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Bruce R. Huber (Notre Dame): The Fair Market Value of Public Resources. Greenland hits record 75 F, sets melt record as globe aims at hottest year. Was the Orlando shooting a hate crime or terrorist act? The answer matters. We politicize everything else in the lives of LGBTQ people — why not Orlando? Jeffrey Beall on the weaknesses of journal whitelists. David Brown on how Alexander Hamilton solved America’s gun problem — 228 years ago. What happens when robots are assigned ethnicities? Pleasure is good: Marie-Anne Suizzo on how French children acquire a taste for life. This looks like the DNC’s hacked Trump oppo file. America’s whites only weed boom: Black Americans were disproportionately targeted in the “war on drugs” — now state laws and steep regulatory costs have left them far more likely to be shut out of America’s profitable marijuana boom.