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As a child, Serge Turnier fell in love with the sounds of the carnival bands that would pass near his house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Now one of the top music producers in the country, Turnier is faced with the reality that Haitian law offers little protection for music copyrights and he must decide whether to quit the music business altogether, in order to provide financial security for his family.A musician is not even recognized as a real job here in Haiti. You're just nothing in eye of the law.  -- Serge Turnier, music producer and composer in HaitiOne of the basic jobs of every government is to protect property rights, meaning if you own this piece of land or you build this house, no one can just come and take those things from you. Property rights are pretty clear cut when it comes to things – like land and houses – but less so when it comes to ideas. Can someone really own an image, or own a song? Here in the United States, the answer is yes, absolutely. But that isn’t the case everywhere.The Gift and Curse of Music - Haiti’s Fight for Copyright - is the story of Serge Turnier, a music producer and composer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Just last year, he produced a half dozen carnival songs himself, working with top artists in the Haitian music industry. But what he didn’t realize in his childhood dreams, was that Haitian law does not protect copyrights for songs, making it almost impossible to make money from recorded music.Suggested Reading and Viewing: Democracy of Sound, Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century, Alex Sayf CummingsGood Copy, Bad Copy (2007) Copyright and Culture, The Documentary NetworkThe Gift and Curse of Music - Haiti’s fight for Copyright, was reported and produced by Ian Coss. Tony Gannon and Nancy Mullane co-edited the story. Our Senior Producer is Tony Gannon. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain. Jim Bennett at KQED Radio in San Francisco was our engineer.Original music in this episode was composed by Ian Coss, with additional music provided by Powersurge. Special thanks to the the organization Ayiti Mizik, which supported our research on the Haitian copyright system and to the podcast Afropop Worldwide who co-produced this episode with Life of the Law.

"Every criminal trial is a competition between the prosecution and the defense. The judge has relatively less dominant role than in other countries and a lot of times, we have the guilt and innocence of people decided by juries, unless of course there's a plea bargain. This means prosecutors are crucially important because they're the ones who decide whether a case is going to go through, and what shape that case is going to take."- Hadar Aviram, Professor of Law, UC HastingsThis week on Life of the Law, our team met up in the studios of KQED to talk about the law, moral luck, and prosecutorial discretion in America.Hadar Aviram, Professor of Law at UC Hastings and a member of our Advisory Panel of Scholars; Brittny Bottorff, Attorney with the Mayor Law Group and Chair of our Advisory Board; Tony Gannon, Life of the Law's Senior Producer; Jessica McKellar, software developer, author, and member of our Advisory Board; Nancy Mullane, Life of the Law's Executive Producer and host; and Osagie Obasogie Professsor at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. Production Notes:In-Studio: Prosecuting Discretion was edited and produced by Tony Gannon. Special thanks to Hadar Avisram, Brittny Bottorff, Tony Gannon, Jessica McKellar, Nancy Mullane, and Osagie Obasogie for joining us at KQED studios in San Francisco.Our post production editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.  Music in this episode was composed by Ian Coss. Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco was our engineer.This episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by grants from the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal prosecutors stepped in.Reporter Mary Lee Williams, a graduate of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, tells the whole messy story of some people who got caught up in two different systems of laws, and two prosecutors who saw their crime from two very different perspectives, with long term consequences. Our story… Ten Hours to Twenty Years.Ten hours to Twenty Years was reported and produced by Marylee Williams. Tony Gannon senior produced this episode. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain. Ceil Mueller at KQED Radio in San Francisco was our engineer.  Music in this episode was composed by David Szets-shey, Jah-zzar, the Losers, Blue Dot Sessions, Podington Bear, and April.Special thanks to UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Ben Manilla, and Editors Anna Sussman, Kara Platoni, and Julie Caine. We had background research from University of Detroit Mercy Law School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law Richard Broughton. We also had editorial assistance from Lacy Jane Roberts, Teresa Cotsirilos, and Jennifer Glenfield. Special thanks to Harlan Haskins, Megan Dunbar, and Armin Samii.We’re a non-profit project of the Tides Center and we’re part of the Panoply Network of Podcasts. You can also find Life of the Law on PRX, Public Radio Exchange. Production of this episode was funded in part by the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley; the Law and Society Association; the National Science Foundation and by you.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

It's been more than 45 years since a thousand inmates at Attica Prison (Correctional Facility) in New York took control of the prison. In her 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy, Professor Heather Thompson pieces "together the whole, gripping story, from the conditions that gave rise to the rebellion, which cost the lives of 43 men, to the decades of government obstructionism that prevented the full story from being told." (NYTimes) If you listened to our most recent Episode 114: In-Studio-Locking People Up, you know we're talking about the fact that more than 2.2 million people are locked up in America's prisons and jails. We invited scholars who have spent their professional lives researching and reporting on this crisis of incarceration, and a man who was incarcerated in California for more than 20 years, to join us in the studios of KQED in San Francisco to talk about how we got here and what it would take to make a safe and humane society.Immediately after our conversation at KQED, Troy Williams and scholars Rebecca McClennan, Keramet Reiter, Ashley Rubin and Heather Thompson drove to San Quentin State Prison about an hour away, to go inside the prison for a round-table (recorded) discussion with men locked up, to talk about their right to be heard and to protest behind the walls.We begin with an introduction by Shadeed Wallce Stepter, producer of this episode, a reporter with the San Quentin Prison Report and Chair of the San Quentin Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

America is a nation that locks up more people per capita than any other country in the world.  The Sentencing Project reports 2.2 million people are incarcerated in America's prisons. That's a 500% increase over the past 40 years. The Institute for Criminal Policy Research in London reports America locks up 670 people per 100,000. Russia locks up 439 per 100,000. Rwanda 434 per 100,000. China 118 per 100,000. How in the world did this happen? Are Americans criminally prone? Or has America's desire for security and tough sentencing policies lost its way?This week on Life of the Law we ask scholars who have studied the history and changing conditions of prisons, and a man who was incarcerated for more than 20 years, to join us in the studios of KQED in San Francisco -- to talk about the social, financial and cultural impact of mass incarceration and what change would look like. Osagie Obasogieis Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, author of Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind and is a member of Life of the Law's Advisory Board  Ashley Rubinis Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and is author of the soon to be published book, The Deviant Prison: Eastern State Penitentiary and the Advantage of Difference, 1829-913.  Keramet Reiter is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Law at UC Irvine and is author of 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement. Keramet Reiter has a forthcoming book with Oxford Press, Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Mass Incarceration (2017).  She is currently conducting research in Danish prisons, about prison culture and solitary confinement practices, and in Washington State, about solitary confinement reforms.http://cls.soceco.uci.edu/Troy Williamsis a journalist and the new editor of SF Bay View and while incarcerated founded the San Quentin Prison Report.Rebecca McClennanis Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley and is author of Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century and The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941.Heather Ann Thompsonis Professor of History at the University of Michigan and won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy.Please visit our website: www.lifeofthelaw.org for suggested supplemental reading© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

What does it take to win an NBA Championship? On Monday night, June 12th, Oakland's Golden State Warriors, aka "Dub Nation" silenced the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the 2017 NBA Championship. Three days later, thousands of diverse, loyal, cheering, screaming fans filled the streets of Oakland to celebrate a victory many felt belonged as much to them, as to the players. For now at least. After 40 years homed in Oakland, the Warriors are moving across the Bay to a new arena in San Francisco.Life of the Law goes "In-Studio" to try and sort it all out -- the controversial calls of Game 5, winning team dynamics, playing by the rules, and the gentrification of team sports.LOTL's Osagie Obasogie, Nancy Mullane and Brittny Bottorff are joined "in-studio" at KQED by Fast Break blogger and attorney Adam Lauridsen.And...in case you missed Episode 111: NBA Champion GS Warriors vs SQ Warriors -- our feature story on the annual basketball game played between the Golden State Warriors and the San Quentin Warriors inside the prison on the lower yard, now's your chance. Listen to our post-game interview with the Warriors Draymond Green after he visits the prison cells to see first hand the inmate's living conditions.Life of the Law co-produced the story with the amazing Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva for NPR's All Things Considered. Production Notes:In-Studio: Dub Nation was edited and produced by Tony Gannon. Special thanks to Brittny Bottorff, Osagie Obasogie and Adam Lauridsen for joining us at KQED studios in San Francisco.Our post production editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.  Music in this episode was composed by David Jassy. Jim Bennett and Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco were our engineers.This episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by grants from the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

It's official! The Golden State Warriors are the 2017 NBA Champions! Life of the Law honors the team and each of the players with this special episode.One day a year, the Golden State Warriors' coaches, managers, and players go behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison for a game on the prison's lower yard against the San Quentin Warriors, a team of hard-driving inmates. And like all real basketball, it's an annual battle of will and determination against time and rules. "I love coming in here. Although I'd never seen a cell.That's the scariest thing I've seen. A cell. Where the prisoners stay. I had never seen one of those. That's serious. If you ever want deterrence show somebody what that is. That's small. "  -- Bob Myers, Golden State Warriors General Manger after visiting the cells in San Quentin's North BlockYou may have heard the story we co-produced with the Kitchen Sisters that aired on NPR's All Things Considered. If you missed it, now's your chance to hear that story and for listeners of Life of the Law, an exclusive post-game visit by Draymond Green to the inmates cells to see what life inside the San Quentin is like for the men he knows from the yard.NBA Champions GS Warriors vs SQ WarriorsLife of the Law's exclusive interview inside San Quentin State Prison with Golden State Warriors Draymond Green, Warriors General Manager Bob Myers, and  San Quentin's Curtis Carroll "Wall Street."Production NotesNBA Champions GS Warriors vs San Quentin Warriors was reported by Nancy Mullane and produced by Tony Gannon and theKitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva.Special thanks to Bob Myers, Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, and Raymond Ridder with  The Golden State Warriors; Lt. Sam Robinson, San Quentin Public Information Officer; Louis Scott of San Quentin Media; Zsa-Zsa Rensch and Phil Green; Curtis Carroll ("Wall Street"), and Jim McKee. Thanks also to Questlove, Fantastic Negrito, Too Short, and David Jassy for their music. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain. Our engineer was Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco.Opening Music Credit:Fantastic Negrito, 'About a Bird.'Written and Produced by Xavier Dphrepaulezz  Piano and Organ by Lionel Holoman Bass Guitar by Cornelius Mims Guitar by Masa Kohama Additional Guitar by Xavier Dphrepaulezz Vocals by Xavier Dphrepaulezz  Engineered by Alexandro Maloles and Jabari Tawiah Mixed by Matt Winegar Mastered by Dave McNair Publishing by Angry Ant Publishing Art by Nick FrancisThis episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by donations from our listeners and by grants from the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws."  In 2017 America, does every person have equal protection under the law, or not?Over the past month, Life of the Law presented Sarah Marshall's two part report on the life and execution of Warren McCleskey.Unequal Protection Part 1Unequal Protection Part 2Warren McCleskey was a black man living in Georgia. He was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the robbery of a furniture store and the murder of a white police officer. He appealed his death sentence all the way to the US Supreme Court in the case, McCleskey v Kemp on the grounds that he was sentenced to die because he was black. McCleskey's attorneys presented evidence known as the Baldus Study -- evidence, statistics, data -- to prove that blacks disproportionately received death sentences when the murder victims were white, that the color of skin and racial prejudice directly affected his death sentence, and many other death sentences in Georgia.Four of the Court’s justices accepted the evidence that Warren’s right to equal protection under the law as guaranteed by the US Constitution had been violated. But 5 of the justices rejected Warren’s evidence and in 1991, Warren McCleskey was executed.To many legal scholars, the court’s disturbing 5-4 ruling in McCleskey v Kemp was the beginning of the end of equal protection under the law in America.We took Sarah's reports and the Supreme Court's 1987 5-4 ruling on McCleskey V Kemp inside San Quentin State Prison to talk with men charged, convicted and sentenced about race, equal protection, and criminal justice in 2017 America.Production Notes:In-Studio San Quentin State Prison was edited and produced by Shadeed Wallace Stepter and Tony Gannon. We want to thank Shadeed Wallace Stepter, Rahsaan Thomas, and Emile DeWeaver of the Society of Professional Journalists, San Quentin; Osagie Obasogie, Life of the Law’s Advisory Board Member and Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health; Lt. Sam Robinson, San Quentin State Prison Public Information Officer; and Larry Schneider, Media Advisor, San Quentin State Prison, for making production and publication of this episode, possible.Our post production editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.  Music in this episode was composed by Ian Coss. Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco was our engineer.This episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by grants from the Open Society Foundations, the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

Last time on Life of the Law we presented Unequal Protection - Part 1, the story of Warren McCleskey’s unsuccessful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. McCleskey argued that his death sentence by the state of Georgia had been prejudiced by the color of skin and that he had not been given equal protection under the law as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.Walking into the prison, I was the first one. I walked in and his lawyers were walking toward me.  I was looking at them and I said, 'What’s wrong?' They said, Tthey denied him.' And I just dropped to the floor. Just screaming and crying and like, they didn’t even take time to think this through. They really gonna kill my dad.-- Carla McCleskeyThis week, we present Part 2 of Sarah Marshall’s report on Warren’s McCleskey’s life after the Supreme Court ruling and his execution on September 25, 1991 by the state of Georgia.Production NotesUnequal Protection was reported by Sarah Marshall, edited by Nancy Mullane, and produced by our Senior Producer, Tony Gannon. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.Our engineers were Paul Ruet of Argot Studios in San Francisco and Katie McMurran of KQED Radio in San Francisco. Music in this episode was composed and produced by Ian Coss.Transcript of Unequal Protection: Part 2This episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by grants from the Open Society Foundations, the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

America is a country plagued by racism. Culturally, socially, economically. But what about in the courts? 30 years ago, Warren McCleskey, a black man on Georgia’s death row, took proof to the US Supreme Court that his trial and sentence had been affected by racial prejudice. It’s a landmark case that nearly every law student in American is familiar with -- but few of us know the whole story.And I sort of said, "Well, Gird up your loins. If that’s, in fact, a problem in our criminal justice system, we have to confront it. We can’t simply avert our eyes."-- Attorney John Boger Life of the Law reporter Sarah Marshall traveled to Georgia to learn more about the man whose name has come to symbolize the end of equal protection under the law in America.  We’ll present our story in two parts. This week, Part 1: UNEQUAL PROTECTION. Production NotesUnequal Protection was reported by Sarah Marshall, edited by Nancy Mullane, and produced by Tony Gannon. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.Our engineers were Sara Melason of Marfa Public Radio and Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco. Music in this episode was composed and produced by Ian Coss. Special thanks to Tony Gannon, our Senior Producer for recording Supreme Court Justice William Brennan's dissent in McCleskey v Kemp for our story.Transcript of Unequal Protection: Part 1This episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by grants from the Open Society Foundations, the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. This week we're talking about our most recent episode Mother and Son, the role of corporal punishment in the house, and the recent United Airlines situation.Each month we present an investigative feature report and two weeks later our team -- a scholar, journalist, producer, and attorney -- meet up in the studios of KQED in San Francisco to talk about our investigative reports, the law in the news, and the law on our minds. Join us for this month's In-Studio conversation: Brittny Bottorff  Attorney and Chair of LOTL Advisory Board Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle  LOTL's Post-Production Editor Nancy Mullane  LOTL's Executive Producer and Host Osagie Obasogie  Scholar and LOTL Advisory Board MemberHave a story or a question about the law you'd like us to bring to our next  In Studio? Send us an email at connect@lifeofthelaw.org.Stories we're talking about...or want to talk about:Each time our team meets up In-Studio, we bring stories that are in the news and on our minds -- that we want to talk about, and get help sorting out.We don't have time to discuss all of the stories on the table, but we're sharing them with you: 'Raise the Age,’ Now Law in New York, Is Still a Subject of Debate Raise the Age, NY Spanking and crime rates Does Outlawing Spanking Lower The Crime Rate Years Later? The Influence of Corporal Punishment on Crime Production NotesLife of the Law In-Studio: Mother and Son was produced by Nancy Mullane, Life of the Law's Executive Producer and our Senior Producer, Tony Gannon. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.We want to thank our Advisory Board Members Brittny Bottorff and Osagie Obasogie for joining us In-Studio.Our engineer was Katie McMurran of KQED Radio in San Francisco. Music in this episode was composed by Ian Coss.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

Prison is a walled off, secret world, where inmates and officers live a sort of altered reality. For the past 10 years Life of the Law's Executive Producer, Nancy Mullane, has been reporting on the people inside San Quentin State Prison in Northern California and over those years, some of the men she's been reporting on have themselves become journalists -- writing print stories for the San Quentin News and producing audio stories for the San Quentin Prison Report, stories told by reporters rom the unique perspective of life inside prison looking out, rather than from the perspective of free journalists outside looking in.One day after a meeting of the Society of Professional Journalists San Quentin, reporter Greg Eskridge mentioned he was going to miss the next Sunday meeting. He said his mom was coming to San Quentin for a visit.  How long had he been in prison, Mullane asked? More than 21 years. He said he was sent to prison at the age of 19 after being convicted of murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 65 years-to-life, and two life terms.What’s it like to be a teenager sent to prison for what may be forever, and what’s it like to be his mom?Our story is Mother and Son.Production NotesMother and Son was reported by Nancy Mullane and produced by our Senior Producer, Tony Gannon.Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.Our engineer was Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco. Music in this episode was composed and produced by Ian Coss.Transcript of Mother and SonThis episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by grants from the Open Society Foundations, the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.© Copyright 2017 Life of the Law. All rights reserved.

Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump's new budget and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one conversation? Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law.Each month we present an investigative feature report and two weeks later our team -- a scholar, journalist, producer and attorney meet up in the studios of KQED in San Francisco to talk about our investigative reports, the law in the news and the law on our minds. Join us for this month's IN-STUDIO conversation: Brittny Bottorff  Attorney and Chair of LOTL Advisory Board Tony Gannon  LOTL's Senior Producer Nancy Mullane  LOTL's Executive Producer and Host Osagie Obasogie  Scholar and LOTL Advisory Board MemberHave a story or a question about the law you'd like us to bring to our next  In Studio? Send us an email at connect@lifeofthelaw.org.Production NotesLife of the Law IN-STUDIO: Heroin Town was produced by Nancy Mullane, Life of the Law's Executive Producer and our Senior Producer, Tony Gannon. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.We want to thank our Advisory Board Members Brittny Bottorff and Osagie Obasogie for joining us IN-STUDIO.Our engineers were Katie McMurran and Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco. Music in this episode was composed by Ian Coss.

Heroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a legal alternative, such as methadone. But methadone treatment doesn’t always work. So what do you do?These people are currently injecting heroin in alleyways, facing overdose and risk of disease and causing all kinds of problems for the public. Why wouldn't you want them to be getting the heroin from a doctor to bring them in off the street and in contact with the health care system?-- Martin Schechter, professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British ColumbiaReporters Sam Fenn and Gordon Katic have this story about a small clinic in Vancouver BC that’s giving their patients legal access the very drug they are addicted to.Production NotesHeroin Town was reported and produced by Sam Fenn, Gordon Katic, and Alexander Kim of Cited Podcast in partnership with Travis Lupick and the Georgia Straight, and edited by Nancy Mullane, Life of the Law's Executive Producer.The story's Senior Producer was Tony Gannon. Our Post Production Editors are Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle and Rachael Cain.We want to thank Josh Gabert-Doyon for his help with production.Our engineer was Howard Gelman of KQED Radio in San Francisco. Music in this episode was composed and produced by Ian Coss.Transcript of Heroin TownThis episode of Life of the Law was funded in part by grants from the Open Society Foundations, the Law and Society Association, and the National Science Foundation.

Welcome to In-Studio from Life of the Law. Each month we present an investigative feature report, and two weeks later our team of scholars, journalists, producers and guests will meet up in the studios of KQED in San Francisco to ask questions and get some answers about the law, or at least start to look for some answers.Do you have questions about the law you'd like us to discuss? Write to us at Life of the Law with your stories and questions about the law, connect@lifeofthelaw.org.This month join our In Studio team for a conversation about the law: Brittny Bottorff  Attorney and Chair, LOTL Advisory Board Tony Gannon  LOTL Senior Producer Nancy Mullane  LOTL Exec Producer and Host Osagie Obasogie  Scholar and LOTL Advisory Board Member Kirsten Jusewicz Haidle  LOTL Post Production Editor Each time our team meets up, we bring stories in the news that are on our minds - stories we have questions about and want help sorting out. This week our team brought the stories listed below to our In Studio conversation. Civil Rights Groups, Funded by Telecoms, Back Donald Trump’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Net Neutrality And Broadband Privacy Under The New FCC The Debate Over Net Neutrality Has Its Roots in the Fight Over Radio Freedom New York Times issued weaselly statement on reporter who smeared Melania Trump The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies California lawmakers are stuck on Trump, but there's a problem at home that needs attention: dirty water Henrietta Lacks’s family wants compensation for her cells Broad Institute Wins Big Battle Over CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent An Outdated Law Will Decide the CRISPR Patent Dispute