Tara Marie Dankel (Harvard): To Become Again What We Never Were: Foucault and the Politics of Transformation. Daniel Folkinshteyn (Rowan), Mark M Lennon (URI), and Timothy Reilly (Penn State): The Bitcoin Mirage: An Oasis of Financial Remittance. Alberto F. Alesina (Harvard) and Ugo Troiano and Traviss Cassidy (Michigan): Old and Young Politicians. Keith W. Rizzardi (St. Thomas): Sunburned: How Misuse of the Public Records Laws Creates an Overburdened, More Expensive, and Less Transparent Government. From ThinkProgress, Justin Salhani on the tricky business of combating the Islamic State in Minneapolis-St. Paul; and on how the Islamic State seeks to capitalize on murders in Texas (and more). Don't call the hateful Muhammad Art Exhibit attacked in Texas a “free speech event”. Leaked email from Marvel CEO is a listicle about why women can’t be superheroes. Feminist artifacts: Nathan Smith on the archive of Germaine Greer. Lee Fang on how Corinthian Colleges secretly funded D.C. think tanks, dark money election efforts. “Hillary is the worst option”: Max Fisher on how Moscow sees American politics. The Last Culture Warrior: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig on why Mike Huckabee will lose, and what it means for evangelicals. Adrien Schless-Meier on white people and the zero-sum game of racial politics. Lewis Jones on what the world’s billion guns are used for. The computers are listening: Dan Froomkin on how the NSA converts spoken words into searchable text.
