Why Don’t We Regulate the Internet?

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1. The internet is built to be addictive. So why don’t we regulate it?

By Michael Schulson in Aeon

2. As the Paris climate talks get under way, oceans have the most to lose.

By Eric Holthaus in Slate

3. Censoring their websites won’t stop terrorists, and it might make them stronger.

By Kaveh Waddell in the National Journal

4. Does microcredit really work for global development?

By Milford Bateman in Jacobin Magazine

 

5. The American identity is de-linking from whiteness.

By Eric Liu in CNN

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