Danijela Prosic-Santovac (Novi Sad): Happily Ever After: (De)Constructing Cultural Values across Centuries. Rob Koons (Texas): Political Representation, Human Nature, and the Problem of Scale. Jeroen J. J. Van den Bosch (Adam Mickiewicz): Mapping Political Regime Typologies. Timothy M. Ravich (UCF): Aeropolitics and Open Skies. Cubans really don’t like Marco Rubio. Why Hillary Clinton needs Elizabeth Warren — and don’t run, Elizabeth! Escape or die: When a cargo ship was captured by Somali pirates, its crew faced one desperate choice after another. What can’t you say? Stephen Fry, Slavoj Zizek, Elif Shafak and more say the unsayable. This guy from Baltimore is raising a Christian army to fight ISIS — what could go wrong? Jenna Mclaughlin on the self-proclaimed freedom-fighter Matthew VanDyke. Fact, fiction, and social science replication: A recent scandal will lead to calls for greater transparency in political science data — but that’s been an ongoing trend. The atlas the ocean has been waiting: For all of our GPS units, online mapping services, satellites, and general mastery over terra firma, it is easy to forget that much of the surface of our small planet is as unexplored today as it was at the dawn of civilization. Can you just say it? Say that Google Plus is not dead, please. Don’t search for “purpose”: Jonathan Malesic on the big lie behind a Venn diagram meme. This girl dropped some feminist truth in her yearbook quote.
