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Rep. Adam Smith

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An Exit Strategy From Detention at Guantanamo

Rep. Adam Smith | May 22, 2013 | Politics
The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay was never a good idea. It is an even worse idea now. Let's start the process to close GTMO now.
Aundaray Guess

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Is Mark Carson's Death an Opportunity for a New Matthew Shepard Moment?

Aundaray Guess | May 21, 2013 | Gay Voices
It should be an alarm that alerts us to the complacency that has enveloped us and force us to refocus on anti-LGBT hate crimes. It should generate a renewed dialogue about why a gay man can be shot dead in plain sight in the street simply because of who he is.
Allison Hope

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Why Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Are Up: The Storm Before the Calm

Allison Hope | May 21, 2013 | Gay Voices
I believe that we're seeing the tortured last battle of an anti-gay subset of our society that knows that it's losing the culture war. what do angry, ignorant people do when they feel that they no longer have control? They use their angry words, their fists, their guns and their knives.
Adam Banner

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In Oklahoma, Many Massacres Aren't Man-made

Adam Banner | May 21, 2013 | Crime
I was born and bred in Oklahoma. I make my living as an Oklahoma criminal defense attorney. Tornadoes have been a part of my entire life. Hell, my high school mascot was a "red tornado."
Jesse Lava

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To Offset Disaster Relief, Curb the Drug War (VIDEO)

Jesse Lava | May 21, 2013 | Crime
Policymakers hoping to find meaningful offsets to fund disaster aid will have look at: 1) Where there's a lot of money, 2) where the spending is unjustifiable, and 3) where the politics and public opinion are conducive to allowing cuts, since there are very few areas in which that's true.
Geoffrey R. Stone

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Freedom of the Press and Criminal Solicitation

Geoffrey R. Stone | May 21, 2013 | Politics
Striking the right balance between the government's legitimate need for confidentiality, the press's legitimate need to obtain information about government action, and the public's "right to know" what its representatives are up to, is a difficult and delicate task.
Gabriel Sayegh

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Is Cuomo Still Committed to Fixing New York's Broken Marijuana Possession Law?

Gabriel Sayegh | May 21, 2013 | New York
In January of this year, during his 2013 State of the State speech, Governor Andrew Cuomo made a bold call to stop discrimination in New York. Now, with only a month remaining in the legislative session, the governor appears MIA on reform.
Donna McAleer

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What Do I Tell My Daughter Who Wants to Serve? The Sexual Assault Crisis in the Military

Donna McAleer | May 21, 2013 | Politics
Both my husband and I proudly served in the Army, and we have told our daughter of our experiences. I want my daughter to consider serving. But how can I ask her to enter the military knowing that her chances of being sexually assaulted are 1 in 3 compared to 1 in 6 in the civilian world?
Doug Fine

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The Risks You Still Take If You Legally Use an Ancient Plant

Doug Fine | May 21, 2013 | Crime
The bottom line: responsible adult cannabis users should no longer have to hide any more than responsible alcohol users do.
Peter Graham

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The Murder of the Century

Peter Graham | May 21, 2013 | Books
On a sunny winter's afternoon, June 1954 in Christchurch New Zealand, two teenage girls, Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, accompanied by Pauline's mother, Honorah Parker, went for a walk in Victoria Park. There the girls put into action their plan to murder Honorah.
Dr Raj Persaud

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Psychologists Suggest Deep Flaws in Latest Search Strategy for Madeleine McCann

Dr Raj Persaud | May 20, 2013 | UK
The detrimental effect of age-progressed images is most probably partly a psychological effect: The addition of an age-progressed image somehow changes observers' decision-making strategies, and does so in a profoundly unhelpful way.
David Protess

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Wrongful Conviction Hearing a Revelation

David Protess | May 20, 2013 | Chicago
Truth be told, slurs are common around the water cooler, reflecting a dehumanizing view of criminal defendants that comes from years of locking them up, one person of color at a time.
Martin Kleinman

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Wake Up, People! New York Crime Still Exists

Martin Kleinman | May 20, 2013 | New York
As part of my quest to keep you safe, I've assembled this checklist of my favorite anti-crime tips. Commit them to memory. Then, focus! I don't care if it's 2013, not 1977. You're in New York City, not Candyland.
Paul Ekman

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Reading the Face of Amanda Berry

Paul Ekman | May 20, 2013 | Crime
This picture of Amanda Berry shortly after her escape from captivity, reunited with her sister Beth, and with her daughter Jocelyn, is striking because of the differences in how each of them is reacting at this moment in time.
Jennifer Tyrrell

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Dear Boy Scouts, Being Straight Doesn't Make You 'Morally Straight'!

Jennifer Tyrrell | May 20, 2013 | Gay Voices
The Boy Scouts of America tries to pretend that LGBT people aren't morally straight. That's the entire basis for keeping us out of scouting. Well, I have news for them: There's a long list of straight people who've been involved in scouting who are not morally straight.
Russ Belville

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Drug-Test Businessman Says Marijuana Led to Boston Bombings

Russ Belville | May 20, 2013 | Crime
How anyone could wreak such havoc and destruction is beyond the ability of most Americans to comprehend. Unless you're Robert L. DuPont, one of the principles in the firm Bensinger, DuPont and Associates, which is a major purveyor of drug testing management in America.
Macie Melendez

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Why Current Child Porn Laws Imprison the Wrong People

Macie Melendez | May 20, 2013 | Crime
These laws have formed the basis of a modern-day witch-hunt that thrives on the vagaries of the Internet and too often captures individuals who make relatively simple errors online, rather than those who produce such material or directly abuse children.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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Time to Explore How to Regulate Drugs

Fernando Henrique Cardoso | May 20, 2013 | World
After more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are growing louder by the day. In Latin America, the debate is positively deafening.
Richard Bloch

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CO's Death Penalty System Too Broken to Use: Commute Dunlap's Sentence

Richard Bloch | May 20, 2013 | Denver
Something is clearly wrong with our state when all the death sentences are coming out of one county. We are in a crisis when our state, which is 4.3 percent African-American, has a death row that is 100 percent African American. A broken system has produced flawed results.
Josh Horwitz

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The NRA's Perverted View of America

Josh Horwitz | May 20, 2013 | Politics
The NRA didn't just throw down the gauntlet to our government in Houston. It also articulated a vision of America and its ideals that is the antithesis of what our Founders intended, and which would mean the absolution of our Constitution.
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