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Two big things happening

From FP, follow adoption through several continents and countless families and lives in this accompanying online photo essay. A review of books on EU-rope’s constitutionalization. Doing democracy right: Why are other countries so much better at conducting elections than we are? A review of The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book by Michael Ratner. From IRB, a review of You are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet by Thomas M. Kostigen; and a review of The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution by Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner. From Adbusters, an essay on industrial childbirth: “Revisiting my son’s birth has made me angry”. Why do we tax corporations? Wouldn't it be easier just to tax individuals? A review of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin. From Dissent, Harold Meyerson on Labor and Armageddon. From ResetDOC, an interview with John Judis on Barack Obama, a new Roosevelt. Jason Zengerle on how David Axelrod learned to conquer race. John Nichols on why "socialist" is not an epithet. Daniel Kahneman on two big things happening in psychology today. From TNR, a review of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland.