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Conor Friedersdorf
Management
Police Reform Is Popular. Rioting Is Not.
COMMENTARY | Once the fires are out, what is the best way to secure justice?
Management
Mass Surveillance Is Coming to a City Near You
COMMENTARY | A tech entrepreneur wants to track the residents of a high-crime American community.
Management
The Dangers of a Mandatory DNA Database
COMMENTARY | A controversy in Arizona is a portent of future public-policy fights.
Management
A Police Killing Without a Hint of Racism
Daniel Shaver begged officers not to shoot him. What role will his death play in the push for law-enforcement reforms?
Workforce
The Disappearing Right to Earn a Living
Want to become a florist in Louisiana? A home-entertainment installer in Connecticut? Or a barber anywhere? You’re going to need a license for that—and it’s going to cost you.
Management
How Venice Beach Became a Neighborhood for the Wealthy
... and what that means for affordable housing across the country
Management
Federalism Is Dead, Long Live Federalism
A Yale law professor argues that America has moved past the relationship among states that the Framers envisioned––but that a new federalism is serving the country well in its stead.
Management
Utah May Bring Back the Firing Squad to Kill Death-Row Inmates
The executions of death-row inmates would be barbaric, but perhaps preferable to lethal injections.
Management
Can California Textbooks Criticize Slave Traders?
A quirk in the Golden State's anti-discrimination law
Management
Ballot-Measure Results: An Election 2014 Highlight Reel
A survey of direct democracy on subjects from abortion to bear-hunting-with-donuts to wage increases for workers at the bottom.
Management
Life With Legal Weed in Boulder, Colorado
A conversation with middle-aged moms, homeless men, and college kids about post-prohibition marijuana.
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