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2012: Pussy Riot Anti-Putin Protests

2012: Pussy Riot

With colorful ski masks, explicit lyrics and mosh pit–ready dance moves, the feminist collective known as Pussy Riot grew out of the protest movement that peaked in Moscow in early 2012, the first street-level challenge to the reign of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The group’s viral videos mixed punk rock…
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March 5, 2020
2010: Nancy Pelosi Obamacare

2010: Nancy Pelosi

For about a century, politicians tried and failed to create a program offering universal access to health care in America. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, it finally happened. But while the bill was widely nicknamed Obamacare, it wouldn’t have gotten done without the Speaker…
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March 5, 2020
CORONAVIRUS VS. THE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE: WHICH POSES THE GREATER THREAT? Pre-Crime

CORONAVIRUS VS. THE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE: WHICH POSES THE GREATER THREAT?

“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your…
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March 5, 2020
1963: Rachel Carson Nuclear Weapons

1963: Rachel Carson

There was a time when a book could change the world. Biologist and writer Rachel Carson’s early works about the ocean were besotted with life. But her fourth book, Silent Spring, was a searing indictment of synthetic ­pesticides—grim nerve agents for insects like DDT that she called “elixirs of death.”…
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March 5, 2020
1954: Marilyn Monroe New York City

1954: Marilyn Monroe

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe—already a sex symbol and a movie star—posed on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street in New York City, for a scene intended to appear in her 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. The breeze blowing up through a subway grate sent her white dress…
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March 5, 2020