The inaugural issue of Board Games Studies is out, including Cosimo Cardellicchio (Bari): Evolution for Games; Emanuel Gluskin (Kinneret): On Game Psychology: An Experiment on the Chess Board/Screen, Should You Always "Do Your Best"?; George I. Bell and John D. Beasley on new problems on old solitaire boards; and David Lawrence on a pictish origin for Hnefatafl. You don’t hate Monopoly, you just suck at it. What “mom” really means in America: Britt Peterson on how a distinctive word for motherhood came to carry so much freight. Watch colonialism collapse before your eyes in this mesmerizing GIF. David Haglund on why “think-piece” is a dirty word. Bush revisionism is back: Elias Isquith on why this latest, pathetic attempt is so dangerous (and more). Too big to jail? Tom Engelhardt on why kidnapping, torture, assassination, and perjury are no longer crimes in Washington. George F. Will and Charles Krauthammer discuss the U.S. National Climate Assessment, which they dismissed with various irritable mental gestures. This book is a movie: Douglas Campbell Rennie on the “faithful adaptation” as a benchmark for analyzing the substantial similarity of works in different media. What do stamps say about nations? Adrian Tahourdin investigates. Jonathan Cohn on more good news for Obamacare: It may be saving lives after all. What’s the liberal equivalent of climate denial? The paper chase: Online cryptocurrencies are all the rage, but other alternate money systems can do more than help you hide. When facts are weapons: Politicians have never had access to so much data — how come their debates are so sterile?
