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		<title>There are Sex Slaves All Over the U.S.  Right Now.</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/09/cleveland-viewpoint-there-are-sex-slaves-all-over-the-u-s-right-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Berry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who deprive young girls of their freedom for years and years are obviously crazy sickos who need to be put away for life. Nobody’s going to argue about that. Except that for most of history, treating women like they’re ownable was the normal thing to do. In many places in the world, it’s still the normal thing to do. And although they don&#8217;t always get the coverage that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight are receiving, women are being held against their will all the time in the U.S. (MORE: The Mind of the Kidnap Victim: How They Endure and Recover) About a month before the voluble Charles Ramsey (who turns out to have been a repeat domestic abuser) was helping to kick down the door to free Berry and her daughter, Julio Cesar Revolorio Ramos of Adelphi, Md., was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl. He was part of a multi-state kidnapping and prostitution ring that has victimized hundreds of women and girls since at least 2008. And then in New York on April 30, just a week before the Ohio case, seven women were freed when another prostitution ring was broken up and 13 people arrested. Most of the women had been trafficked through Mexico, typically by men whom they believed at the time to be their boyfriends. The U.S. attorneys prosecuting the case allege that the women were beaten, threatened with physical harm to them and their family, sexually assaulted, and verbally abused if they declined to have sex with strangers for money. Or sometimes even if they didn&#8217;t. This doesn’t sound all that different from what we know about what happened in Ohio, or in Austria (twice!), or in Utah, or in California or in any of the high profile cases where girls have been kidnapped and held captive for long periods. But unless you’ve been looking, you may not have heard about the rescued prostitutes, even though their story is arguably a bigger one. According to the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=32259&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is Buried in Virginia: Where Other Notorious Criminals Were Laid To Rest</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/07/unwanted-bodies-where-terrorists-serial-killers-and-assassins-are-buried/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bess Lovejoy</dc:creator>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Don&#8217;t Let the Boston Bombing Take Away Our Privacy Rights</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/02/viewpoint-dont-let-the-boston-bombing-take-away-our-privacy-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 10:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Romero </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston attacks largely confirmed what we already knew about surveillance cameras. They don&#8217;t stop attacks – not in Boston, and not even in London or Times Square, which are blanketed with cameras. They can, however, be helpful in investigations, as they were in Boston. No one objects to cameras at high-profile targets or events; at the same time, we at the American Civil Liberties Union think there needs to be a balance. Government surveillance of everyone’s activities anywhere in public without proper checks and balances could fundamentally alter the way we live our everyday lives. (MORE: The Boston Bombing: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) When Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were first identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing we knew very little about them, except that they were brothers, immigrants and Muslim. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD reacted to the threat of future terrorism with a years-long program of un-American profiling, casting a wide net of suspicion over innocent American Muslims throughout the northeastern United States. Based on a false and unscientific “radicalization” theory, the NYPD spied on entire communities in their places of worship, small businesses, and student- and community-based organizations, based solely on their religious beliefs, race, or national origin. A NYPD official later testified that information collected through the NYPD&#8217;s program did not produce any leads for terrorism investigations. Instead, predictably, the NYPD&#8217;s actions wrongly stigmatized law-abiding Muslims, caused them to deeply distrust the police force instead of seeing it as a source of protection, and wasted law enforcement resources. (MORE: Post-Boston Marathon, How Races Are Heightening Security) Throughout American history, in times of fear, fundamental civil liberties are often restricted in the name of security. Later, those curbs on our freedoms are regretted, but reversing them may take years and may ultimately affect our notions of what constitutes freedom and fairness in the first place. Let&#8217;s not lose sight of the lessons we’ve learned about trading our liberties for a false sense of security in light of the tragedy that occurred in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31974&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Availability of Plan B Makes Philadelphia Abortion Doc an Anachronism</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/01/viewpoint-philadelphia-abortion-doc-kermit-gosnell-is-an-anachronism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Caplan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kermit Gosnell — the doctor who is on trial for killing a patient, four newborn babies, and performing numerous illegal abortions in a cesspool of a clinic in West Philadelphia—is many things.  He is inept, according to many who work for him. He did monstrous things — according to eyewitnesses, he severed the spinal cords of liveborn babies because he did not know what he was doing in trying to end late-term pregnancies. He is a doctor indifferent to patient welfare as, according to witness after witness, he had inadequately trained staff use inappropriate assemblyline care for those who came to see him. And Kermit Gosnell is a pawn in the nation’s ongoing moral war over elective abortion.  Those who oppose abortion see in him all that is wrong with allowing the choice to end pregnancy.  Those who defend the right to choice see in him all that is wrong when efforts to restrict access to abortion and push the procedure out of the medical mainstream produce filthy third-world level facilities staffed by hacks and charlatans. As both pro-choice and pro-life forces attempt to put Kermit Gosnell to use to argue the moral rectitude of their position, and the jury in his trial continues to deliberate, there is a danger that we will lose sight of what Kermit Gosnell really is — an anachronism. (MORE: Abortion Doctor&#8217;s Murder Trial Sparks Media Debate) Gosnell should certainly go to jail — and in all likelihood, he will. The hardened veteran police who raided his clinic were overwhelmed with emotion and anger at what they found there. But technology is making it less and less likely that the public face of abortion in the future will bear any resemblance to Kermit Gosnell and his backroom butchershop. Gosnell was a stop of last resort for woman late in their pregnancies. They sought an abortion past the point of fetal viability — a choice illegal in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. For these women, Gosnell and his ilk are their only option. But regardless<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31919&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorists and Mass Shooters: More Similar Than We Thought</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/23/terrorists-and-mass-shooters-more-similar-than-we-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher J. Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon adds to the litany of tragic violence rocking the U.S. and the world. Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, we’ve seen mass shootings in places from Switzerland to Serbia. Terrorist bombings have hit India, Turkey and remain endemic to the Middle East. We’ve tended to consider these types of acts — terrorism and mass shootings — as distinct. But recent scholarship suggest this dichotomy may be mistaken, a finding that could have significant impact on our approach to homeland security. Previous theories have conjectured that suicide terrorists (those who carry out politically motivated mass violence intending to die in the process) are not actually suicidal in the psychiatric sense. &#8220;Those who planned and perpetrated the acts of 11 September 2001 would not conceptualise the acts as suicide but instead would perceive them as martyrdom, rationally underpinned by a legitimate struggle in a conflict of national and religious dimensions,&#8221; wrote Harvey Gordon, a forensic psychiatrist specializing in the Middle East, in 2002. But Adam Lankford, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Alabama, recently conducted a comprehensive comparison of 81 suicide terrorists and suicide mass shooters who struck in the U.S. from 1990 through 2010 and concludes that the role of politically motivated martyrdom in terrorists may not be as relevant as previously thought. (MORE: The Boston Bombings: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) “For years, the conventional wisdom has been that suicide terrorists are no more suicidal than the average soldier or terrorist who is committed to the cause and willing to risk his or her life to fight for it,&#8221; Lankford writes.&#8221;These explanations largely reject the relevance of personal problems to the behavior of suicide terrorists, preferring to almost exclusively attribute these attacks to group psychology, organizational dynamics, and/or broader ideological movements.” In fact, Lankford argues, apart from the superficial differences in the crimes they perpetrate, suicide terrorists and mass-homicide perpetrators in the U.S. tend to draw from the same pool of mostly male despondent, enraged, grievance-collecting individuals. It’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31558&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Degrees of Separation from a Bomber</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/23/two-degrees-of-separation-from-a-bomber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis and Nicholas A. Christakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent a tense hour last Monday checking Facebook and Twitter to account for all 400 of our students at Harvard College, several of whom had been running in the marathon and were close to the blast site. As heads of one of Harvard’s undergraduate residential &#8220;houses,&#8221; news of last Thursday’s MIT shooting also reached us within minutes (because one of our students happened to be on the school’s campus and texted us, “gun fire at MIT; somebody shot — all I know”). Word continued to spread at warp speed as reports of shootings and sirens were shared from the real-time police feed. The social networks through which information flows may seem like a 21st-century phenomenon, but people have always lived their lives embedded in networks, ever since we emerged from the African savannah. And we have always had an astounding ability to cooperate that exists side-by-side with a depressing ability to kill. This past week in Boston, our new online world crystallized both of these age-old features of our humanity. (MORE: The Boston Bombings: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) Over the course of a few hours, we watched a surreal game of Six Degrees of Separation unfold: we learned that our 18- and 20-year-old sons, independently, knew several people who’d hung out in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s house, gone to prom and played sports with him, and knew his teachers. Our students reported similarly eerie, yet banal, connections. A few knew him directly — the storied Cambridge Rindge and Latin School sends plenty of kids to Harvard each year — and one of our colleagues had been the younger Tsarnaev’s coach at one time, which was a particularly horrifying connection insofar as yet another one of our colleagues was the heartbroken sibling of a victim killed in the attack. Many in Cambridge discovered oddly specific but nevertheless tangential links to the suspects. And we all became aware of these perplexing bonds together, well before they appeared in the news, while sheltering in place under the governor’s order. This is what happens<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31604&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boston Bombing: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture of his brother Dzhokhar, some lawmakers began calling for more public cameras of the sort that were so instrumental in their swift apprehension. Representative Peter King (R-N.Y.,) a member of the House Homeland Security and Intelligence committees, told MSNBC that video cameras in public locations are &#8220;a great law enforcement method&#8221; that &#8220;keeps us ahead of the terrorists who are constantly trying to kill us.&#8221; (MORE: Brother&#8217;s Keeper: Did Older Brother Lure Bombing Suspect into Plot?) It&#8217;s a safe bet that there will be more video cameras coming to cities across the United States. London, which was shaken by a subway bombing on July 7, 2007, now has upwards of one million surveillance cameras. So this is a good time to ask if we should put some limits on the government’s all-seeing eye. The answer should be yes. We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public – but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens. (MORE: FBI Will Face Questions Over Past Probe of Suspects) The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on – though it is impossible to know how much. Back in 2006, the New York Civil Liberties Union sent inspectors out to look for street-level surveillance cameras and found nearly 4,500 in Manhattan alone. There are, no doubt, many thousands more today in Manhattan, and countless more in cities and towns and shopping malls across the country. In addition to these government-installed cameras, there are street-facing security cams installed by office complexes, apartment buildings, and retail stores. In the Boston Marathon investigation, law enforcement relied in large part on surveillance video from a Lord &#38; Taylor department store that appeared to show someone dropping off a heavy bag at the bombing site. (Photos taken the old-fashioned way were also important.) (MORE: Bloody Visions: What Would the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31542&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on April 18, 2013, shows Tamerlan, front, in black cap, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in white cap, back right, walking through the crowd before the explosions at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Mass., on April 15, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Behind the Boston Bombings? Some Initial Clues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, after the attack at the Boston Marathon, Boston is a changed city. People are stunned and sad, desperate to know who would attack us and why. The FBI is not ready to tell us much. But there are some clues about what sort of individual or group might be responsible. The type of weapon — a pressure-cooker device — is one important clue. While this kind of bomb has been used around the world, including in the Mumbai attacks of 2006, it was recently promoted in an article titled “How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” in the summer 2010 issue of al-Qaeda’s online magazine Inspire. The Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad followed the recipe, though Shahzad’s bomb would have killed many more people than the relatively small bombs in Boston. (MORE: A Marathon Finisher Remembers How It All Sank In) Who might use such a device? The first possibility would be individuals following al-Qaeda’s recipe, imagining themselves to be furthering its goals by carrying out a “do-it-yourself” attack. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been publishing “open-source jihad” instructions and ideas for how to commit low-level terrorist attacks, and Westerners hoping to participate in the “jihad” are urged to carry it out at home. It’s too risky to travel to Pakistan to get trained; jihadist volunteers are too likely to get caught. Instead, volunteers are urged to carry out their own low-level, leaderless attacks. (MORE: From Jerusalem to Boston: Learning to Live With the Threat of Urban Violence) But leaderless resistance actually has its origins in American antigovernment groups, which is the second possibility. The concept was first introduced in the 1980s in a magazine called Survivalist Alert. It was then popularized by neo-Nazis on websites like Stormfront and later picked up by groups affiliated with al-Qaeda. The purpose of leaderless resistance is to evade law-enforcement detection. If small groups, unaffiliated with the movement’s leaders, could act on their own, the virtual organization would be far less vulnerable. This style of organization has been greatly enhanced by the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31407&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Parents Ask Other Parents About Guns in the Home?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, the father of a classmate of my son&#8217;s called to ask if he could join a group of fourth-grade boys practicing a comedy sketch for their school’s talent show. Like any parent coordinating a child’s schedule, I asked the basics: What time? Where do you live? When should I pick him up? Then I stammered out a final question, apologizing in advance for its personal nature: Do you keep guns in your home? Long pause. “No,” he replied, “but it’s a valid question.” The events of the past few days only reinforce the need to ask these questions. Last week, a 4-year-old picked up a loaded gun at a cook-out and accidentally killed the wife of a sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee. And on Monday, another 4-year-old shot and killed a 6-year-old friend as they played outside in a New Jersey neighborhood. “I’m sad for the children involved and their families, but I’m angry with whoever owns that gun and allowed a little child to get hold of it,” neighbor Debbie Coto told the Associated Press. (MORE: Kids and Guns: Why Doctors Have a Right to Know) I’m angry too. But I’m also proactive, which is why I never fail to ask the question of any parent who invites one of my kids over. I got the idea from a gun-safety rally I covered years ago, long before I even had kids. The advice sounded sage, if a bit discomfiting. It never fails to elicit a moment of stunned silence, but I’ve long since made peace with the awkwardness of asking. After all, when sending our kids over to someone else’s house, we make sure that the host parents have the appropriate car seats or boosters so that our children are safe on the road. If our kids have allergies, we let the host parents know. Recently, when my daughter invited a pal who has a peanut allergy to spend the night, her friend’s father dropped the girl off with a sleeping bag, a toothbrush and an EpiPen — just<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30699&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Stop and Frisk Isn&#8217;t the Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John McWhorter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re at at again. The shooting death three weeks ago of 16-year old Kimani Gray in New York City has led to the usual street rallies decrying the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy. Hundreds attended his funeral this weekend. Yet the protests miss the forest for the trees. What we should be decrying is the War on Drugs. The stop and frisk policies are indeed excessive, intruding upon almost every black male New Yorker between the ages of 15 and 18. But Gray’s story, as depressing as it is familiar, has larger implications. The police say Gray aimed a .38-caliber revolver at them. He was shot 7 times. His death was almost certainly grievously unwarranted. (MORE: Sarah Burnes and the Exonerated Central Park Five) Yet it is hardly unreasonable to wonder what a 16-year-old was doing with that gun anyway, or why his community doesn&#8217;t seem to find it especially noteworthy that he was carrying one. We get so used to hearing about kids carrying firearms that we can forget how bizarre it is in the historical sense. One of the most striking things missing in ethnographies of poor black neighborhoods before the seventies is the prevalence of guns. Most people reading this have probably never even held one. But in Gray’s world, they are ordinary objects. And what are they for?  Gangs. And gangs use guns not to shoot skeet, but to maintain turf. And the turf is not just for hanging out. It is for selling drugs: gangs sell drugs. This drug selling is motivated by the simple fact that you can sell drugs on the street at a high markup, and you can do that because the drugs are illegal. (MORE: Richard Branson Joins The War Against the War on Drugs) This means that if drugs – yes, even hard drugs— were available legally and America got serious about prevention and rehabilitation programs, no one could make money selling them on the street. Never mind that drugs are cheaper under the War on Drugs than they were when it started – this “war”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=30130&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steubenville and the Family Guy Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susanna Schrobsdorff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s tempting to believe that the cruel behavior of teenagers in Steubenville, Ohio, is an anomaly. And it’d be easy to blame the whole sordid mess surrounding this now famous rape case on the unique dynamics of athlete-worshiping towns. Why else would two star football players think it was O.K. to sexually assault an incapacitated 16-year-old girl while dozens of their peers looked on, laughed and uploaded photos of the rape in progress without really comprehending that it was rape? At the sentencing of the two Ohio teens convicted on Sunday, the judge, Thomas Lipps, said: “The things our children were saying and doing were profane and ugly.” But those Steubenville kids are not so different from kids across America. Before we condemn them, let&#8217;s remember they could be our children. (MORE: Steubenville Rape Guilty Verdict: The Case That Social Media Won) Every time a tragic bullying case or some other national event exposes the unpleasant underbelly of teen social media, we’re all dismayed, not just about the possible crime in question but also about the tone and tenor of the world that is revealed — whether it&#8217;s the Florida teen bullied on a new social site called Ask.fm by kids who anonymously taunted her with &#8220;Just kill yourself. Your [sic] worthless,&#8221; or by the recurring scandals brought on by the epidemic of consensual but disturbingly explicit sexting. These incidents have parents cringing. In the Steubenville case, one of the many disturbing revelations was that too many kids didn&#8217;t seem to understand that rather than make jokes or forward photos, they should do something to help the victim. But we can&#8217;t expect much from our kids when we adults seem pretty conflicted about what exactly constitutes rape — or what&#8217;s O.K. to joke about and what&#8217;s not. Up until January 2012, the FBI’s official definition included the word forcible — an effective exclusion of nonconsensual sex with a person who was incapacitated or unconscious because they were drugged or intoxicated. That has changed, but the culture might take a while to catch up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=29918&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steubenville Rape Guilty Verdict: The Case That Social Media Won</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/17/steubenville-rape-guilty-verdict-the-case-that-social-media-won/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a sickening crime that fit an all-too-familiar storyline. Young men who turned a night of partying into an ugly sexual assault. A culture in which high school football players are treated like gods and act as if no rules apply. And an innocent young woman who was abused by people she thought were friends and then humiliated. But what made the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case — which ended today with guilty verdicts against Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond — different and what made it feel cutting edge is the pervasive role the Internet played. It is a whole new kind of crime when teen sexual assault meets social media and goes blaringly, glaringly public. (MORE: Steubenville Teen Rape Case: Witness Pleads Fifth as Trial Continues) There was, to begin with, the Instagram photo of the two Steubenville High School football players holding their 16-year-old victim over a basement floor, one by her arms, one by her legs. The image, which was endlessly reblogged, has a chilling quality because we know what happened next. The young men penetrated the inebriated young woman with their fingers, which in Ohio constitutes rape. (Mays, 17, and Richmond, 16, were tried as juveniles; they could face detention until they turn 21.) There was the now infamous 12-minute video from the night of the assault.  In it, a former classmate of the young men can be seen mocking the victim, laughingly referring to her as “dead” and repeatedly joking about sexual assault. And there was nearly one more video: a classmate of the attackers testified that he took a video of part of the actual assault with his cell phone but later deleted it. And then there were all of the text messages. There were messages recounting the events of the night. One the attacker allegedly wrote: “I’m pissed all I got was a hand job, though. I should have raped since everyone thinks I did.” And messages to the victim, including one in which one of the attackers tried to persuade her that “nothing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=29827&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Gun Control Battle: A Right To Carry Firearms in Public?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/04/the-next-gun-control-battle-a-right-to-carry-firearms-in-public/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the battles going on over guns, now there is a new one: whether there is a constitutional right to carry a firearm in public. The Supreme Court has said the Second Amendment guarantees the right to have a gun at home, but it left open whether that right extends to the street. Last month, two powerful federal courts came down on opposite sides of the question. The issue will no doubt eventually land in the Supreme Court – and the stakes will be high. (MORE: If We Want Gun Control, We&#8217;ll Need to Compromise) In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned a lot of accepted wisdom about gun control when it ruled in District Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess a firearm. Until then, it was widely – if not universally – believed that the amendment was about raising “a well-regulated militia” – not about guaranteeing individuals the right to carry a gun. Still, that 2008 ruling was essentially narrow: it struck down a Washington, D.C. law that banned possession of handguns in people’s homes. Heller was a huge victory for the gun-rights movement, but it was unclear how sweeping its impact would be. There has been a flurry of cases working through the legal system trying to see just how far the constitutional right to own a gun goes. Late last month, the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that there is no Second Amendment right to carry a concealed weapon in public. A man who had been denied a concealed handgun license – because he was not a state resident – sued, insisting his constitutional rights had been violated. He said the denial had left him “completely disarmed” in public. The court rejected the man’s claim. It said that all constitutional rights come with limitations – including the Second Amendment right to be armed. And it said that the Supreme Court in Heller had specifically noted that America has a long tradition of bans on concealed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=28909&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trayvon Martin: One Year Later, Justice Remains Elusive</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/26/trayvon-martin-one-year-later-justice-remains-elusive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Touré</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year later, and we&#8217;re still waiting for justice. Trayvon is dead. He would&#8217;ve turned 18 on Feb. 5, but instead, his heart hasn&#8217;t beat in a year. George Zimmerman, the man who shot Trayvon, will be on trial this summer. A trial is what protesters and activists were demanding, instead of another black death swept under the rug as if our lives were worth less. But a trial in this particular case is not entirely justice, because there are deeper societal problems at play that mean another black kid could become the next Trayvon any day. I&#8217;m not pre-emptively convicting or judging Zimmerman, who is claiming self-defense in the face of a second-degree-murder charge. I&#8217;m just dealing with the known facts. Trayvon is dead after an interaction initiated by an armed man, a man who acted as a neighborhood vigilante and who, as we heard on a 911 call, saw Trayvon as a threat who was probably armed and on drugs. Early in that recording, he says, &#8220;This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining, and he’s just walking around looking about.&#8221; A little later, he adds, &#8220;Yeah, now he’s coming toward me. He’s got his hands in his waistband. And he’s a black male.&#8221; That perception of Trayvon as armed, drugged and criminal hits the stereotype trifecta for a young black man. If Zimmerman had not been hopped up on stereotypes and vigilantism then maybe he would&#8217;ve waited for the police. Or not followed Trayvon. (MORE: The Triumph of the Gun Fetishists) Since the killing, there has been a concerted effort by Zimmerman’s supporters to define him as Hispanic — as if this would change the case by removing the potential of racial profiling. This is a clever way of combining the &#8220;people of color can&#8217;t be racist&#8221; meme (an idea most whites usually reject) and the “one-drop rule”: a holdover from slavery that said having one drop of black blood meant you were a slave so that new slaves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=28634&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Criminals and Terrorists Can Fly Drones Too</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/31/criminals-and-terrorists-can-fly-drones-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans know their government uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, on military and intelligence missions from surveillance to assassination. But drones are no longer the sole domain of the military, and just as with many new technologies, they can easily fall into the wrong hands. (MORE: Read TIME&#8217;s cover story &#8220;The Rise of the Drones,&#8221; by Lev Grossman) Robotic machines — including drones, which are basically robots that fly — are already policing international borders, exploring deep-sea shipwrecks, repairing undersea cables and vacuuming living rooms. Robots fly, roll, swim and walk. Some carry guns and bombs. Others have superhuman strength, endurance and sensory perception. A future in which they commit crimes may yet seem like the realm of science fiction, but it is closer than you think. Criminal organizations are early adopters of technology, and some have already used UAVs and other forms of robotics to violate the law while reducing their risk of arrest and apprehension. In Latin America, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has been collaborating with narcocartels to create remote-controlled drug-smuggling submarines capable of transporting 1,800 kilos of cocaine more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) without refueling. In 2011, an al-Qaeda affiliate named Rezwan Ferdaus planned to launch an attack on the Pentagon and Capitol buildings using a remote-controlled drone aircraft laden with explosives until the FBI intercepted the plot. And just last year, criminals piloted a $600 remote-controlled quadcopter over a Brazilian prison fence to deliver cell phones to the incarcerated, as was also done in a 2009 attempt involving a drone to deliver drugs to prisoners in the U.K. A 50-ft. (15 m) electric fence may keep criminals in, but won&#8217;t keep a UAV drone out. (MORE: Is Washington Overreacting to Zero Dark Thirty?) Flying robots open up new opportunities for crime. Camera-equipped drones can and will be used for everything from the theft of industrial secrets to voyeurism by creepy neighborhood Peeping Toms. Some parents might use drones to follow their kids to school to ensure their safe arrival, but others will exploit the technology to stalk ex-husbands and ex-wives.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27293&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Was Aaron Swartz Really &#8216;Killed by the Government&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the funeral of Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet freedom crusader, Swartz’s father had a blunt message. Aaron — who committed suicide last week while being prosecuted for hacking — “was killed by the government,” he declared. The elder Swartz fanned the flames of a growing debate: Did federal prosecutors go too far in pursuing Swartz on serious felony charges, and are they in part responsible for his death? (MORE: Aaron Swartz, Tech Prodigy and Internet Activist, Is Dead at 26) Swartz, a computer prodigy, helped create Reddit but was perhaps best known as a freedom-of-information activist. In addition to campaigning against overly punitive copyright laws, he allegedly linked his laptop to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s computer system to download millions of articles from JSTOR, a paid-subscription database of academic articles. (MIT was a subscriber to JSTOR, but Swartz was not an authorized user.) Federal prosecutors in Boston charged Swartz with 13 felony counts that could have sent him to prison for more than 30 years. Since Swartz’s death — he was found hanged in his home in Brooklyn — his family, friends and allies in the information-freedom movement have put much of the blame on federal prosecutors. Swartz’s family said in a statement on an online memorial site that his death is “the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach.” In particular, they charge that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts contributed to Swartz’s death by choosing to pursue “a harsh array of charges &#8230; to punish an alleged crime that had no victims.” (MORE: Aaron Swartz&#8217;s Suicide Prompts MIT Soul-Searching) U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz pushed back Wednesday, saying that her prosecutors have a duty of “protecting the use of computers and the Internet” and that they had never intended to see the maximum sentence of 30 years given. In fact, they had offered Swartz a plea-bargain deal that would have put him in prison for only a few months — a deal he had rejected. In a blog post titled “Prosecutor as Bully,”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27539&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Real Gun Reform Doesn’t Come from the Capitol</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/15/viewpoint-real-gun-reform-doesnt-come-from-the-capitol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Liu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s now been a month and a day since the massacre at Sandy Hook. To those who favor a broad agenda of gun reform and responsibility — I am actively one of them — a month seems a long time. Reformers worry that the passage of time is the enemy of reform. The NRA is betting on it. But as Vice President Joe Biden today delivers the recommendations of his gun-violence task force to President Obama and as the press prepares for an epic confrontation in Congress, we are probably paying attention to the wrong arena. Whatever policy changes are proposed in this legislative session, citizens in local communities will be the drivers of change in our culture, and that change will take place over years, even decades, not with the stroke of a pen. (MORE: One Month After, Newtown Deals with the Physical Reminders of the Massacre) History shows that creative civic action often defines or expands the frame of the possible in policymaking. Consider the early civil rights movement, from sit-ins at lunch counters to the Freedom Riders. It took the coordinated, patient actions of lawyers, activists and everyday Americans to challenge the values of Jim Crow for years before politicians found the courage to dismantle the legal structures of Jim Crow. A century before that, abolitionists weren’t content to thunder from the pulpit; they pioneered all manner of organizing tactics and novel uses of print and song and “social media.” In our own time, consider the movement against drunk driving and the emergence of the designated driver as a lasting social and cultural phenomenon, which in turn prompted and reinforced tougher laws and law enforcement. Sometimes, citizen activists and policymakers can be symbiotic partners in changing norms. This has been the case with smoking, where pressure from legislators, lawyers, everyday Americans and the media not only altered how cigarettes are made and sold but also made smoking seem fundamentally less appealing. The epidemic of gun violence in America demands this kind of citizen-led movement. Sandy Hook revealed a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27419&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Don&#8217;t Rush to Judge on Steubenville</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/08/viewpoint-dont-rush-to-judge-on-steubenville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone questioning the idea that brutality toward women is a cultural universal might look no further than Ohio. Echoing the protests sweeping across India in recent weeks following the rape and murder of a 23-year-old New Delhi student, the tornado of outrage in Steubenville, Ohio, over an alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl by two high school football players last August has swept through social media, scattering rage and snap judgments like debris over an episode of enormous gravity that now may never be fairly resolved in a court of law. The alleged rape in Steubenville came to widespread attention through Twitter accounts and cell-phone photos publicized by the hacker group Anonymous. And while the case elicits an understandable mix of revulsion and anger, the resulting media blitzkrieg is problematic, and not just because it represents a rush to judgement. Above all, our criminal-justice system is grounded in the presumption of innocence and the guarantee of an impartial trial. This is good for defendants — and also for victims. Our legal history is full of defendants tried in the court of public opinion and later found to be innocent. Cases such as the Central Park Five, a group of teenagers excoriated by the New York City press for a brutal gang rape in the 1980s and wrongly convicted, and the 2006 instance of three Duke University lacrosse players being falsely accused of the rape of a stripper suggest that media trial by fire can happen to people across the socioeconomic spectrum. (MORE: Amherst Rape Scandal: What We Get Wrong About Sexual Assault on Campus) But we need to worry about more than just the falsely accused. An equally important reason for caution is the potential harm to the victim from a public rush to judgment. Where victims’ rights are concerned, it turns out that often the best offense is a good defense. In Delhi, the alleged rapists were interrogated at length by police, without any legal representation. Following the regional bar association’s public refusal last week to represent the defendants, a melee broke out in court: one lawyer challenged his colleagues<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27237&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rape in India: A Result of Sex Selection?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/04/rape-in-india-a-result-of-sex-selection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrific gang rape and murder of a 23-year old medical student in New Delhi may seem unrelated to fundamental demographic forces, but it isn&#8217;t. The public outcry following the victim&#8217;s death from catastrophic internal injuries has rightly focused on calls to reform India’s criminal justice system. Yesterday, five men were formally charged and the case is being put on a fast track set up in the wake of the incident to handle crimes against women, in contrast to the years of delay rape victims often face. But behind the angry protests is an even deeper story: the preference for male babies in India and much of the world may be at the root of this senseless violence. (PHOTOS: Rape sparks violent protests and calls for justice) Growing evidence suggests that in countries like India and China, where the ratio of men to women is unnaturally high due to the selective abortion of female fetuses and neglect of girl children, the rates of violence towards women increase. &#8220;The sex ratio imbalance directly leads to more sex trafficking and bride buying,&#8221; says Mara Hvistendahl, author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. A scarce resource is generally considered precious, but the lack of women also leaves many young men without marriage partners. In 2011, the number of cases of women raped rose by 9.2 percent; kidnapping and abductions of women were up 19.4 percent. &#8220;At this point, we&#8217;re talking correlation, not causation. More studies need to be done&#8230;.[But] it is clear from historical cases and from studies looking at testosterone levels that a large proportion of unmarried men in the population is not a good thing,&#8221; says Hvistendahl. In a natural state, slightly more male babies are born than females (roughly 105 male infants to 100 females). Male infants are a little more fragile than females at birth, and women generally have a slightly longer life expectancy, so absent conditions such as warfare or unequal access to health care and nutrition, we would<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27089&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is Congress Protecting the Gun Industry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Williams, a 16-year-old high school basketball star, was shot and badly injured while practicing outside of his home in Buffalo, N.Y. In October, a New York appeals court did something fairly remarkable. It let Williams proceed with a lawsuit against the maker and seller of the gun that that was used to shoot him. Letting a lawsuit go forward may not sound like a big deal, but Congress enacted a law in 2005 — under heavy lobbying from the NRA and the gun industry — that gives gun manufacturers and dealers broad immunity from being sued. The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) shields the gun industry even when it makes guns that are unnecessarily dangerous and sells them recklessly. (MORE: A Sportsman&#8217;s View: We Need a Moderate Alternative to the NRA) Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings, there have been widespread calls for Congress to pass gun control laws — and it should. But there has been less talk about another important tool that could be used to reduce gun violence: lawsuits against the gun industry. Some of these suits can succeed despite the PLCAA — as the Daniel Williams case shows — and we need more of them to be filed. But if Congress wants to get serious about gun violence, it should repeal the PLCAA. Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior. If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better. Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer. Years ago, lawsuits over the Ford Pinto’s fuel tank fires led Ford to recall the troubled car and improve the design. Since then, all sorts of consumer products — from aboveground swimming pools to children’s pajamas — have been made safer by litigation or the threat of litigation. (MORE: Cohen: If We Want<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=26865&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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