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A few lessons

Michael A. Olivas (Houston): 58,000 Minutes: An Essay on Law Majors and Emerging Proposals for the Third Year of Law Study. From Next New Deal, what kind of problem is the ACA rollout for liberalism? Mike Konczal investigates. The Democratic Obamacare freak-out begins. From TNR, Jonathan Cohn on on a chart that will help dispel your Obamacare hysteria and on debunking the new Obamacare conspiracy theory; and the New Deal's debut wasn't smooth sailing, either — but historian Michael Hiltzik says Obama could've learned a few lessons from FDR. Corey Robin on the moderate and the McCarthyite. Actor-slash-comedian-slash-Messiah Russell Brand, in his capacity as guest editor of the New Statesman's just-published revolution-themed issue, was invited to explain to Jeremy Paxman why anyone should listen to a man who has never voted in his life. Joe Coscarelli interviews George Rush and Joanna Molloy, author of Scandal: A Manual. David Cay Johnston on Glenn Greenwald and the future of leaks. Natasha Vargas-Cooper on how Glenn Greenwald is taking on the world, and why he'll never stop. Gillian Tett interviews Jared Diamond on criticism, gall bladders and what the west can learn from other societies. Candida Moss reviews From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper. The federal government is going into uncharted waters, deep-sixing the giant paper nautical charts that it has been printing for mariners for more than 150 years.