Jesse Minor and Geoffrey A. Boyce (Arizona): Smokey Bear and the Pyropolitics of United States Forest Governance. Why are we in Niger? It has become safer to assume that the American military has a presence in a given country in Africa than not. The American far Right asks: What Rohingya ethnic cleansing? Trump’s blank check for Saudi Arabia: As the kingdom makes mass arrests at home and tensions spike in the region, the United States looks on. Claire Potter reviews No is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein. Top media watchdog accused of playing dirty to help Trump's friend. In a radical departure, Trump health officials want to define life as starting at “conception”. The wizards of Armageddon set up shop in Silicon Valley.
“What about Bill?” Sexual misconduct debate revives questions about Clinton. With Franken, the reckoning over sexual misconduct comes to the Democrats. Poll: Democrats say sexual harassment is a problem — Republicans are less sure. The Republicans already are the party of Roy Moore — with or without him. #MeToo: Molly Oberman on thinking beyond legitimation through social media.
