Stephanie K. Pell (Stanford) and Christopher Soghoian (Yale): Your Secret Stingray's No Secret Anymore: The Vanishing Government Monopoly Over Cell Phone Surveillance and Its Impact on National Security and Consumer Privacy. Tanya Asim Cooper (Alabama): Racial Bias in American Foster Care: The National Debate. Sascha-Dominik Oliver Vladimir Bachmann (Bournemouth): Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: The Day Russia Became a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Recent events in Ukraine are only the latest test of one’s foreign-policy chops; calls abound for U.S. intervention in one place after another, but with Iraq in shambles, intervention has become a tougher sell — and that’s a good thing. Michael Singh on the Islamic State's triple threat. Jack Jenkins on the book that really explains ISIS (Hint: It’s not the Qur’an). A look at what we found on the Islamic State's Laptop of Doom: Screenshots from a jihadi's personal computer. Defeating ISIS: Brian Katulis, Hardin Lang, and Vikram Singh on an integrated strategy to advance Middle East stability. Daniel W. Drezner on what political science can tell us about combating the Islamic State. Jaeah Lee on the data that shows cops kill black people at a higher rate than white people. "Mandated paid maternity leave? You don't understand that to be a huge transfer of resources from unmarried men to everyone else?" DARPA may have a way to stop Ebola in its tracks — if only the U.S. had the boldness to try it. From Vanity Fair, a look at The New Establishment 2014 (and Annie Lowrey on why disruptors are always white guys). Ezra Klein on the 9 most important facts about the 2014 election. Are unions dead? Jonathan Cohn interviews Rich Yeselson, labor strategist and expert. Jeffrey Kluger on why narcissists have more sex: Evolution favors the manipulative and self-absorbed.
