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Staying put

Jennifer Jolly-Ryan (Northern Kentucky): Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls: The Intrepid, Pioneering, White Water Paddler’s Right to Stop on Private Land. Christopher Simon Wareham (Witwatersrand): What is the Ethics of Ageing? From Political Concepts, a special issue on Etienne Balibar. Bad news for President Trump: The Comey memos are more revealing than they seem. Parag Pathak wins John Bates Clark Medal. Swaziland gets a name change: Call it eSwatini now. William Jacoby used an academic journal to deny allegations of sexual harassment — now he’s resigned as its editor. The first chapter from A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction by Michael J. Ryan. The lost art of staying put: Lucy Ellmann on travel and its discontents.

Where countries are tinderboxes and Facebook is a match. Facebook has a genocide problem: A U.N. report on Myanmar's campaign against the Rohingya reveals the ways in which oppressive regimes can use social media for ill. Could Facebook be tried for human-rights abuses?