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Kimberly Gross and Ethan Porter (George Washington) and Thomas Wood (OSU): Presidential Debates in the Age of Partisan Media: A Field Experiment. Russia "trying to oust Angela Merkel by inciting unrest against refugees in Germany". Tillerson plans to skip NATO meeting, visit Russia in April (and more and more and more and more on "Trump's Diplomat"). Tillerson refuses to rule out nuclearization of Asian allies. "Untalented" crime writers respond to their No 1 critic: 13 thriller writers take William O'Rourke to task for dismissing them and their readers. For more than two decades, Rebecca Solnit has been a favorite of the literati: Penning exquisite essays that move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy — then came "mansplaining".

Neil Gorsuch is not Another Scalia — he's the next John Roberts: Gorsuch puts a handsome face on an ugly ideology. Sorry Neil Gorsuch: American judges are just as partisan as everyone else. Gerald Dworkin reviews The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia by Neil M. Gorsuch.