Vol. 49 No. 3, July - July 2017
Index
- Armless droid calls cops after being assaulted by Drunken Man: the future of human-robot relations is silly and sensible, not sinister.
- Denver: the search for a place to toke up.
- Why did a conservative judge uphold an assault weapons ban?
- I'm no "worry-bird," now! Your money or your life: the immorality of insurance.
- The Democrats' Dullard Dynasty: as the pendulum swings against the GOP, an exhausted opposition looks to nothingburgers like Chelsea Clinton.
- Uber, but for school buses.
- Out of prison. Out of work.
- The Dea's warrantless cash grab: drug squads snag $4 billion using asset forfeiture.
- Under the stars and under the radar: a handy guide to camping on forbidden turf.
- Young men are playing video games instead of getting jobs. That's ok.
- Are robots going to steal our jobs? Many technologists think so, but economists aren't so easily convinced.
- The indestructible idea of the basic income: is this the only policy proposal Tom Paine, Huey Long, Milton Friedman, Timothy Leary, and Sam Altman can agree on?
- Your neighbor's fancy car should make you feel better about income inequality.
- Florida changes Harsh sentencing law, too late for many inmates.
- Free speech, no shit: Brewery founder Jim Caruso doesn't give a flying dog what you think of him.
- We could have had cellphones four decades earlier: thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
- The fleeting glory of Trump Magazine: no, not that Trump.
- God and man at the FBI: dissident and offbeat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.
- Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston story.
- Homeland.
- Metadata+.
- Empire games.
- Giving in America.
- Terms and conditions.
- Veep.
- From the archives.
- Cassandra of the crash: an interview with former Dallas Fed researcher Danielle DiMartino Booth.
- Brickbats.