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Bid to needle

Farah Godrej (UC-Riverside): The Neoliberal Yogi and the Politics of Yoga. Theodore Bach (BGSU): Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically). Gisele Bundchen: “Saving the Brazilian rain forest is everyone’s duty”. Fox News is top audience draw, while ESPN has higher ad sales: In the TV business, age and experience are no match for youth and vigor. Derek Thompson on the twilight of Fox News: As pay TV slowly declines, cable news faces a demographic cliff — and nobody has further to fall than the merchant of right-wing outrage. She famously said that women can’t have it all — now she realizes that no one can. Douglas Brinkley on Obama the monument maker. A planet orbiting our nearest star used to be science fiction — now it’s science. Hillary Clinton piles up research in bid to needle Donald Trump at first debate.