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Samir Okasha (Bristol): Kin Selection and Its Critics. American weapons sales to other countries rose to $36.2 billion last year, more than half of the global arms trade, a congressional study found. Why does Newsweek’s “Abortion Wars” cover show a cartoon fetus instead of a woman? From Buzzfeed, Daniel Wagner and Mike Baker on how Warren Buffett’s predatory lender charges minorities a lot more. Hussein Ibish on how Trump taps into the rage of anxious American men. Donald Trump isn’t the biggest narcissist in the GOP field — Ted Cruz is: “I know a televangelist candidate when I see one”. May 1968’s black sheep: Andre Glucksmann died last month — why did he and so many other French intellectuals turn to the right after May 1968? “I am a Rambo bitch”: Meet Christine Fair, the drone defender who hates neo-cons, attacks Glenn Greenwald — and may have conflicts of her own.