James Jones (Rutgers): Racing through the Halls of Congress: The “Black Nod” as an Adaptive Strategy for Surviving in a Raced Institution. Have academics finally found the perfect meme? Conspiracy theorists are using YouTube to deny the YouTube shooting ever happened. Adrian Chen on Nasim Aghdam, the YouTube shooting, and the anxiety of demonetization. Thanassis Cambanis on the logic of Assad’s brutality. Another strike on Syria could be coming: Trump calls out Putin for Syrian chemical-weapons attack. The Kevin Williamson saga is raising a question anti-abortion folk would just as soon keep quiet. The post-World War II order is under assault from the powers that built it. Employees at U.S. government-backed independent media agency Broadcasting Board of Governors fear a pro-Trump “coup”.
