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Options can be exhausting

Dan T. Coenen (Georgia): Two-Time Presidents and the Vice-Presidency (“Does the Constitution limit the ability of a twice-before-elected President to serve as Vice-President?”) A modest proposal: Barack Obama should be Hillary Clinton’s running mate. Erik Loomis on all the Hillaries: The real lesson to take from Hillary Clinton for progressives is that no one should see a president as the person who will solve their problems. Hamilton Nolan on the Platonic ideal of horse race journalism. The new nuclear age: A quarter of a century after the end of the cold war, the world faces a growing threat of nuclear conflict. The International Criminal Court is now run by three women — Shanti Sattler and Eliott Behar on why that matters. The gender pay gap is bad — the gender pay gap for women of color is even worse. The System: Two new histories show how the Nazi concentration camps worked. Does the Internet really make public shaming worse?: An excerpt from Is Shame Necessary by Jennifer Jacquet. Kari Paul on the history of sex.com, the most contested domain on the Internet. Endless options can be exhausting — Cass Sunstein on why we need to know when choice matters. Andrew Benedict-Nelson reviews Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski. The War Nerd on the Confederates who should’ve been hanged. You can say what you want about modern American libertarianism, but at least it’s an ethos!