Wan-Chuan Kao (Washington and Lee) and Jen E. Boyle (Coastal Carolina): The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness. Tracy Reilly (Dayton): Copyright and the Tragedy of the Common. The disappeared: Spencer Ackerman on how Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden “black site”. Max Fisher asked Snowden if he deals with Russian officials — his answer was weird but revealing. The Merchants of Europe: Unfortunately, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice provides one of the best models for understanding the drama of the debt crisis in Greece today. Lisa Bonos on how to find a feminist boyfriend. Tracy Moore on all the men you'll meet on the way to that feminist boyfriend. We know how you feel: Raffi Khatchadourian on how computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait. Claire Cain Miller on how technology has made life different, but not necessarily more stressful. This university teaches you no skills — just a new way to think. The Vatican just called for reforming the biggest health care problem you’ve never heard of. Ron Kampeas on Israel and Zionism through the prisms of Rabin and Netanyahu. Manuel Pastor on how immigrant activists changed L.A. 50 years later, Americans give thumbs-up to immigration law that changed the nation. The introduction to The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment by Dallas G. Denery.
