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On The Gist, Slate correspondent Justin Peters on the life and death of “free culture” crusader Aaron Swartz and the history of copyright in the U.S. Peters wrote The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet.
In the Spiel, reflecting on recent shootings of black men by police and of police by a black man.
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