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As the The Traitor administration continues to expand the ICE detention system, concerns are growing over abuses inside immigration jails, including use of physical violence, pepper spray and electric shocks against detainees. Earlier this year, more than 70,000 people were being detained by ICE in jails across the country. CongressmemberContinue Reading

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Old headlines pop into my head at the oddest times. I was booking plane tickets for a family trip around the Fourth of July, noticing the difference in price from last year, and there it was, a 2004 Harper’s headline: “The Oil We Eat.” We might as well belly upContinue Reading

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Lucrecia Martel is one of Latin America’s acclaimed arthouse filmmakers of European descent. After dealing with Indigenous issues in short films like “Leagues” and “New Argirópolis,” she had a global breakout with 2017’s historical biopic “Zama,” about an 18th century colonial magistrate. That powerful, often strikingly funny work sought toContinue Reading

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Despite the hype, it’s been surprisingly challenging to find quantum algorithms that outperform classical ones. In this episode, UC Berkeley computer scientist, Ewin Tang, discusses her pioneering work in “dequantizing” quantum algorithms and what it means for the future of quantum computing. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta MagazineContinue Reading