Stephanie Nawyn (MSU) and Linda Gjokaj (Oakland): The Magnifying Effect of Privilege: Earnings Inequalities at the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Nativity. Tim Crane (Cambridge): Understanding the Question: Philosophy and its History. Peter C Myers (Wisconsin): The Origins of Color-Blindness: Lessons from the Political Thought of Albion Tourgee. Jena McGill (Ottawa): Survival Sex in Peacekeeping Economies: Re-Reading the Zero Tolerance Approach to Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse in United Nations Peace Support Operations. Is your body mostly microbes? Actually, we have no idea — Peter Andrey Smith on how one eccentric scientist’s estimate became the most famous “fact” about the microbiome. From Nautilus, a special issue on Nothingness: Peering into the void. What we’re afraid to say about Ebola: We have to prepare for the chance that the virus becomes airborne. Arguably the most significant consequence of a Republican Senate takeover in 2014 is absent from the campaign trail, and hardly registers in any polls asking Americans what their top election issues are. Hayes Brown on 5 questions about the war against ISIS that no one should be embarrassed to ask. Zack Beauchamp on 3 numbers that explain why ISIS will be so hard to destroy. Juan Cole on the top 5 contradictions in Obama's emerging ISIL strategy. Paying the pro-war pundits: Talking heads like former General Jack Keane are all over the news media fanning fears of ISIS — shouldn’t the public know about their links to Pentagon contractors? The amazing pre-Civil War history of public transit integration in the North: An excerpt from Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy by Kyle G. Volk.
