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The quiet clash

The inaugural issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly is out, including an introduction, and a review essay on the flourishing of transgender studies by Regina Kunzel. Zack Ford on the quiet clash between transgender women and drag queens. Tiffany Xie on how mass shooters have a gender and a race. Dear reform conservatives, you're doing it wrong: Veteran of the New Democrat movement Ed Kilgore shares some advice. Black voters saved Thad Cochran and the GOP establishment — here's what Republicans owe them in return. Tyler Cowen interviews Ralph Nader, author of Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. How has Hillary Clinton been suddenly transformed into Marie Antoinette? Triumph the Insult Comic Dog watches the World Cup. The pointlessly precious politics of twee: Judy Berman reviews Twee: The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film by Marc Spitz. Do PR people deserve our sympathy? Hamilton Nolan wonders. From TNR, Alec MacGillis on the unelectable whiteness of Scott Walker: A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican star. Fantastically wrong: Matt Simon on the murderous plant that grows from the blood of hanged men. Deep control, death and co: John Martin Fischer interviewed by Richard Marshall. Researchers at risk in Central Asia: PhD student in political science Alexander Sodiqov has been detained in Tajikistan; his adviser explains why and what should be done to secure his release.