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"Even if we can't change the immigration policies or prevent raids from happening, people should know that they can access [government] services," says Daniel Kruger.

Details: Written by: Fran Korten, YES! Magazine

college in denmark 4 9 In an election year, we hear endless promises of what our politicians will do to help the people. But are the ideas we’re hearing from Bernie Sanders and others—like Medicare for all, free college tuition, paid family leave—just slogans to pander to voters suffering under stagnating wages and burdensome debt? Could those ideas ever actually take hold?

Details: Written by: Stian Reimers, Senior Lecturer in Psychology

When It Comes To Taxes, How Do We Decide What's Fair? The tax dealings of a number of politicians have come under scrutiny this week, following news of their offshore holdings in the Panama Papers. The leaks have led to the resignation of the Icelandic prime minister – and the UK prime minister, David Cameron, has been criticised for shares he used to have in an offshore fund set up

Details: Written by: Lisa Chedekel-Boston U

"Very few of the existing state gun-control laws actually reduce gun deaths, highlighting the importance of focusing on relevant and effective gun legislation," says Bindu Kaesan. "Background checks for all people buying guns and ammunition, including private sales, are the most effective laws we have to reduce the number of gun deaths in the United States." (Credit: K.G.23/Flickr) More than 90 people are killed by guns every day in the United States. In 2013, there were 33,636 gun deaths in the US. Civilians own approximately 270 million guns, roughly one “for every man, woman, and child,” as President Obama noted in an address to the nation in the wake of the shooting rampage at an Oregon community college last October that left 10 dead.

Details: Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia

The FBI Drops Its Case Against Apple And That Only Made Everyone's Security Worse

The FBI has succeeded in hacking into an iPhone that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook without Apple’s help. As a consequence, the FBI has dropped its legal case that was trying to force Apple...

Details: Written by: Patryk Szewczyk, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University

Internet connected devices like webcams are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Internet of Things. DAVID BURILLO/Flickr, CC BY-SA The range and number of “things” connected to the internet is truly astounding, including security cameras, ovens, alarm systems, baby monitors and cars. They’re are all going online, so they can be remotely monitored and controlled over the internet.

Details: Written by: Marcus Harrison Green, YES! Magazine

24 States Still Put Juvenile Offenders in Solitary Confinement Prison reform advocates see signs of hope in recent federal and state actions that alter the way young adults are incarcerated. “The president’s decision was an enormous display of moral leadership.”Last week, the Kansas State Senate passed a bill to revamp its juvenile justice system.

Details: Written by: Randi Hjalmarsson, Professor of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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The underrepresentation of women in political and civic life raises questions about the effects of their inclusion in decision-making roles. A study examining the introduction of female jurors in England reveals significant changes in conviction rates, particularly for sex offenses, highlighting the potential influence of female perspectives in judicial outcomes.

Details: Written by: Suelette Dreyfus, Lecturer, Department of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne

Giving Up Security And Privacy Could Hurt Us All “You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide” is an argument that is used often in the debate about surveillance.

Details: Written by: Eerke Boiten, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Director of Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, University of Kent

Why Apple Is Making A Stand Against The FBI Apple has been ordered to help FBI investigators access data on the phone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. The technical solution proposed by the FBI appears to undermine Apple’s earlier claim that they would be unable to help.

Details: Written by: Eileen Reynolds, New York University

How To Hide From The Internet’s Surveillance Machine It’s a common assumption that being online means you’ll have to part ways with your personal data and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Details: Written by: Nina Misuraca Ignaczak, Shareable

Prisoner Run Coop Slashes Recidivism Rate By Over 80% In Puerto Rico It's no secret that the United States prison system is a failure. Dismal statistics abound about the growing prison population. Despite having only 5 percent of the world's population, the United States incarcerates a quarter of the world's prisoners, according to the Economist.

Details: Written by: Mark Gruenberg, People's World

Why Even $15 An Hour Is Not Enough In Some States Low-wage workers nationwide have been campaigning for a $15 hourly "living wage" and the right to organize without employer labor law-breaking. But a new think tank report says that in most states, $15 is not enough - even for one person.

Details: Written by: Lauren Kirchner ProPublica

How much does your smart home know about you? That was the question that Charles Givre, a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, set out to answer in a recent experiment. Givre has an account on Wink, a platform designed to control, from a single screen, his Internet-connected home devices, such as door locks, window shades and LED lights.

Details: Written by: Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson ProPublica

Verizon's Zombie Cookie Gets New Life With AOL's Ad Network Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices. Verizon said in a little-noticed announcement that it will soon begin sharing the profiles with AOL's ad network, which in turn monitors users across a large swath of the Internet.

Details: Written by: InnerSelf Staff

4 Reasons The Wall Street Journal’s Attack on Bernie Sanders is Totally Bogus I’ve had so many calls about an article appearing earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal – charging that Bernie Sanders’s proposals would carry a “price tag” of $18 trillion over a 10-year period – that it’s necessary to respond.

Details: Written by: David Morris, On The Commons

greece debt EU’s economic demands seek to derail small business and local communities, paving the way for multinational corporate giants. One demand is that Greece abolish any laws restricting the days or hours a business can operate despite the fact that several European countries including have enacted such policies to protect workers and small business, including Germany.

Details: Written by: John Wihbey, Journalists Resource

Why Are So Many People In U.S. Prisons? In recent years, an increasingly bipartisan consensus around prison reform has begun to take shape, uniting policymakers in Congress who are typically on opposite sides of law-and-order issues

Details: Written by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica

Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here's Why Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some barbecue, a group of us decided to take a walk along the ocean. The mood on the beach that day was festive. Giggling children chased each other along the boardwalk...

Details: Written by: Damien Van Puyvelde, University of Texas at El Paso

Should We Expect Intelligence Services To Prevent Everything? The apparent recurrence of intelligence failures in France and elsewhere has long been debated by security experts, and ultimately begs the question: what can be expected from intelligence services?

Details: Written by: George Lakey

8 Ways To Defend Against Terror Nonviolently One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how to defend against terrorism, nonviolently. Events now unfolding in France make our course more relevant than ever. In fact, the international post-9/11 “war against terror” has been accompanied by increased actual threats of terror almost everywhere.