Meital Pinto (Carmel): Taking Language Rights Seriously. Mechthild Nagel (SUNY-Cortland): Beyond the Pale: Reflections on the Vulnerability of Black Life in the U.S. Deborah Tuerkheimer (Northwestern): Consent Culture and the Forgotten Law of Rape. Allison Benedikt and Hanna Rosin on the missing men: Why didn’t Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely talk to the alleged perpetrators of a gang rape at the University of Virginia? Rebecca Traister on how Rolling Stone's UVA rape story has problems, but don't let them obscure the appalling truth. #WhyISpokeOut and #WhyIStayedSilent: Susan J. Brison, author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, on why she spoke out about one rape but stayed silent about another. Ana Marie Cox on the plea and promise of “hands up”. Dan Froomkin on 12 things to keep in mind when you read the soon-to-be-released Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report. Can a wonk run a war? Ash Carter is a scholar, a bureaucrat — and the opposite of Chuck Hagel. Warehouse Empire: Behind the largest undercover bribe the FBI ever paid to a public official is the story of how our whole consumer economy has been transformed, bringing lung-stunting pollution and, in some cases, political corruption. The Age of Dingdong: David Cairns tells the story of an unholy sacrifice, a Boy Scout troop, and the lengths the mega-rich would go for power. The Ground Zero Mosque was an inside job: The infamously tone deaf plans for an Islamic community center just blocks away from 9/11's Ground Zero came to define the midterm elections of 2010 — this is the weird story of who funded that mess. And from Bookforum’s 20th anniversary issue, Jim Sleeper reviews All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn by Jason Sokol.
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