Luca Di Blasi (Bern): Less than Nihilism. Damian Cox (Bond): Reflections in a Mirror (“In this paper, I develop a solution to the puzzle of mirror perception: why do mirrors appear to reverse the image of an object along a left/right axis and not around other axes, such as the top/bottom axis?”) Isaac Kfir (Syracuse): Social Identity Group and Human (In)Security: The Case of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Opher Baron and Oded Berman (Toronto) and Arieh Gavious (Ben-Gurion): A Game between a Terrorist and a Passive Defender. Niccolo Leo Caldararo (SFSU): Al-Qeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and Forms of Rebellion in the 21st Century in the Vacuum of Ottoman Soviet “Collapse”. Why is the U.S. bombing ISIS and ISIS’s sworn enemy? Joshua Keating wonders. Are militants from China's Xinjiang region really being trained by the Islamic State? Nick Holdstock investigates. Ebola’s lost ward: A hospital in Sierra Leone has struggled to continue its research amid the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Is Ebola coming to America? Experts ponder as Ebola epidemic worsens in Africa. It turns out that all our worrying is for naught — the cure has been staring us right in the face all this time: Magic Water. Yes, Republicans really are unprecedented in their obstructionism. Paul Ryan's The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea is Mad Libs with a thesaurus full of conservative lies. The race to make Hillary Clinton more liberal is on. Rosie Gray on how the people who organized Occupy Wall Street are now suing each other: The movement descends into litigation. Rani Molla on a history of government employment. Ross Perlin on radical linguistics in an age of extinction.
