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Karen Engle (Texas): Feminist Governance and International Law: From Liberal to Carceral Feminism Governance. The “voter fraud” myth is just embarrassing at this point — and Kris Kobach, its patron saint, is getting embarrassed in court. Galen Strawson on the consciousness deniers. Jennifer Ash on the power of black women’s political labor remembered. Nudging grows up (and now has a government job): Ten years after an influential book proposed ways to work with — not against — the irrationalities of human decision-making, practitioners have refined and broadened this gentle tool of persuasion. “Mallory is not gone”: Heather Havrilesky interviews Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans.

Eric Levitz on 5 lessons from the Pennsylvania special election. Republicans are reaping the whirlwind: They’ve synthesized the worst of Trump and the worst of the GOP establishment. Why Democrats should worry about Conor Lamb’s victory.