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Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight years of experience editing and writing for both brands and online publications—with a particular focus on travel, fashion, and lifestyle. She’s also the ...

Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia University and the author of The Constitution of the War on Drugs. After decades of waging a ruinous and counterproductive war on drugs ...

Leading tech companies are in a race to release and improve artificial intelligence (AI) products, leaving users in the United States to puzzle out how much of their personal data could be extracted ...