In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racis

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Photo: Catherine Ledner In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no chance of winning. A team of psycholo

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Let’s start by laying down the baseline premise: inequality in America has been widening for dec­ades. We’re all aware of the fact. Yes, there are some on the right who deny this reality, but serious

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In Jonathan Lethem’s new book, “Fear of Music,” a study of the Talking Heads album by the same name and a riff on his emotional history with the band, Lethem refers to an earlier essay of his on the s

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This article appears in the July 16-23, 2012 issue . Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Cornwall Iron Furnace on Saturday, June 1

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