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Tear it all down

From Signs, Janet Halley (Harvard): The Move to Affirmative Consent. Antonio Regalado on how we have the technology to destroy all Zika mosquitoes. India’s telecom authorities have ruled against Facebook’s controversial free Internet plan. More than a river separates Bernie Sanders’s Vermont from New Hampshire. Ta-Nehisi Coates on the enduring solidarity of whiteness. Bernie’s way: The Vermont senator doesn’t want to bring Republicans and Democrats together— he means to tear it all down. You agree with Bernie Sanders (but you might not know it). Just how cozy is Hillary Clinton with Wall Street? Hillary Clinton is still a revolutionary candidate, even if her surrogates keep screwing up her message. The first chapter from Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry by Benjamin J. Cohen. From Sophocles to Sherlock: Frank Edmund Smith on economics, literature and the detective story.