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Terry L. Turnipseed (Syracuse): The President and the Autopen: It is Unconstitutional for Someone or Something to Sign a Bill Outside of the President's Presence. Pret a mourir: If you want to see a horrific application of all the principles of immaterial and affective labor, Virnoesque virtuosity, lateral surveillance, obligatory reflexivity, emotional management, gamification and so on, you need look no further. Gwen Sharp on the mental burden of a lower-class background. As progress on equality for gay men and lesbians ripples through the country, one group has been prominently left behind: transgender people. Repressing the Internet, Western-Style: As politicians call for more online controls after London and Norway, authoritarian states are watching. The new "Let them eat cake!": David Sirota on 10 shocking, illuminating moments that prove just how out of touch the powerful really are. When that becomes this: David Micah Greenberg on comparison in politics and poetry. Why did Japan surrender? Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima — now, some historians say that’s not what ended the war. A review of Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman. The elusive craft of evaluating advocacy: Steven Teles and Mark Schmitt describe the challenges of evaluating advocacy organizations and outline possible approaches that donors might use. The Paleo Diet: Meat, veggies, and nuts might be the foods humans evolved to eat — or they may just be Atkins in disguise. If Rick Perry is seriously a presidential front-runner there's something wrong with all of us. Witness to intellectual suicide: A bitter farewell to Cioran on his 100th birthday — Fritz Raddatz on the Romanian philosopher's newly published essays from the 1930s.