| Why web users are ‘norm entrepreneurs’ Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:45 PM PDT ![Why web users are 'norm entrepreneurs']( "Why web users are 'norm entrepreneurs'") The inventor of the World Wide Web, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, issued a special plea this week on the 29th anniversary of his creation. In an open letter, he asked web users to "work together" to prevent the internet from being "weaponized" by countries or corporations and used to spread false information. In the web's early days, entrepreneurs like Dr. Berners-Lee set the norms of the Digital Age.
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| In a Trump-country squeaker, some Democrats see a blueprint Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:06 PM PDT ![In a Trump-country squeaker, some Democrats see a blueprint]( "In a Trump-country squeaker, some Democrats see a blueprint") President Trump's surprise victory in the rust belt – and thus the presidential election – 16 months ago left many Democrats despondent that they had "lost" white working-class America. Democrat Conor Lamb's apparent narrow win Tuesday in a special House election in western Pennsylvania, in a district that Mr. Trump had won by almost 20 points, shows that there's a way for the party to win those voters back: Champion their issues. Workers' rights, wages, and protecting pensions, Social Security, and Medicare – all played to Mr. Lamb's advantage against Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone.
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| Is West winning in Afghanistan? Tide of displaced people suggests not. Posted: 14 Mar 2018 09:59 AM PDT ![Is West winning in Afghanistan? Tide of displaced people suggests not.]( "Is West winning in Afghanistan? Tide of displaced people suggests not.") Taliban militants came to her town in central Wardak province in mid-2017, and during battle with the Afghan police, burned her home and killed her husband, a farmer who was out "doing his daily routine," she says. The upheaval adds to an astonishing metric of the scale of on-going war, 16 years after American troops first arrived to oust the Taliban. Recommended: How well do you know Afghanistan?
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| Bullets across the border: Trial of US Border Patrol agent raises legal, foreign-policy issues Posted: 14 Mar 2018 02:00 AM PDT ![Bullets across the border: Trial of US Border Patrol agent raises legal, foreign-policy issues]( "Bullets across the border: Trial of US Border Patrol agent raises legal, foreign-policy issues") Luis Contreras, a doctor who lives and works in a building just south of the border fence that separates the United States from Mexico here, was playing a game on his computer late one night when an eruption of gunfire jolted him. Moments later, at 11:35 p.m., a supervisor at police headquarters in Nogales, Mexico, took a call. It was someone with the US Border Patrol who said, in Spanish, that shots had been fired and rocks hurled along a stretch of the border shared with Nogales, Ariz.
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