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It could happen again

Jose Angel Garcia Landa (Zaragoza) and Ludmila Tataru (Saratov State): The Evolution of Narratology. The latest issue of Google’s Think Quarterly is devoted to the idea of openness, and what it means to the internet, to consumers, to marketers and to your business. How should you investigate a death? Sarah Childress finds out. When bacteria can no longer be stopped: How we can avoid a future in which antibiotics are no longer useful? Jonathan Cohn on five rules for talking about Obamacare in 2014. Are the U.S. media as transparent as the U.S. government? Monica Miller on how secular patriots want to be honest when they recite the Pledge of Allegiance (and more). From Conversations with History, an interview with Richard Rosecrance on the resurgence of the West. Are men better wired to read maps or is it a tired cliche? Tom Stafford finds out. Neil H. Buchanan on how the next debt ceiling crisis can be prevented if Democrats learn from filibuster reform. Ballet, what is the pointe? Josephine Urquhart looks at the ways in which sociality can be seen as an intrinsic part of ballet. Hana's Story: Kathryn Joyce on an Ethiopian adoptee's tragic fate, and how it could happen again. Ian Reifowitz on a Democratic Contract with America: How to retake the House and combat economic inequality. Among Cuban exiles, the old toast “Next year in Cuba” goes silent. David Allen on a world made safe for capitalism: Is Perry Anderson’s revisionist history of the Cold War credible?