The Question That Was Not Asked…

No one asked the president about Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet-freedom activist who, facing controversial federal criminal charges, committed suicide last week

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A Free Online Liberal Arts Education?

Just getting a job in this economy is difficult enough. Getting one with a liberal arts degree is simply masochistic. Don’t spend half a decade and thousands of dollars only to join the rest of the English majors busking in a subway

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Pussy Out: Riot’s Closing Statements

Resembling a medieval witch trial, three women band members of the Russian Punk group Pussy Riot have been imprisoned for months for hooliganism.

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“Balaclavas, Pastel Tights, Putin Give Them Human Rights!”

Outside the massive compound that is the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C., human rights activists and punk rockers came together to protest the wrongful imprisonment of Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot.

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Activists Rally for Bradley Manning

After his solitary confinement from July 2010 to April 2011 at Quantico, Va., which sparked outrage by rights activists, pfc. Manning was transferred to a prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where he was placed under less restrictive conditions.

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