Interns' Favorite Articles of the Week, 10/4/13

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—Aaron Cantú focuses on the War on Drugs and mass incarceration, social inequality and post-capitalist institutional design. … This brilliant, thought-provoking piece parodies the way the American media portray events taking place in other countries …
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Federal shutdown in 3rd day with Obama, Hill at impasse

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WASHINGTON, DC >> The government limped into a third day of partial shutdown Thursday with no sign of a way out after a White House conversation between President Barack Obama and top congressional leaders seemed only to harden the stances of …
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Light-up Nation: What Israel can teach America about medical marijuana

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The Cohen home soon became a temple in the area for believers in the healing powers of cannabis — a legendary family operation that, in this early golden era, served as a grow house, a pharmacy and a treatment center all in one. …. State and city …
Read more on The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.