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- Self-Driving Cars Are Still Cars–Which Means They Won't Improve Your Commute http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117943/googles-self-driving-cars-miss-problem-mobility-america 77 comments
- Inside the Building That's Calling Itself the People's Republic of Donetsk http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117846/donetsks-people-republic-one-building-endless-bureaucracy 36 comments
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- Middle Initials Make You Seem Smarter; Simple Names More Trustworthy http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117603/middle-initials-make-you-seem-smarter-simple-names-more-trustworthy 4 comments science
- Republicans Accept Mass Killings. That's Why Gun Control Advocates Must Get Graphic. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123050/republicans-accept-mass-killings-gun-control-advocates-get-graphic 5 comments politics
- Ben Carson on Climate Change: "Gravity, Where Did it Come From?" http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122989/ben-carson-climate-change-gravity-where-did-it-come 1261 comments politics
- Donald Trump's Biggest Conservative Enemies Helped Create Him - "Conservatism is now expressed as an emotional sentiment. That sentiment is contempt and anger.” http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122772/donald-trumps-biggest-conservative-enemies-helped-create-him 5 comments politics
- The GOP's Crazy Birthright Citizenship Debate Could Have Real Consequences http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122587/making-sense-gops-crazy-birthright-citizenship-debate 3 comments politics
- The Scariest Trade Deal Nobody's Talking About Just Suffered a Big Leak | "WikiLeaks brought this agreement into the spotlight by releasing 17 key TiSA-related documents, including 11 full chapters under negotiation." http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121967/whats-really-going-trade-services-agreement 5 comments worldnews
- Life Is "Triggering." The Best Literature Should Be, Too. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121790/life-triggering-best-literature-should-be-too 29 comments books
- Why Texans Freaked Out Over an Army Exercise—and Ted Cruz Validated Their Fears http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121726/cruz-abbott-indulge-jade-helm-conspiracy-because-texans-demand-it?utm_content=bufferf7307&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 139 comments politics
- The Killing of Walter Scott Sheds Light on the Problem of Police Lying http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121486/walter-scott-killing-video-sheds-light-police-lying 263 comments politics
- I'm a European Jew—and No, I'm Not Leaving http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121388/why-jews-arent-leaving-europe-contra-atlantics-jeffrey-goldberg 102 comments europe
- Republicans' Attempt to Sabotage Obama's Iran Negotiations Will Backfire http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121255/republican-letter-iran-sabotage-nuclear-talks-could-backfire 34 comments politics
- Republicans Think They've Finally Figured Out How to Kill Unions http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121051/bruce-rauner-wants-gut-unions-illinois 13 comments politics
- Conservatives Have Stooped to Defending the Horrific Crusades http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121008/obamas-crusades-remark-generates-conservative-backlash 174 comments politics
- Watching Colbert Makes Conservatives Even More Conservative http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120601/watching-colbert-makes-people-more-conservative 10 comments politics
- The NYC Cop Who Strangled Eric Garner to Death Is Free Thanks to a Legal Flaw. Here's How Voters Can Fix It. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120478/eric-garner-police-officer-shouldve-been-investigated-independently 8 comments politics
- Who's the Real Deporter-in-Chief: Bush or Obama? http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117412/deportations-under-obama-vs-bush-who-deported-more-immigrants 24 comments moderatepolitics
- Feminists Need to Stop Sounding False Alarms About Sexism http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120272/lena-dunham-zuckerberg-controversies-dangers-feminist-overreach?utm_content=buffer3c165&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 71 comments politics
- Scientists discover that your parents' trauma can imprint itself on your genes and cause you to be less able to deal with trauma yourself. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120144/trauma-genetic-scientists-say-parents-are-passing-ptsd-kids 3 comments science
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is an American Hero http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119578/ruth-bader-ginsburg-interview-retirement-feminists-jazzercise 11 comments politics
- Here's What Happened When 13 States Raised Their Minimum Wages Hint: Job growth didn't implode http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119440/states-raised-their-minimum-wages-had-stronger-job-growth 177 comments politics
- Scalia: A Court of One http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119360/scalia-court-one-reviewed-justin-driver 3 comments law
- Russia Is Burying Soldiers in Unmarked Graves Just to Conceal Their Role in Ukraine http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119262/russia-burying-soldiers-unmarked-graves-hide-invasion 48 comments worldnews
- John Boehner Believes Income Inequality Is a Problem. But the GOP Doesn't Have a Solution http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117748/boehner-admits-income-inequality-problem-offers-no-solution 7 comments politics
- Of Course the Ousted President of Ukraine Commissioned a Nude Portrait of Himself http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117593/yanukovych-naked-portrait 6 comments nottheonion
- Obama Has Not Kept His Promise to Enforce Net Neutrality http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117516/fccs-new-rules-show-obama-has-not-kept-net-neutrality-promise 1473 comments politics
- Despite Pro-Russian Protests, Majority of Ukrainians Lean Toward Europe http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117357/despite-pro-soviet-protests-majority-ukrainians-lean-toward-europe 56 comments europe
- Haha! The Only People Harassing the Gays of Sochi are the Foreign Journalist http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116548/only-people-harassing-gays-sochi-are-foreign-journalist 20 comments russia
- The Only People Harassing the Gays of Sochi are the Foreign Journalists http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116548/only-people-harassing-gays-sochi-are-foreign-journalist 3 comments worldnews
- John McWhorter says, "Let's Stop Pretending That French Is an Important Language". Can we talk about this? http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116443/new-york-citys-french-dual-language-programs-are-mostly-pointless 221 comments linguistics
- The Post Office Should Just Become a Bank: How Obama can save USPS and ding check-cashing joints http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116374/postal-service-banking-how-usps-can-save-itself-and-help-poor 17 comments politics
- The First Victim of Russia's Anti-Gay Law Is Dead http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114904/alexey-davydov-russian-lgbt-activist-dies-moscow 16 comments worldnews
- North Carolina Voter ID Law Won't Save GOP From Demographic Change http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114288/north-carolina-gop-voter-id-law-wont-change-elections 5 comments politics
- The Painful Politics of Painkillers -- Opioids are deadlier than ever, but research into cannabis is still taboo http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113367/medicinal-marijuna-clinical-trials-lag 5 comments politics
- What people think of as the American free speech tradition, is, like civil rights and the Super Bowl, a tradition that turns out to date back only a half-century. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113294/how-corporations-hijacked-first-amendment-evade-regulation 3 comments freeculture
- The Delete Squad: Google, Twitter, Facebook And The New Global Battle Over The Future Of Free Speech http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113045/free-speech-internet-silicon-valley-making-rules 26 comments law
- How Marco Rubio Could End His Mentor Jeb Bush's Electoral Career - Florida Republicans, whose state has never produced a president, see the prospect of their running against each other somewhere on the spectrum between disbelief & dread http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112619/marco-rubio-vs-jeb-bush-who-will-run-republican-nomination 6 comments politics
- If Democrats Want to Solve the Sequester, They Should Move Left http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112588/sequestration-2013-democrats-should-move-left-pulling-gop-center 109 comments politics
- Still relevant: "This freedom gave us something real. It gave us the freedom to research, regardless of our wealth; the freedom to read, widely and technically, beyond our means." (from "For the Love of Culture" by Larry Lessig) http://www.newrepublic.com/article/the-love-culture# 3 comments technology