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A new phase

Moria Paz (Stanford): The Law of Walls. “No one but himself to blame”: Spencer Ackerman on how Obama’s Guantanamo plans fell through. Dan Froomkin and Jenna McLaughlin on how FBI vs. Apple establishes a new phase of the crypto wars. Most software already has a “golden key” backdoor: The system update. The billion-dollar Supreme Court Justice: Antonin Scalia was worth billions of dollars to corporate America, if a Dow Chemical settlement made public is any indication. Laurence H. Tribe on the Scalia myth. Dean at University of Texas resigns in part over handgun law. Haeyoun Park, Josh Keller, and Josh Williams on the faces of American power, nearly as white as the Oscar nominees. The Revenant author has a day job: Michael Punke is the United States ambassador to the World Trade Organization, a role that is seriously limiting his celebrity.