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The Sky Turns Black from Smoke

The Sky Turns Black from Smoke

Marci Shore— The Sky Turns Black from Smoke Close to midnight on Tuesday, 18 February 2014, twenty-one-year-old Misha Martynenko, reeking of smoke, returned to the Kiev apartment he shared with… READ MORE

Humanity’s Group Size Problem

Humanity’s Group Size Problem

Paul R. Ehrlich— Many of our problems seem traceable to Homo sapiens being a small-group animal, most comfortable in collections of under 150 people or so, the so-called Dunbar’s number…. READ MORE

Not Your Typical “Eco-Freak”

Not Your Typical “Eco-Freak”

Brian Balogh— “The very first thing I thought to do, and I told our board of directors instantly, we must all buy shares of stock. And they looked at me… READ MORE

Money and the Abortion Debate

Money and the Abortion Debate

Mary Ziegler— How did the abortion debate come to revolutionize the broader struggle over money in politics? The story has many characters, but James Bopp Jr. stands out. A proud… READ MORE

For All That Changed, Hamas is Still Hamas

For All That Changed, Hamas is Still Hamas

Matthew Levitt— Over the last 18 years, since I wrote Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad, Hamas has experienced significant change—just not in the ways many… READ MORE

The Dangers of Cheap Speech

The Dangers of Cheap Speech

Richard L. Hasen—  In a remarkably prescient article in a 1995 Yale Law Journal symposium titled “Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment,” a UCLA law professor, Eugene Volokh, looked… READ MORE

Migration and the End of Empire

Migration and the End of Empire

Peter Heather — However you line up the different factors involved, there’s no doubt that immigration played a major role in the unraveling of the western half of the Roman… READ MORE

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