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Aziz Z. Huq is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and coauthor of Unchecked And Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror.
We need a model of ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used, avoids the costs of private exploitation by individual firms, and does not slip into authoritarian forms of state control.
Two conflicting visions of equality have recently emerged on the American political left. Only one aims at institutional change.
How other countries’ constitutions protect against political free-for-alls.
It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.
— and how it became mainstream.
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