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The power of feedback

Michael Abramowicz (GWU): Train Wrecks, Budget Deficits, and the Entitlements Explosion: Exploring the Implications of the Fourteenth Amendment's Public Debt Clause (and more from TPM). From n+1, Elizabeth Gumport is against reviews. What Bin Laden Won: The final price tag for American military involvement in the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan will cost taxpayers up to $4.4 trillion, according to a new study. A review of Star Wars vs. Star Trek: Could the Empire Kick the Federation's Ass? And Other Galaxy-Shaking Enigmas by Matt Forbeck. Paul Krugman on the inspiration for a liberal economist. Bradley Manning’s Army of One: Steve Fishman on how a lonely, five-foot-two, gender-questioning soldier became a WikiLeaks hero, a traitor to the U.S., and one of the most unusual revolutionaries in American history. From Wired, Thomas Goetz on harnessing the power of feedback loops. The insidious evils of "Like" Culture: In our age of online view counts and retweets, conformity is becoming the rule. Should therapists help God-fearing gay people stay in the closet?