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Jane C. Ginsburg (Columbia): Overview of Copyright Law. Shiping Tang (Fudan): Order: A Conceptual Analysis. Against the odds, investigative journalism persists in the Middle East. Austerity vs. the planet: Trish Kahle on the future of labor environmentalism. Linguists say Trump uses a lot of “words that don’t carry any information”. For the poor in the Deep South’s cities, simply applying for a job exposes the barriers of a particularly pervasive and isolating form of poverty. Is 2016 the worst year in history? Alex Nichols on why you should be terrified that people who like “Hamilton” run our country: The American elite can’t get enough of a musical that flatters their political sensibilities and avoids discomforting truths. Leaked emails aside, the Democratic National Committee has been a long-standing problem. We’re all biased, but that doesn’t keep us from making valid decisions.