The war on terror, climate change and social policy

From Newsweek, a special report on the Ongoing Hunt for Osama bin Laden. A review of Globalisation, democracy and terrorism by Eric Hobsbawm. The Unintended Consequences of Promoting Democracy: A review of Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy by Amitai Etzioni. An interview with Dennis Ross, author of Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World. 

Cass Sunstein (Chicago): The Complex Climate Change Incentives of China and the United States; and Climate Change Justice. Climate change and the threat to Pacific island nations: An interview with Espen Ronneberg of the Secretariat of the Pacific Program on the Environment. An excerpt from The Middle Path: Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe by Eric Lambin. Is everything we're told about saving the planet wrong? Bradford Plumer wants to know.

From Mother Jones, the idea that punishment can be therapeutic is not unique to the Rotenberg Center. In fact, this notion is widespread among the hundreds of "emotional growth boarding schools," wilderness camps, and "tough love" antidrug programs that make up the billion-dollar teen residential treatment industry. An excerpt from Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration by Devah Pager. The Lost War: We've spent 36 years and billions of dollars fighting it, but the drug trade keeps growing.