Peter Kinderman (Liverpool): Knots and Black Holes: Why We're All Prone to Madness and What We Can Do About It. Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer on why some dictators are more likely to get nuclear weapons — 5 lessons from Iraq and Libya. In Iraq, Trump doesn't understand what he doesn't understand. Donald Trump appears to have no idea what Obamacare is. Obamacare is a policy triumph and a political failure. "The mandate penalties are not working": Sarah Kliff interviews Caroline Pearson on what is broken with Obamacare. To work as intended, Obamacare needs a bigger, more unpopular mandate. Are progressives being played by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange? Tom Hayden and the unfinished business of democracy. There's a word for buying books and not reading them. Meet Charles Harder, the Gawker killer now working for Melania Trump and Roger Ailes.
