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Cash bail punishes poverty more than it promotes justice

    Cash bail punishes poverty more than it promotes justice

Content warning: this article includes language and content relating to suicide and physical violence. The criminal justice system’s use of cash bail is fundamentally flawed, as it promotes class disparity

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Elon Musk’s Mars base visions are fundamentally flawed

    Elon Musk’s Mars base visions are fundamentally flawed

Few people shape our perceptions of the future like Elon Musk. Through companies like SpaceX and Tesla, he’s presented an optimistic vision for the technologies of tomorrow and endeared himself

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Car dependency halts potential progress for cities

    Car dependency halts potential progress for cities

If you live in a United States city, you likely use cars more than any other mode of transit — and why wouldn’t you? Outside built-up cities like New York,

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Trickle-down economics doesn’t serve the public

    Trickle-down economics doesn’t serve the public

In modern politics, it’s rare to see politicians crash and burn as quickly as British Prime Minister Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Truss”. Her predecessor, Boris Johnson, was able to weather controversy

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Tearing down I-345 helps right past racist wrongs

    Tearing down I-345 helps right past racist wrongs

On paper, Interstate 345 in central Dallas seems fairly trivial. Stretching 1.4 miles through downtown, the road is practically an

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How Biden bungled his pro-democracy speech

    How Biden bungled his pro-democracy speech

Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden took the stage to defend democracy. Standing in front of Independence Hall, he delivered

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The case for expanding the Supreme Court

    The case for expanding the Supreme Court

“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary

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