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Understanding of the ways

Filippo Del Lucchese (Brunel): Spinoza and Constituent Power. Phil Hubbard (Kent), Teela Sanders (Leicester), and Jane Scoular (Strathclyde): Prostitution Policy, Morality and the Precautionary Principle. George Dvorsky on what that “strong signal” from a nearby sunlike star really means. Hillary Clinton is America’s Machiavelli and Donald Trump is a fanatic prophet, the chief doomsayer of the Renaissance Girolamo Savonarola. Jane Meyer on Roger Ailes, the Clintons, and the scandals of the scandalmongers. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on how insulting Colin Kaepernick says more about our patriotism than his. When billionaires rule: The demise of Gawker shows that the greatest impediment to media democracy isn’t the state — it’s the rich and powerful. Have we been misreading a crucial Maya codex for centuries? A new look at the Dresden Codex may change our understanding of the ways the Maya used the night sky to plan their ceremonial calendars.