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Anca Gheaus (Sheffield): Could There Ever Be a Duty to Have Children? William Mazzarella (Chicago): Totalitarian Tears: Does the Crowd Really Mean It? From TNR, the filibuster does not protect minority interests and other reasons to reject supermajority requirements: Adrian Vermeule reviews Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule by Melissa Schwartzberg; and John Judis on how big monopolies are now free to ruin the Internet: The terrible consequences of a court's FCC ruling (and more). When youth ruled the earth: Many paleoanthropologists believe that for most of history it is young people who were in charge. The conspiracy spending bill: Alex Pareene on how Congress is broken in part because many of its members listen to, and believe, crazy people. “We’re all-in, and we’re happy we are”: Chief executives for some of the country's biggest insurers are upbeat about Obamacare's future, despite the health law's troubled rollout (and more). The Clintons keep a favor file of saints and sinners: An excerpt from HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes. From The North Star, Mark Fisher on exiting the Vampire Castle; and from the Vampire Castle to Duck Dynasty: Michael Rectenwald on the ideals of identity politics and how it functions. Each day 19,000 children die from preventable, poverty-related causes; for the vast majority of these children, their early death means that they will never have the chance to take up smoking.