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A new wild card

James Kraska (Virginia): Putting Your Head in the Tiger’s Mouth: Submarine Espionage in the Territorial Sea. Jennifer Taub (Vermont): Is Hobby Lobby a Tool for Limiting Corporate Constitutional Rights? From Boston Review, a forum on effective altruism, including a lead essay by Peter Singer and responses by Daron Acemoglu, Larissa MacFarquhar, Leila Janah, Iason Gabriel, and more. Paul Mason on Yanis Varoufakis, the economist who wouldn’t play politics. Lorcan Roche Kelly on what you need to know about the one thing that’s keeping Greek banks alive. Paul Krugman on ending Greece’s bleeding. Cinzia Arruzza on the Greek referendum: A new Battle of Marathon. Slavoj Zizek on why this is a chance for Europe to awaken: The Greeks are correct — Brussels’ denial that this is an ideological question is ideology at its purest and symptomatic of our whole political process. Methodologically, they might as well be drawing straws: Steven Yaccino on how the Republican debate selection process is a new wild card in presidential politics. The I.R.S. is expected to stand aside as nonprofits increase role in 2016 race. Enter the video cover letter, the latest indignity dreamed up by the sadists in HR. In praise of meaningless work: Joe Keohane reviews The Business Romantic: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself by Tim Leberecht and Mindful Work: How Meditation is Changing Business from the Inside Out by David Gelles.