Shopping Town USA

From Forbes, a series of articles on champions, including Tim Harford on rewarding mediocrity: Governments love to pick champions, so why are they so good at picking losers? More and more on The Logic of Life: Undercovering the New Economics of Everything. A review of The African American National Biography. From Mute, Shopping Town USA: Victor Gruen, the Cold War, and the shopping mall. The introduction to Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? by Robin Archer. The Lost Art of War: Hollywood’s anti-American war films don’t measure up to the glories of its patriotic era. From Geotimes, an article on oil around the world. Authoritative guide to global warming: Simon Singh reviews The Hot Topic by David King and Gabrielle Walker. From Peace, an interview with Colonel Robert Helvey on training pro-democracy movements. From Peacework, a review of Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography by Elin O'Hara. An article on the militarisation of space. From Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, an article on endowed newspapers: A solution to the industry’s problems? From Slate, three articles on Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! From Psychiatric Times, an article on sexual impulsivity disorders as psychiatric "orphans". From New Statesman, a special issue on God. More on Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah.