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Keeping an eye

Neuvic Kalmar Malembanie (Howard): Black Identity, Past, Present and Future. Cristina Mislan (Penn State): From Latin America to Africa: Defining the "World Revolution" in The Black Panther; and An "Obedient Servant": Internationalizing and Capitalizing on Blackness in Marcus Garvey's Negro World. Dan Markel (FSU), Michael McCann (New Hampshire), and Howard M. Wasserman (FIU): Catalyzing Fans (“This paper proposes the development of Fan Action Committees (“FACs”), which, like their political counterpart (PACs), could mobilize and empower fans to play a larger role in the decision-making associated with which ‘production teams’ the talent will work”). From The New Yorker, Evan Osnos on the Biden agenda: Reckoning with Ukraine and Iraq, and keeping an eye on 2016; and Malcolm Gladwell on Kim Philby and the hazards of mistrust. Hayes Brown on 5 ways to punish Russia if it played a role in the Malaysian plane crash. From TNR, Ben Birnbaum and Amir Tibon on the explosive, inside story of how John Kerry built an Israel-Palestine peace plan — and watched it crumble; and Yishai Schwartz on why Israel's deadly invasion of Gaza is morally justified. Can a person be ignorant and intelligent at the same time? Edo Shonin and William Van Gordon wonder. Why the Middle Ages are still with us: Nicholas Vincent reviews The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages by Ian Wood. Leon Neyfakh on what playfulness can do for you: Research discovers the many benefits of being a goofball. Rebecca Rojer on the world according to Modern Monetary Theory. John Sides interviews Peter Schuck, author of Why Government Fails So Often, and How It Can Do Better.