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Science fiction can give students a tangible vision of change.


More than 50 years after its invention, the promise of the birth control pill is still out of reach for many women.


Money matters for elections, of course, but this election also matters for campaign finance.


An unprecedented number of people wrote it to protect the internet from overreaching ISPs, but the government will almost certainly ignore them.


America needs a new admissions strategy to create a higher education system that fights inequality rather than perpetuates it.


They’re not evil, they’re just trying to be practical and useful as a rich but tiny country in a dangerous neighborhood.


Sanctions work better at making a statement to other countries than at coercing the target.


Singapore political and economic model has powered it to decades of success, but those very successes are rendering it obsolete. Today the consensus is fraying and change is needed.



