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Big Tomato Backs Gary Johnson, Microsoft Backs Bitcoin for People, Yale Students Fight to 'Decolonize' Poetry Class: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.1.2016 9:00 AM


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  • Tomato tycoon Chris Rufer is donating at least $1 million to a pro-Gary Johnson super-PAC. 
  • Yale University students are fighting to "decolonize" their poetry courses. 
  • Raids, cover-ups, and magical dogs: inside the Columbia, South Carolina, police files. 
  • Jimmy Carter has feels about prostitution.  
  • Microsoft is working with Blockstack Labs and ConsenSys to develop an "open source, self-sovereign, blockchain-based identity system that allows people, products, apps, and services to interoperate across blockchains, cloud providers, and organizations." 
  • Men and women prove equally assertive on Facebook.
  • "I don't hold back that I'll be voting for Donald Trump in November," Fox News host Sean Hannity said Tuesday evening. 
  • Maine cracks down on rogue midwives. 

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.