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Clint Burnham (Simon Fraser): Does the Internet have an Unconscious? The coal miner’s daughter preference: William E. Thro reviews Place not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin. Democrats and Republicans have mirror image race problems. Tom Jacobs on the murky ethics of driverless cars: A new study explores a moral dilemma facing the creators of self-driving vehicles — in an accident, whose lives should they prioritize? Edward Humes on the absurd primacy of the automobile in American life. The rise of Weird Facebook: Hudson Hongo on how the world’s biggest social network became cool again (and why it matters). Patricia Hernandez on growing up on the seedy underbelly of the Internet. Can India and China dominate higher education in the 21st century? Mark Peters on the surprising history of indefinite hyperbolic numerals.

Donald Trump’s incredible new defense of his Russia-spying-on-Hillary comments: Just kidding. Joshua Yaffa on what the Kremlin makes of Donald Trump. Donald Trump isn’t a Manchurian candidate — Trump and Putin are using each other. Dana Houle on why the Bush family should endorse Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump’s Russian flirtations are a rebuke of the family patriarch's greatest foreign policy legacy. What Clinton and Trump will and won’t get from classified briefings.