Andrew Iliadis (Purdue): The Right to Nonparticipation for Global Digital Citizenship. Sara Lipton on the words that killed medieval Jews. Why can’t anyone agree on the definition of “domestic terrorism”? Americans attracted to ISIS find an “echo chamber” on social media. Should doctors operate on intersex babies? M.C. was born with ambiguous genitalia, a rare condition that doctors addressed with surgery; now, in a landmark lawsuit, M.C.’s parents are challenging the medical mainstream — why does a surgeon decide what sex a child should be? Paul Ryan’s beard triggers a style debate. Erik Malinowski on the funky little football phone that sold a million magazines: In the late ‘80s, a mid-level marketing guy at Sports Illustrated wondered, “Could you put a phone inside a football?”, and the answer was a resounding — and industry-changing — yes.
