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The New Jim Crow

Could someone please explain to me how, amidst the unveiling of a Rosa Parks statue in the US and a planned Obama trip to Israel to speak about “shared values,” this is acceptable? How is this anything but racial segregation? They talk about safety, but last I checked, the settlers were armed with both rocks […]

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Cairo and onward

I’m currently in Cairo, giving a training on Internet policy to a group of (mostly young) journalists. As always, I am humbled…having 10 hours to fill, I started off day one on international governance (probably a bad idea, given that it’s by and large the most boring topic of them all), and within 20 minutes […]

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Writing count 2012

I counted my words last year (though I can’t find the post), and I will this year as well. When I think about the fact that, in addition to those counted below, I also tweet like a crazy person and write a few dozen emails a day, I thank the powers that be that I […]