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Paul L. Posner, Timothy Conlan, and Priscilla M. Regan (George Mason): The Politics of Accountability: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ARRA. From the latest issue of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination, Henry A Giroux (McMaster Center): The Occupy Movement Meets the Suicidal State: Neoliberalism and the Punishing of Dissent; and Carlos Frade (Salford): An Altogether New Prince Five Hundred Years Later: Bringing Machiavelli to Bear on Our Present. The Day the Earth Ran Out: Carter Roberts on the causes and consequences of Earth Overshoot Day. John Edwards on challenges of the social life of language. Controlling sound: Melissa Kagen on musical torture from the Shoah to Guantanamo. Jeffrey Lord on the Cumulus war on conservatives: From Buckley to Sean Hannity, attacks that cannot help but backfire. Christian Stork on why Obama can’t withhold military aid from Egypt. The SEC is now demanding that companies admit wrongdoing — that’s a big deal. From Out, Maral Noshad Sharifi on the men who want AIDS and how it improved their lives. Snowden Wars Episode V: The Surveillance State Strikes Back. Andrew Ross Sorkin is such a Wall Street bootlicker sometimes. Troll-hunting mom Kaitlin Jackson falls prey to 4chan trolls. DHS gets new cybersecurity chief. Which economist do you agree with most? Take this quiz to find out.