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America’s culture wars

Govind Persad (Stanford): What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa). Wes Vernon reviews The ObamaCare Survival Guide: The Affordable Care Act and What It Means for You and Your Healthcare by Nicholas J. Tate. Katherine Stewart on the rightwing donors who fuel America's culture wars: In general, US public opinion is trending liberal — not that you'd know it from state legislatures bought by conservative dollars. Is revolution coming to the U.S.? They tend to come in waves, triggered by wars and anti-system protests — it can happen here. There's no such thing as the liberal war on science: Michael Shermer argues that when it comes to not believing in science, Dems and Republicans are created equal — here's why he's wrong. You might call them the Billionaire Doomsday Preppers: Preparing for an economic or political collapse of the world as we know it is no longer reserved for paranoids living in flyover states who stockpile canned goods.