The latest issue of Perspectives on Politics is free online this month, and it includes a symposium on “Pluralism and the Fate of Perestroika”, with a lead essay by John Gunnell, and responses by James Farr, Robert Keohane, David Laitin, Kristen Renwick Monroe, Anne Norton, and Sanford Schram. Neil Irwin on how to make sense of China’s plummeting stock market. Eduardo Porter on how Germans forget postwar history lesson on debt relief in Greece crisis. Austerity has failed: An open letter from Thomas Piketty, Jeffrey Sachs, Heiner Flassbeck, Dani Rodrik and Simon Wren-Lewis to Angela Merkel. Simon Wren-Lewis on why Germany wants rid of Greece. From Aeschylus to the EU: What is Europe’s greater contribution to humanity at large, Greek theater or double-entry bookkeeping? The Puerto Rico crisis, explained in fewer than 500 words. Confessions of a Clinton reporter: Jonathan Allen on the media's 5 unspoken rules for covering Hillary. Sally Kohn on what Donald Trump doesn’t understand about immigrants and crime. Claire Cain Miller on the search for the best estimate of the transgender population. Remnant of Boston’s brutal winter threatens to outlast summer. Saying goodbye to GDP: Kevin Hartnett reviews The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World by Dirk Philipsen (and more and more). The introduction to The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History, ed. Alice Crawford.
