Stavros Gadinis (UC-Berkeley): Three Pathways to Global Standards: Private, Regulator, and Ministry Networks. Cass Sunstein (Harvard): Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Knowledge Problem. Andrew M. Francis and Hugo M. Mialon (Emory): “A Diamond is Forever” and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration. Rebecca Onion on how advice columns from decades past provide a chilling glimpse into the horrors of marriage counselling before feminism. Braving Ebola: The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates. Ebola and ISIS are making American voters go crazy — here's how irrational fears shape elections. Matthew Yglesias on why more partisanship can cure what ails American politics. Did Obama lose America, or did Democrats lose Obama? Ezra Klein on the Democratic Party's Obama problem. Eli Zaretsky on why Obama is responsible for the debacle of his presidency. Steven Pearlstein on why Democrats only have themselves to blame for upcoming losses. The Supreme Court will be a disaster if a Justice dies during a Republican Congress. Where the Tea Party rules: Lima, Ohio, has been struggling for decades — and the GOP’s radical policies are making it even worse. Chris Lehmann on why Washington needs more class traitors like Ben Bradlee. Should political science research influence politics? Dean Baker on defending economics from Robert Samuelson. Lydia DePillis on how chief economists are the new marketers. The first chapter from Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries by Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima and Paul Warde.
