Peter John (UCL): Theories of Policy Change and Variation Reconsidered: A Prospectus for the Political Economy of Public Policy. From New Left Review, Perry Anderson on the House of Zion: The fate of the Palestinians and the fortunes of Israel, after fifty years of occupation, and American and European collusion with it. Emma Foehringer Merchant on how the Islamic Climate Change Declaration could be more effective than Pope Francis’s encyclical (and more). Ohio middle school allows students to opt out of lesson on Islam. A Muslim American veteran was widely smeared with a fabricated story about ISIS charges. World’s biggest drug kingpin El Chapo declares war on ISIS with chilling threat. The fall of King Coal: Tim Murphy on the epic tale of the rise and fall of America’s most notorious coal baron. How to tell good studies from bad? Bet on them.
From Vox, Dylan Matthews asked 5 fascism experts whether Donald Trump is a fascist — here’s what they said; and Trumpism is a natural consequence of the GOP refusing to moderate on taxes or immigration. Attacks on Trump just make these voters like him more (and more). The Republican race keeps getting weirder: Party leaders now threatening brokered convention to derail Trump. Chris Cillizza on the absolutely epic trolling letter Jeb Bush’s leadership PAC sent to Donald Trump’s lawyer. Francis Fukuyama on how Donald Trump makes George W. Bush look like a paragon of statesmanship.
