Samuel Merrill (Wilkes), Bernard Grofman (UC - Irvine) and Thomas Brunell (UT - Dallas): Cycles in American National Electoral Politics, 1854–2006: Statistical Evidence and an Explanatory Model. Here's what former presidential candidates would be talking about if they were still running. Does politics begin at 50? A note of Plato’s belief that leadership and learning are not solely for the young. Why did it take so long for a far-fetched Holocaust memoir to be debunked? What it means to be an Anglican is much more than a matter of geography. The appointment of Fidel's brother as Cuba's president may actually bode well for reform on the island. For Uganda, it's not the familiar unease about ageing baby boomers, but the opposite. From NYRB, a review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton; William Luers, Thomas R. Pickering, and Jim Walsh on a solution for the US–Iran nuclear standoff; Michael Tomasky on a possibly Super problem; Benjamin Friedman reviews The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan; a review of His Illegal Self by Peter Carey (and more from The New Yorker); and a review of The Reserve by Russell Banks. From Mother Jones, a special section on Torture at Home: When the unthinkable becomes acceptable. A review of Jennifer 8. Lee's The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food (and more from Bookforum).