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On the rise again

A new issue of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation is out. Conor Foley (Nottingham): The Evolving Legitimacy of Humanitarian Interventions. Donald L. Drakeman (Cambridge): What's the Point of Originalism? Shawn W. Rosenberg (UC-Irvine): Citizen Competence and the Psychology of Deliberation. Fred Thompson and Polly S. Rizova (Willamette): How Government Creates Value. Shahar Hameiri (Murdoch): The Crisis of Liberal Peacebuilding and the Future of Statebuilding. Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia) and Ghazali Musa and S. Moghavvemi (Malaya): The Price of the Current Civilisation. Dwight Read (UCLA): Incest Taboos and Kinship: A Biological or a Cultural Story? Roy Edroso on how the conservative impeachment crusade is metastasizing thus. David Dayen on how Congress is blowing a huge opportunity to rebuild America. Avi Shlaim reviews Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories by Ahron Bregman. Steven H. Wright on how voter discrimination just got easier. From the Boston Globe’s Ideas section, Ruth Graham on how the American playground was born in Boston: As children’s play spaces evolve, the spirit behind the original 19th-century “sand garden” is on the rise again; and Leon Neyfakh on how the elevator transformed America: The unsung conveyance that threw us together — and allowed us to build up. A peek into the IMF machine: Gillian Tett on how Liaquat Ahamed lifts the lid on the subtle symbols that signal hierarchy, tribal affiliation and power. The only people who are likely to be hurt by the prospects of a smaller population are the "it's hard to find good help" crowd.