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Foreign policy, health care and gender and sex

John Linarelli (La Verne): When Does Might Make Right? Using Force for Regime Change. Benjamin Fordham (Binghamton): (1) Power or Plenty? Economic and Security Concerns in U.S. Intervention Decisions; (2) The Evolution of Republican and Democratic Positions on Cold War Military Spending: A Historical Puzzle; and (3) What Makes a Major Power? From Foreign Affairs, Rudy Giuliani on A Realistic Peace. What Would Gates Think? Former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen speculates on what is going inside the head of his successor. A review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (and more and more). Here are ten life lessons the Army has taught an anonymous blogger. Soldier-reporters rewrite the rules: The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you want to scare the mightiest military in the world, try wielding both at the same time.

From New York, why New Yorkers last longer: This city, once known as a capital of vice and self-destruction, is now a capital of longevity. What happened? More than a prayer for single payer: An interview with Steffie Woolhandler, co-author of Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Health Care. John Allen Paulos on Sicko, health care and SCHIP: Who's counting? An understanding of how France came to its healthcare system would be instructive in any renewed debate in the United States. Suffering Differently: We assume that trauma victims everywhere are likely to experience PTSD. But what if we’re wrong?

From The Nation, The Diana/Whore Complex: The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged. The Myth, the Math, the Sex: Why it’s not possible for men to play around more than women. Actually, a cigar is never just a cigar: A review of A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna by Paul Rutherford. No other socio-demographic group is subject to such ridicule, contempt or sarcastic admonishment than middle-aged men. Here's a handy guide on how to negotiate this existential thicket. The Male Scale: An article on 10 archetypes of manhood. A 33-year-old unmarried rabbi living in Israel, in the time that he was living and having a favourite friend among the apostles called John, was quite clearly a gay man. From American Sexuality, an article on the Biology of Sexual Orientation: Insight from animal research about what turns us on.