2019t manufactured abroad.&#8221;    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2FIgNm8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2FIgNm8 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2FIgNm8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 34<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A few minutes into the episode, the broadcast was suddenly interrupted by \u201ca special bulletin of the Intercontinental Radio News,\u201d In a live broadcast from Grover\u2019s Mill, New Jersey, one reporter described the emergence of an alien from a Martian space-pod as \u201cthe most terrifying thing I\u2019ve ever witnessed.\u201d Moments later, many heard the Martians attack and kill policemen, farmers, and reporters live on the radio before the broadcast suddenly went silent only to return announcing that the aliens had also defeated a seven-thousand-strong militia force, taken control of the state\u2019s infrastructure, and invaded southeastern Pennsylvania.&#8221;  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2HtGzxE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2HtGzxE (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2HtGzxE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 33<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Had Donald Trump not been elected president\u2014reportedly by that accidental data wizard of Steve Bannon, his hapless colleagues at Cambridge Analytica, and a bunch of Russians who managed to use Facebook as it was always intended to be used\u2014the power of Silicon Valley might have remained a niche topic: good for nerdy Twitter banter on the renegade think-tank circuit but pretty useless for anything else.&#8221;&#8221;The worst, though, is still to come, she argues, as tech giants shift from predicting behavior to engineering it. \u201cIt is no longer enough to automate information flows about us,\u201d she warns; \u201cthe goal now is to automate us.\u201d&#8221; <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DvRRgp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DvRRgp (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DvRRgp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 32<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) calculated that 46 per cent of the planet now provides antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) free of charge. In those areas, if an HIV-positive person takes the drugs, he or she can be what is now known as undetectable and untransmittable. The medication reduces the level of virus in the body to the point where it cannot be seen by a standard test, and the risk of transmission is thought to be \u2018scientifically equivalent to zero\u2019, according to the authors of the huge PARTNER-2 study. However, this spectacular medical advance is irrelevant to the statute books in far too many countries and states. In the US, 11 states criminalise the transmission of HIV by spitting or biting, which is almost impossible to achieve. &#8220;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2E1k3cs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2E1k3cs (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2E1k3cs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 31<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As it happens, the Rao-Singh Budget of 1991 was not the first \u2018pathbreaking\u2019 one. Several previous budgets made a significant break with the past. More importantly, they came only after a political crisis, big or small. The bigger the crisis, the bigger was the break; but a crisis has been both a necessary and sufficient condition for every dramatic Budget. These crises were either political or economic, or, as has mostly been the case, a combination of the two.&#8221;    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DXWVvL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DXWVvL (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DXWVvL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 30<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnderpinning all this casual cruelty is a prejudice that says Britain is a property-owning democracy, and those without a property don\u2019t deserve full democratic rights. It\u2019s an attitude that runs wide and deep, to some of our most basic services\u201d <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2D9tYwl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2D9tYwl (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2D9tYwl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 29    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When placed in combination, xinli weisheng or jingshen weisheng \u2013 the terms used to translate mental hygiene \u2013 conveyed a sense of monumental possibility. If physicians and politicians could regulate individual bodies through public-health measures, then they could do the same for individual minds. And if psychological science could control the minds of the Chinese people, then government regimes could achieve unprecedented authority.&#8221;    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/36hOshM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/36hOshM (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/36hOshM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 28    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven highly subjective facts, such as a person\u2019s \u2018furtive behaviour\u2019 or presence in a \u2018high-crime neighbourhood\u2019 will suffice. But the Court\u2019s permissive attitude toward police stops has serious repercussions: it is often during these short stops that fatal shootings and other violence between citizens and police occur. Such violence ensues with strikingly higher frequency in the US than in other countries. One study estimated that in 2014 police in the US killed 458 people. In that same year, police in Germany killed eight people; in Britain, zero people; and in Japan, zero people. By failing to regulate police stops, the US Supreme Court is enabling this astonishing number of civilian deaths at the hands of police.\u201d    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vd29BP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vd29BP (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vd29BP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 27    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWithout enough staff, the IRS has slashed even basic functions. It has drastically pulled back from pursuing people who don\u2019t bother filing their tax returns. New investigations of \u201cnonfilers,\u201d as they\u2019re called, dropped from 2.4 million in 2011 to 362,000 last year. According to the inspector general for the IRS, the reduction results in at least $3 billion in lost revenue each year. Meanwhile, collections from people who do file but don\u2019t pay have plummeted. Tax obligations expire after 10 years if the IRS doesn\u2019t pursue them. Such expirations were relatively infrequent before the budget cuts began. In 2010, $482 million in tax debts lapsed. By 2017, according to internal IRS collection reports, that figure had risen to $8.3 billion, 17 times as much as in 2010.\u201d <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/38tc6cE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/38tc6cE (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/38tc6cE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 26    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTHE FIRST OF OUR KIND has struck fear into the hearts of America,\u201d announced one commenter last year on the giddily offensive \/r9k\/ board of the notorious, anarchic site 4chan. \u201cThis is only the beginning. The Beta Rebellion has begun. Soon, more of our brothers will take up arms to become martyrs to this revolution.\u201d The post, dated October 1, was referring to the news that twenty-six-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer had killed nine classmates and injured nine others before shooting himself at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.  https:\/\/goo.gl\/fpffNt<br> Article 25    &#8220;Why the Philippines Genocide happenedIt all happened because of a prayer to god.President McKinley was in the Whitehouse praying when he claimed it came to him that he could not give the Philippines back to Spain as that would look cowardly.&#8221; <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37fFdQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37fFdQA (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/37fFdQA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 24    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A Must read article. The line between original information and created, fed information is disappearing as every day passes. This is further pointing towards a place where we cannot believe anything that is presented to us, or counterintuitively, we would end believing anything and everything, because we are conditioned to do so. &#8220;Researchers in Germany who have attempted to codify ethics for VR have warned that its \u201ccomprehensive character\u201d introduces \u201copportunities for new and especially powerful forms of both mental and behavioral manipulation, especially when commercial, political, religious, or governmental interests are behind the creation and maintenance of the virtual worlds.\u201d <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ri2qMv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ri2qMv (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ri2qMv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 23    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Riding the country\u2019s flagship high-speed rail this year, I overheard an announcement warning passengers that bad behavior on board \u201ccould affect your personal credit\u201d\u2014now it\u2019s been revealed that a whole range of infractions, from smoking to having the wrong tickets, could land citizens on a \u201cdeadbeat blacklist.\u201d (So, too, will offering \u201cinsincere\u201d apologies for defaulting on loans; one must not only learn to grovel, but like it.)&#8221;  <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TTcLQm (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TTcLQm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TTcLQm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 22    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An intriguing piece that explores history. It also goes on to explores the idea of conscription and how complex interactions happened between commoners and the government.&#8221;From concentrating the obligation on a single member, it was a short step to finding a substitute who was not a family member. In one of my favourite cases, the Wang family of Wenzhou arranged for a man who was previously registered as a Buddhist monk to serve as their substitute. In a somewhat mysterious twist, it was agreed that the monk\u2019s \u2018descendants\u2019 would adopt the Wang surname and fulfil the obligation in perpetuity.&#8221;    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37sFTlP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37sFTlP (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/37sFTlP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 21    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will oppose extremism, we will oppose separatism, we will oppose terrorism,\u201d they chanted again and again. Almost every day, the students received guest lecturers from the local police, judiciary and other branches of government warning about the dangers of separatism and extremism.In four-hour sessions, instructors lectured about the dangers of Islam and drilled internees with quizzes that they had to answer correctly or be sent to stand near a wall for hours on end.\u201cDo you obey Chinese law or Sharia?\u201d instructors asked. \u201cDo you understand why religion is dangerous?\u201d  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NPZOmD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NPZOmD (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NPZOmD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 20    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of the best chapters in World Without Mind involves the coming of what Foer calls the Big One, \u201cthe inevitable mega-hack that will rumble society to its core.\u201d Foer writes that the Big One will have the potential to bring down our financial infrastructure, deleting fortunes and 401Ks in the blink of an eye and causing the kind of damage to our material infrastructure that could lead to death. Big tech can see the Big One coming, and is bracing for it, taking lessons from the example set by the banks during the economic collapse of 2008. They\u2019re lawyering up and harnessing resources to make sure they\u2019ll make it through. We, the users whose fortunes will have been lost, whose data will have been mishandled and who will have potentially suffered grave bodily harm as the result of this mega-hack, won\u2019t fare so well.&#8221;   https:\/\/themillions.com\/2018\/01\/will-the-internet-destroy-us-all-on-franklin-foers-world-without-mind.html<br> Article 19    \u201cThis is a dream I can\u2019t wake up from. I woke up Saturday morning and was gonna call Dimitri and tell him, \u2018Dude, I had a fucked-up dream I was gonna tell you. I had a fucked-up dream you had just killed ten fucking people, and if you ever have any mental health issues, if you ever need anybody to talk to, fucking call me. I\u2019m always right here.\u2019 \u201d  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GeaGqm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GeaGqm (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GeaGqm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 18    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Labeling something irrelevant is a common Trump tell that he values something highly. He and his allies portrayed the summit as proof that he had succeeded where other presidents had not. The North Koreans also wanted a U.S. agreement to meet, feeling that getting Washington to sit down would legitimize them.  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3asAfC1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3asAfC1 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3asAfC1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 17    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A brilliant piece about nation building. Takes instances from several parts of a globe, tries to put things that have been common amongst countries that came together well as a nation, or didn&#8217;t. Uses statistics (will be useful for future managers, to dwell into and understand what the statistical paragraph conveys).States three major points as reasons to forming a strong nation including a good public distribution system. 4900 words. Political essay. Worth spending the next fifteen minutes on. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/36hS7Mk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/36hS7Mk (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/36hS7Mk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 16    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Soviet archival research and memoirs reveal that Castro pleaded to Khrushchev that if the U.S. invaded\u2014as Castro expected and the Russians feared\u2014 Khrushchev must preemptively use nuclear weapons against the U.S. Castro wrote to Moscow, \u201cif they [the Americans] actually carry out the brutal act of invading Cuba \u2026 that would be the moment to eliminate such danger forever through an act of legitimate defense, however harsh and terrible the solution would be.\u201d Castro knew this would destroy Cuba and himself, but he could not stand the idea of the U.S. getting away with invading, and he thought global socialism would prevail.&#8221; <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3auMhL4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3auMhL4 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3auMhL4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 15    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine breaking into the back of a moving delivery truck by night and stealing tens of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of Apple products. Now imagine reaching for that truck from the hood of a car traveling 50 miles an hour, its lights off to avoid detection. After enduring several such attacks, the Swedish postal service, PostNord, busted the highway robbers by wiring a truck with cameras, filling it with Apple products, and waiting. On a road somewhere between Vara and Alings\u00e5s, in southwest Sweden, the robbers took the bait, and cops moved in. \u201c <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/38w7z9u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/38w7z9u (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/38w7z9u<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 14    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how a debate among psychologists and economists has come to have cultural significance. A government that assumes people make mistakes needs expert to describe the \u201ccorrect\u201d decisions, which doesn\u2019t always happen. That\u2019s an odd position for a democratic government to be in, argues the philosopher Mark D. White, a philosopher at the College of Staten Island who is a skeptic of nudge tactics. \u201cYes, business does it,\u201d he says, \u201cbut here is the difference: Everybody knows business tries to manipulate you. We don\u2019t expect the government to manipulate us. That\u2019s not the role that most of us assign to our government.\u201d People who lost their retirement savings in the financial crisis of 2008 might be forgiven for wishing they had not been nudged to invest so much.   <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Gjp3cN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Gjp3cN (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Gjp3cN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 13    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My grief and anger about today\u2019s southern border come not just from my personal life. As a retired psychotherapist who has worked extensively with victims of childhood trauma, I know all too well what awaits many of the thousands of children, taken by our government at the border, who are now in \u201cprocessing centers\u201d and foster homes \u2013 no matter how decent and caring those places might be. We can expect thousands of lives to be damaged, for many years or for ever, by \u201czero tolerance\u201d. We can expect old men and women, decades from now, still suffering, still remembering, still writing in the present tense. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vd3it7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vd3it7 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2vd3it7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 12    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When abolitionists argued that slavery was cruel, and that separating families was a violation of religious ethics, they were met with the argument of religious compliance with the law. John Fea, a history professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, told the Washington Post: \u201cWhenever Romans 13 was used in the 18th and 19th century \u2013 and Sessions seems to be doing the same thing, so in this sense there is some continuity \u2013 it\u2019s a way of manipulating the scriptures to justify your own political agenda.\u201d   <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/30J5rs4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/30J5rs4 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/30J5rs4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 11    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But identity is not so easy to erase. You can pack away parts of who you are, but this space was never made for you and the people in it will always see you in a certain way. Words continue to land on you, breaking your bones. \u201cAre you going to have an arranged marriage?\u201d; \u201cWhere are you really from?\u201d; \u201cYou\u2019re really different.\u201d. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37iws8m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37iws8m (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/37iws8m<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 10    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Controversial policies pursued under that name have popped up all around the country. NYPD stop-and-frisk incidents overwhelmingly target African American or Latino individuals, most of whom are innocent, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. Recently, Yale University campus police interrogated a black graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola, after responding to a call made by another student who did not recognize Siyonbola when she fell asleep in a dormitory common room. In Oakland, a similar scenario played out when a white woman called the cops on a group of black people having a cookout. Seattle\u2019s Find it, Fix it app might not look like a race-driven self-policing apparatus, but it helps promulgate similar outcomes. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TQ7auf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TQ7auf (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TQ7auf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 9    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You have to pay a price for standing by the truth \u2026 and when you have your own moral pursuit, of course you have to pay a price \u2026 but he never regretted it.&#8221;    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2txgSqV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2txgSqV (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2txgSqV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 8    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>First, you tell us what you want. You cast your vote for a politician, or for a party, or you take a position on a referendum, whatever it might be. Second, you tell us who you are. We get your demographic information, which is anonymously coded, because that stuff affects how you vote and what you support.And the third thing you do is take a quiz of very basic political knowledge. When we have those three bits of information, we can then statistically estimate what the public would have wanted if it was fully informed.Under this system, it\u2019s not really the case that you have more power than I do. We can\u2019t really point to any individual and say you were excluded, or your vote counted for more. The idea is to gauge what the public would actually want if it had all the information it needed.    <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2RAwamA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2RAwamA (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2RAwamA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 7    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Its board is stuffed with City folk: PFI lawyers, management consultants, accountants \u2013 but apparently no working teacher. Even as it drops three of its schools, the trust\u2019s aim is to run 25 to 30 institutions. Waltham Holy Cross will be the latest notch. \u201cMy kids are my world \u2013 and this school is their world,\u201d Roberts says. \u201cWhy should Net spoil that?\u201dWhen the school got its Ofsted result months ago, Barnett writes, \u201cthe local authority told us that the director of education, Clare Kershaw, would want us only to go with [Net Academies]\u201d. Essex county council\u2019s Kershaw was also a trustee with the charity New Education Trust, out of which came the Net Academies. Both the council and the government assured me that the two were separate entities, and her interest had been properly declared. Net denies any conflict of interest. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3aIavSi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3aIavSi (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3aIavSi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 6    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006, the U.S. Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which prohibited gambling enterprises from processing payments online from U.S. credit cards and banks. That law effectively crippled the sizeable online poker industry in America (for a sense of scale, the industry brought in an estimated $2 billion in 2005 worldwide). Now, authorities in states across the country have turned their sites to another target: the daily fantasy sports industry. Fantasy sports, in the ensuing effort to show that they are based more on skill than on chance, have in some ways succeeded far beyond their intention\u2014they are, in many cases, more skill-based than the real sports on which fantasy players are betting.   <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37jJgLz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37jJgLz (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/37jJgLz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 5    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 31, 2010, President Barack Obama declared an end to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, turning the page on American military involvement in the country that began with the invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein from power. Eight years later, attacks this week in Anbar province and Kirkuk, attributed to isis, show just how difficult it is to stabilize a country that has seen little stability since then\u2014and not for want of trying.  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ga2ojn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ga2ojn (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ga2ojn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 4    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Informative read on how the Mafia originated, and it&#8217;s spread across the Atlantic to the American soil. And why Citrus fruits were most probably the reason for the origin of the Mafioso!  <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NOG2YO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NOG2YO (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2NOG2YO<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 3    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Netflix is an accessible example of the gap between an algorithmically generated consumer profile and the untidy bundle of our lived experiences and preferences. The reality of living a digital life is that we\u2019re routinely confronted with similarly less than spot-on categories: Facebook ads for products you would never buy, iPhoto tagging your house as a person\u2019s face, false positives, false negatives, and all the outliers that might be marked as red dots on prediction models. Mix-ups like these might be laughable or bothersome; the octopus of interlinked corporate and state surveillance apparatuses has inevitable blind spots, after all. Still, I wonder if these blunders are better than the alternative: perfect, all-knowing, firing-on-all-cylinders systems of user tracking and categorization. Perhaps these mistakes are default countermeasures: Can we, as users, take shelter in the gaps of inefficacy and misclassification? Is a failed category to the benefit of the user\u2014is it privacy, by accident? <br><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3aAcZC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3aAcZC8 (opens in a new tab)\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3aAcZC8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 2    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If so, which applicants \u201ccount\u201d as racial or ethnic minorities? Does anyone with a smidgen of minority heritage count? Or do only those people with a parent or grandparent from the protected class count? At what percentages do we institute cut-offs?When measuring \u201cdiversity,\u201d should schools count Asian Americans? Native Americans? Latinos? Or should they concern themselves only with blacks, because of their unique history as part of America\u2019s slave-owning past?Should one be officially registered with a tribe to count as Native American? Who counts as Latino? Only Mexicans and Central Americans? What about South Americans? Or Cubans? Or Puerto Ricans? Do the grandchildren of Hispanic immigrants count? Or only the first generation?Why are we doing this bean-counting at all?  <br><a href=\"https:\/\/washex.am\/2NSkNFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/washex.am\/2NSkNFE (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/washex.am\/2NSkNFE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Article 1    <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was part of the \u201cAngola Three\u201d\u2014a trio of men kept in solitary confinement for decades and named for the Louisiana state penitentiary where they were held. King was released in 2001 after a judge overturned his 1973 conviction for killing a fellow inmate. 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