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How torture became unspeakable yet defensible in Washington

A living interactive publication grapples with the dimensions, roots and consequences of inequality in the United States

Two years ago, Reddit held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Stephen Hawking (January 8, 1942-March 14, 2018). In this session the renowned physicist talked about the promise and risk of AI, technological unemployment, and more.

Now, the biggest generation is the Millennials, born between 1983 and 2000. They face a world that is richer and more unfair. Here's how they fix it.

Once the provenance of teens, counterculturalists or authors who were fans, comics are now entrenched in academic discourse in what the essayist calls, "the theorizing of a kind of artistic poetics." The book under review ably looks at nonfiction comics as apt reflections on modern social ills.