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Mass. Court Weighs in on Police Cell Phone Dragnets

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said a phone dragnet was OK because there was “particularized evidence that the perpetrator had...

A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work

Minorities and women have overwhelmingly reported benefits to remote work and work from home opportunities, compared to their colleagues.

Talk of reparations is being revived around the country

Reparations is having a moment—400 years after the U.S. slave trade began, 157 years following the Emancipation Proclamation and 56 years...

Behind bars in Scandinavia, and what we can learn

“We help each other—that’s what we do here is we help each other.” It wasn’t the sentiment I expected to hear from a guard describing his...