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Crowdsourcing The U.S. Budget To Find Common Fiscal Ground

Supreme Court's First Argument of the Season

Swatch wants to clean Costco's clock over U.S. copyright infringement. Medical schools want the IRS to categorize residents as students to skirt Social Security and Medicare taxes. In other words: business as usual for this year's ...READ»

Anti-corporate vs. Anti-government Anger: Who to Trust?

This post is not a partisan polemic intended to attack those who hold different views than I. Rather, it is an honest attempt to understand the reasoning behind those who have divergent beliefs about the anti-corporate and anti-government anger that is currently being expressed so viscerally by so many people in America. I hope that this post can act as a springboard for a substantial (and respectful) conversation about these forces that are growing in our society.READ»

On Facebook? New Algorithm Can Guess Your SSN

Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can reverse engineer a person's Social Security number using, ironically, nothing more than data from publicly available data on government sites, and the data you share ...READ»