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Hazel V. J. Moir (ANU): Trade Treaties: Undemocratic, Anti-Competitive and Unbalanced? Thanassis Cambanis on Putin’s crushing strategy for Syria: Russia has long held a Machiavellian approach to defeating insurgents, and Syria is no different. Jonathan Chait on how fighting terrorism was the biggest weakness of the Bush administration. The secret startup that saved the worst website in America: Robinson Meyer on how a team of young people, living in a repurposed McMansion in Maryland, helped rebuild Healthcare.gov. Scandal showed a realistic abortion on television — that’s a first. Who’s afraid of Yale student privilege? Phoebe Maltz Bovy on how the Right has adopted the Left’s language of privilege. We have the Woodrow Wilson/P.C. debate all backwards: Corey Robin on how protesters are forcing a debate Princeton has whitewashed for decades. Seriously, here’s one amazing math trick to learn what can’t be known. Should museums offer free admission to everyone?