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Dealing with a paradoxical phenomenon

Samantha Buckingham (Loyola): A Tale of Two Systems: How Schools and Juvenile Courts are Failing Students. Atoning for a genocide: Diyarbakir, Turkey, once at the center of the Armenian genocide, is trying to make amends — Raffi Khatchadourian reports from his grandfather’s home town. Ashlee Vance on Elon Musk's plan to build a space Internet. Eric Holder bars local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without warrants or criminal charges, the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs. Helicopters don’t pay for themselves: Leon Neyfakh on why Eric Holder’s civil forfeiture decision won’t stop civil forfeiture abuse. James McAuley on how there's a model for how France should treat its Muslims — it's how France treats its Jews. Andrew Hammond on Al Qaeda and Islamic State: A deadly rivalry. When ideologies tangle: Borzou Daragahi reviews Confronting Political Islam by John Owen. Todd Krainin interviews Glenn Greenwald on surveillance, reporting, and new fault lines in American politics. Mark A. Rothstein on the moral challenge of Ebola. The museum of the revolution and the museum of modernist art are meeting places for the politician and the artist fighting against the limitations of time and place; we are dealing with a paradoxical phenomenon of avant-garde museology.