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Taken steps

Rupert Read (East Anglia): An Empirical Refutation of Pareto Optimality? A country breaking down: Elizabeth Drew reviews 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers; Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman; Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead by Rosabeth Moss Kante; The Road Taken: The History and Future of America’s Infrastructure by Henry Petroski; and Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by Ted Koppel. The end of democracy in America: Myron Magnet on how Tocqueville foresaw how it would come. The Democrats have taken steps to reduce the influence in 2020 of the so-called superdelegates — unfortunately, they’re doing it wrong. There are more transgender delegates at the 2016 DNC than black delegates at the RNC.