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NYTimes: A Tale of Two Parties

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Why is Hillary Clinton holding up so well against Donald Trump? And why were establishment Republicans so hapless?

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Why Can’t the U.S. Treat Gun Violence as a Public-Health Problem?

A 1996 bill has had a chilling effect on the CDC’s ability to research firearms.

After a deadly shooting, the debate always, it seems, breaks down like this: One side argues for gun control, and the other argues there is no research proving those measures work. There is, in fact, little research into gun violence at all—especially compared to other causes of death in the United States.

The modern origins of the impasse can be traced to 1996, when Congress passed an amendment to a spending bill that forbade the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using money to “advocate or promote gun control.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/gun-violence-public-health/553430/

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NYTimes: Religion’s Wicked Neighbor

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Terrorism isn’t central to Islam, and terrorists aren’t practicing religion.

NYTimes: Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created?

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It helped to develop all the new ways we watch TV — on-demand, bingeing, mobile. But the Silicon Valley company still has to keep reinventing itself.

NYTimes: Measuring the Trump Effect

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Trump vs. Clinton is changing the shape of the Toomey vs. McGinty Senate race in Pennsylvania. A visit to deindustrialized Pottstown helps us see why.

NYTimes: Lessons of Hiroshima and Orlando

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We need to think about the moral implications of where technology is taking us.

NYTimes: Omar Mateen, American Monster

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This was both an act of domestic terror and a hate crime. This norm of ours simply isn’t normal.

NYTimes: Time for a ‘No Buy’ List on Guns

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Our right to bear arms is no more fundamental than our right to privacy. Treating them similarly can help keep us safe.