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The only thing standing

Bent Flyvbjerg (Oxford) and Cass Sunstein (Harvard): The Principle of the Malevolent Hiding Hand; or, the Planning Fallacy Writ Large. The many resurrections of Sherlock Holmes: Amy Sturgis on why the Great Detective is always in fashion. Michael Tomasky reviews Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! by Donald J. Trump. Ben Carson appears to mean what he says, and there is a consistent market for his brand of exonerating racism. Why I still think Fiorina was a terrible CEO: She can diss Jeffrey Sonnenfeld all she wants on live TV, but personal attacks won’t take her from colossal business failure to leader of the free world (and more). Steven Rattner on how Carly Fiorina really was that bad (and more and more and more). John Boehner may have been the only thing standing between America and madness (and more and more). Kashmir Hill created a fake business and bought it an amazing online reputation. Sasha Abramsky on how the atheist son of a Jewish rabbi created one of the greatest libraries of socialist literature.