Don Waisanen (Baruch): Comedian-in-Chief: Presidential Jokes as Enthymematic Crisis Rhetoric. David B. Wilkins and Bryon Fong (Harvard) and Ronit Dinovitzer (Toronto): The Women and Men of Harvard Law School: The Preliminary Results from the HLS Career Study. Suzy Khimm on the real Democratic primary: Hillary versus the media. A leaked report profiles military, police members of outlaw motorcycle gangs. Activist DeRay McKesson: Only whiteness “gets nuance” in the media. Color-blind policy, color-conscious morality: Ta-Nehisi Coates on how addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. These women have crossed the line: 30 activists cross North Korea DMZ for peace. A look at how Republicans are finally having the reckoning that is long overdue on the issue of Iraq. Take that, American companies with product names that sound as though they come from the language of a country that disagreed with the U.S. on a foreign-policy issue. Dear conservatives: Enough already with the insufferable concern-trolling over the minimum wage. Your cyberpunk games are dangerous: Jon Peterson on how roleplaying games and fantasy fiction confounded the FBI, confronted the law, and led to a more open web. Buyer still beware: Libertarians think the “perfect information” of the Internet will make regulation obsolete — they are so, so wrong.
