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Pantomiming an edgy persona

Matt Sienkiewicz (BC) and Nick Marx (Colorado State): Click Culture: The Perils and Possibilities of Family Guy and Convergence-Era Television. C'Zar David Bernstein (Oxford), Timothy Hsiao (Florida State), and Matt Palumbo (TCNJ): The Moral Right to Keep and Bear Firearms. Russia and the U.S. need to get along — the world's safety depends on it. Why is Putin so popular? Despite economic woes, propaganda and patriotism have protected Russia's President — so far. How do Americans look in North Korean films? David Marchese interviews Paul Fischer, author of A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power. Matthew Wills on Cuban-American relations through the years. Cuba then next Cancun? It should be so lucky. Pakistan’s old curse: There is little doubt that the Peshawar massacre has galvanized Pakistani society; the question is whether it can become a real turning point for a society plagued by violent divisions, culture wars and the strategic prerogatives of a powerful military. A Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for Fethullah Gulen, an influential cleric and former ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania and whose followers have been accused of participating in a plot to overthrow the government. Teaching Ferguson, Teaching Capital: Curry Malott and Derek R. Ford on slavery and the “terrorist energy” of Capital. Peter Bloom on why the message of the Hunger Games films is dangerous. You can rest assured that Stephen Colbert will mug onward, in his most challenging role yet: a flat, predictable act, pantomiming an edgy persona in a near-complete broadcast vacuum.