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Of shrinking ambition

A new issue of The Activist is out. Joshua Benjamin Miller (Bocconi) and Adam Sanjurjo (Alicante): A Cold Shower for the Hot Hand Fallacy. Venkat Pulla (Sunshine Coast) and Kanchan Prasad Kharel (Kathmandu): The Carpets and Karma: The Resilient Story of the Tibetan Community in Two Settlements in India and Nepal. Diane L. Fahey (NYLS): The Movement to Destroy the Income Tax and the IRS: Who Is Doing It and How They Are Succeeding. From the latest issue of The Atlantic Monthly, a series of articles on creativity. Rebecca Traister on why a woman should run for president against Hillary Clinton — or many women. Tim Murphy on the definitive guide to every Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory (so far). From Pussy Riot to Snowden: Molly Crabapple on the dissident fetish. Disruptive genius: Craig Lambert interviews innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car. Andrew Beaujon on why journalists drive scientists crazy, in graphs. Brick by brick: After years of shrinking ambition at The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos has the paper thinking global domination. “Most bootyful butts, best bulges!”: Amanda Hess on why it’s great to objectify World Cup players. Pollution porn for dudes with pickup trucks: Diesel drivers in rural America have been modifying their trucks to spew out black soot, then posting pics to the Internet — they hate you and your Prius. “If 10,000 ‘sons of the desert’ here in the stadium want to trigger a scandal because of this, it just goes to show that they have too few schools”.