From Dissent, do juries matter? A symposium on the uses and abuses of the jury system. From Harper's, an interview with John Brabender on how the GOP will run against Obama. From The Weekly Standard, the inconvenient truths of 2008: Four things the party loyalists won't want to hear. From Jewcy, an interview with the only rapping Jewish faith healer in the presidential race. From YaleGlobal, an articled on why developing countries are worse off than once thought (and part 2). Thomas Palley on breaking the neoclassical monopoly in economics. Brad DeLong is in Marx’s shadow again. From TNR, more on The Discovery of France by Graham Robb. From The Root, an article on surviving on a blackness-only diet. From Good, an article on why we should stop teaching handwriting. A review of Poe: A Life Cut Short

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