Rafael Bittencourt (PUC Minas): Is There a BRICS Model of Development? Steven J. Brams (NYU) and D. Marc Kilgour (Wilfrid Laurier): Voting Power in the Electoral College: The Noncompetitive States Count, Too. Mary Whisner (Washington): There Oughta Be a Law: A Model Law. David Jancsics (CUNY): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Corruption. Mariano Mosquera (Harvard): Negotiation Games in the Fight Against Corruption. From The Ethics Forum, a special issue on corruption and democracy. Dylan Matthews on 7 times militaries have shot down civilian planes. Think before you act: Steven Poole is against the modern cult of spontaneity. The Global Agenda Council on the Arctic has highlighted five particularly pervasive myths about the region. SooJin Lee reviews Pink Globalisation: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific by Christine R. Yano. Matt O'Brien on the intellectual cesspool of the inflation truthers. From the Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics, Nick Ergodos on the enigma of probability. Sarah Dry on the secret writings of Isaac Newton: The physicist's private religious and alchemical musings have tantalised scholars for centuries. Nigel Smith on his book A Collection of Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution. Former Vice President Dick Cheney seems reinvigorated as he takes on President Obama, the Clintons, radical Islam, Rand Paul, his own party and history — but to many, he is a punch line. Lee Fang on the real reason pot is still illegal: Opponents of marijuana-law reform insist that legalization is dangerous — but the biggest threat is to their own bottom line. The great pot experiment: Legalising a drug is harder than it looks. Jacob Heilbrunn on the Ukraine plane disaster: If Russia connivance at destroying the airplane is proven, then this could become a new Lusitania moment for the U.S. (and more)
