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What should scare you about Ebola

James G. Hodge (ASU): Global and Domestic Legal Preparedness and Response: 2014 Ebola Outbreak. G. Kevin Donovan (Georgetown): Ebola, Epidemics, and Ethics: What We Have Learned. Arden Rowell (Illinois): Regulating Fear: The Case of Ebola in the United States. Shana Gadarian and Bethany Albertson on how Ebola will make Americans more likely to give up civil liberties. Jonathan Cohn on what should scare you about Ebola. Learning from missteps in the Dallas cases of Ebola, health workers and officials took a different approach in the case of a doctor who fell ill in New York. Critics blast New York and New Jersey Ebola quarantines: A healthy nurse is stuck in quarantine — Christie and Cuomo face rapidly escalating criticism. Matthew Wills on the origin of quarantine: The Texas and New York City Ebola cases have put the concept of quarantine back into the American lexicon. Michelle Dean on the way we used to quarantine in New York. MSF recommends Ebola-treaters not return to work for 21 days to keep from freaking people out (and more). A possible vaccine for Ebola went untested on humans for years. John Herrman checks in with the Ebola day traders. From Vox, Julia Belluz on living through Ebola. Steven Johnson on Ebola’s information paradox. Ted Cruz’s deputy chief Nick Muzin blames Ebola infections on Obamacare. When “Washington is broken” isn't the story: If you're going to talk about what's happening in Congress, it makes more sense to say who's doing what, instead of talking about Congress as a place where things don't get “done”. Terrence McCoy on the major Liberian newspaper churning out Ebola conspiracy after conspiracy. Zeynep Tufekci on Ebola and the real reason everyone should panic: Our global institutions are broken.