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How Aaron Swartz Helped Inspire The Super PAC To End All Super PACs

Sam Gustin | Motherboard | June 30, 2014

Several years ago, the late internet activist Aaron Swartz had a conversation with one of his mentors, Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, that would change Lessig’s future...Swartz challenged Lessig to reevaluate his life's mission...

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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: We're Headed For Oligarchy

Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | April 25, 2014

In a recent interview at the Economic Policy Institute, Nobel Prize-Winning economist and MIT professor Robert Solow riffed on the political effects of increasing inequality and concentration of wealth at the very top. "If that kind of concentration of wealth continues, then we get to be more and more an oligarchical country, a country that's run from the top," he said.

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Open-Access Harassment: Science, Technology And Women

Georgina Voss | The Guardian | October 24, 2013

The working cultures and structures of science and technology may be different, but they both feed sexist myths of meritocracy Read More »