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• The Christian Science Monitor debuted its security-and-privacy side project, Passcode, with an in-depth interview with Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information.
• Zephyr Teachout, author of Corruption in America, participated in a spirited discussion on money in politics on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
• Susan Engel, author of The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood, argued in the Atlantic that K–12 education needs to better harness children’s capacity for joy.
• On CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, Bernard Harcourt, author of Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing, discussed with Malcolm Gladwell how the recent NYPD work slowdown illuminates the failure of broken windows theories.

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January 22: After Roe

Today, the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, thousands will gather in Washington to partake in the March for Life, an annual demonstration against “the greatest human rights violation of our time.” The March is but one of countless expressions of the common understanding of Roe as a signal event in the formation of America’s political and cultural divide. As legal scholar Mary Ziegler argues in After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate, though, by paying attention so exclusively to the Supreme Court we have lost a much richer story about the evolution of abortion politics. “Rather than remaining preoccupied by the C…