Laura E. Little (Temple): Legal Restriction and Protection of Humor. Carmen M. Cusack (Nova Southeastern): Does Size Matter in the Field? Female Police Bodies in Online Television. After years of warning that China was building backdoor threats into U.S. routers and Internet devices, it turns out that the U.S. government has been intercepting “routers, servers, and other computer network devices” in order to install surveillance tools targeting foreign customers. The Man Who Knows Too Much: While Glenn Greenwald has spent the past year publishing revelations from arguably the largest cache of breached secrets in American-intelligence history, he promises the biggest bombs are still to come. Joshua Rothman on the origins of “privilege”. Conservatives show, after weeks of blubbering over Brendan Eich and Donald Sterling, that they really, really are in favor of expansive Constitutional rights for people other than themselves and affiliated racists and gay-haters. People are turning Michelle Obama’s #BringBackOurGirls pic into an anti-drone campaign. The debate over voting rights is shifting dramatically — just ask Rand Paul. My gay shame: Hannah Black on how patriarchy stole sex. Simon Wren-Lewis on Pareto, inequality and government debt, or is economics inherently right wing? Welcome to Science of Us, a new NYMag.com site designed to stoke your fascination with human behavior. “All men are garbage but this kind especially”: Charlotte Shane on liberal dude erotica. Harvard’s Kennedy School adds Checking Your Privilege 101 to new-student orientation. The introduction to Byzantine Matters by Averil Cameron. Semen-like startup snack now selling for $115 a pouch.
