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Here's your monthly round-up of essays, interviews and excerpts. For more great pieces from our most influential writers, visit ThoughtMatters.co
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Policing in the Trump Era
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Barry Friedman and Thought Matters
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Barry Friedman is a leading authority on constitutional law, policing, criminal procedure, and the federal courts, and the founding director of the Policing Project. Ahead of the publication of his new book, Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission, we asked him a series of questions about his motivations for writing the book, policing after Ferguson and Snowden, the role of the technology, and policing under Trump.
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Why Your Angry Tweets Are Not Enough
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Michael Harris
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We need thinkers. Angry thinkers, sure. But also thinkers who have patience enough to puzzle out the problems beneath the sensation, the titillation, that fuels our culture of online outrage.
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Quest to Learn
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Asi Burak and Laura Parker
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One chilly morning last January, twenty-five eighth-graders sat on the floor of a classroom in a brick building in Manhattan's Chelsea district, shouting at each other. They were playing a game called Socratic Smackdown, which calls for group of four students to debate the meaning of a particular text in front of their peers.
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It Takes a School
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Jonathan Starr
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My time in Somaliland has transformed me into my own brand of extremism. The school's success is my singular goal, and its failure my only fear.
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
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Coretta Scott King as told to the Reverend Dr. Barbara Reynolds
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As a faithful teenager, it was hard for me to reconcile the lessons of Christian living I learned in church with the way whites who also called themselves Christians behaved toward us.
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