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The inaugural issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity is out. Elissa Philip Gentry and W. Kip Viscusi (Vanderbilt): The Fatality and Morbidity Components of the Value of Statistical Life. Herlander Alves Elias (Beira Interior): An Ecology of Brands, Art and Control: The New Age of Homo Cypiens. Arne Dietrich (AUB): The Mythconception of the Mad Genius. Clive Thompson on how genius is more common than you think. Republicans are responsible for Netanyahu now — Speaker Boehner, care to comment on his race-baiting? Democracy Alliance, an influential coalition of the biggest liberal donors, is quietly distancing itself from the national Democratic Party and planning to push its leaders — including Hillary Clinton — to the left. Justin Davidson on the rise of the mile-high building. The economy, like arithmetic, is not complicated; even if Robert Samuelson does not understand it. Climate denial is immoral, says Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of US Episcopal Church (and more). Ted Cruz compares climate change activists to “flat-Earthers” — where to begin? Ted Cruz is signing up for Obamacare — that's not hypocritical, but it is heartless. “People and their problems are a renewable resource:” Dan Savage and Dear Prudence on advice giving and sex. Ivan Crozier reviews The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge by Donna J. Drucker and How Sexual Desire Works: The Enigmatic Urge by Frederick Toates. How did sex become so boring? Once a political act, it's now all about self-discovery.