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Bittersweet concession

Mathilde Cohen (UConn): The Lactating Man. Betsy DeVos’s brother, the founder of Blackwater, is setting up a private army for China, sources say. Masha Gessen writes in praise of hypocrisy: The president makes a bittersweet concession to an American norm. Reality begins to set in on Obamacare — for both sides. Bullshitting jobs: Benjamin Noys reviews Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres by Jamie Woodcock. The downfall of YouTube’s biggest star is a symptom of a bigger illness: The schadenfreude over YouTube star Felix Kjellberg’s sudden fall from grace overlooks a much bigger, more insidious pattern of young men testing boundaries in the angriest corners of the Internet.