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Benjamin Remy Chabot (FRB) and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke): Santa Anna and His Black Eagle: The Origins of Pari Passu? From the inaugural issue of Critical Studies in Men's Fashion, Sharon Peoples (ANU): Embodying the Military: Uniforms; Diane Maglio (Berkeley): Peacocks in the Sands: Flamboyant Men’s Beachwear 1920–30; Kevin Matthews and Joseph H. Hancock (Drexel) and Zhaohui Gu (Xi’an Polytechnic): Rebranding American Men’s Heritage Fashions through the Use of Visual Merchandising, Symbolic Props and Masculine Iconic Memes Historically Found in Popular Culture; and Andrew Reilly and Eirik J. Saethre (Hawaii): The Hankie Code Revisited: From Function to Fashion. David Picard on chasing one’s inner South Pole. “Are you ready to have your phone tapped by the CIA?”: Andrew O’Hagan on ghosting Julian Assange. Stay put, young man: Americans used to be exceptional for how often they moved — but that once-powerful source of both efficiency and upward mobility is now in steep decline. Betsy Mason on mapping America's restless interstate migration without a map. Greg Afinogenov on Russia under Putin: In Russia, the reality is that the organized far right is a sideshow to what is really going on. The first chapter from The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations by Michael L. Ross. God called them to adopt, and adopt, and adopt. Why did the Schaibles let their children die? It was God’s will. Jim Russell on how global Dublin is killing rural Ireland.