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From the forthcoming The European Crisis and the Transformation of Transnational Governance: Authoritarian Managerialism versus Democratic Governance, ed. Christian Joerges and Carola Glinski, Ming-Sung Kuo (Warwick): The Moment of Schmittian Truth: Conceiving of the State of Exception in the Wake of the Financial Crisis. From The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald on how covert agents infiltrate the Internet to manipulate, deceive, and destroy reputations. German burnout: Anna Katharina Schaffner on nineteenth-century exhaustion, twenty-first-century disengagement and other German theories of tired minds. From The Baffler, Alex Pareene practices journalism on the New York Times’ DealBook. Christina Ortiz on 5 ways drones could come to your rescue. Daniel A. D’Aniello, the co-founder and chairman of the Washington-based private equity giant Carlyle Group, is contributing $20 million to the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute. “This is a war on gay people”: Ugandan newspaper publishes identities of "200 Top Homos". From Full Stop, an interview with Astra Taylor, author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Ukraine crisis: Interim President Olexander Turchynov warns of “separatism” risk. Felix Salmon on why it’s time for Bill Gross to retire. Is it mean to debunk lies about Obamacare? Finding a person made worse off by a huge, complex social-policy reform still in its first months in a gigantic country ought to be simple, yet the Republican Party has continuously failed to achieve even in the modest task which was its charge.