William Mazzarella (Chicago): Totalitarian Tears: Does the Crowd Really Mean It? James Carney, Robin Dunbar, Anna Machin, Tamas David-Barrett, and Mauro Silva Junior (Oxford): Social Psychology and the Comic-Book Superhero: A Darwinian Approach. James Mark Mayer (Indiana) and Tae Hyun Baek (Kentucky): The Efficacy of Sexualized Female Models in Young Adult-Male Oriented Cigarette Advertising. Every which way but regulated: Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones on the “free market” trucking industry. Catherine Rampell on the familiar cycle of the taxi industry wars. Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert on socializing Uber: It’s easier than you think. Is the New Republic a public trust or a business? John Judis on how Chris Hughes turned a 100-year-old publication into a “product”. Jessica Luther on the wrestler and the rape victim: After being raped at a college party, Molly Morris had to endure our broken system for addressing campus sexual assault. Ann Friedman on 2014, the year everyone (finally) started talking about sexual assault. Questlove asked artists to get political — D'Angelo just responded. The Masters of the Universe, it turns out, are a bunch of whiners — but they’re whiners with war chests, and now they’ve bought themselves a Congress. Jonathan Chait on Dick Cheney’s 6-step torture denial. The idea that rapport-building is more effective than torture isn't a new one, but CIA and Bush administration leaders still wanted to torture suspects because they preferred torturing them — the idea of torturing "America's enemies" was pleasing to them. Erik Voeten on how the Lima Accord may nudge countries to do better on climate change — but won’t solve the problem (and more).
