Tahereh Alavi Hojjat (DeSales): The Economic Analysis of Obesity. Bernardo Bortolotti and Veljko Fotak (Bocconi): The Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Definition, Organization, and Governance. Cynthia Lee (GWU): (E)Racing Trayvon Martin. Martina Kitzmueller (New Mexico): Are You Recording This? Enforcement of Police Videotaping. An interview with Robbin Shipp and Nick Chiles, authors of Justice While Black: Helping African-American Families Navigate and Survive the Criminal Justice System. From LARB, David A. Bell on The New Republic. Beijing's move to bail out Russia, on top of its recent aid for Venezuela and Argentina, signals the death of the post-war Bretton Woods world. S.E. Smith on why we still don't have the technology to find missing airplanes. Is the most powerful conservative in America losing his edge? Erick Erickson built his career on stoking populist rage — but now the man who steers the Tea Party says conservative anger has grown toxic and self-defeating. Bernie Sanders for president? Why not try a real socialist for a change. A scandal’s long shadow: Football’s back, but the valley isn’t happy — Penn Staters still seethe over Paterno’s treatment. The 15 ailments of the Vatican Curia, according to Pope Francis. Have human rights treaties failed? Kenneth Roth and Eric Posner debate. What is Paul Krugman afraid of? Ezra Klein investigates. Laurie Penny on nerd entitlement: White male nerds need to recognise that other people had traumatic upbringings, too — and that's different from structural oppression. Denmark has presented a claim to the UN, arguing that the area surrounding the North Pole is connected to the continental shelf of Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory.
