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Duties in the future

From Slate, poor little CEOs: The government's giving them everything they want, yet still they whine; and too big to fail, the 1912 version: How Wilson and Roosevelt tried to roll back the power of corporations. The shame of right-wing "journalism": Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson distort facts to smear liberals, and it works — what liberals should learn. From Vice, an interview with Justine Kurland, known for her idyllic portraits of girl runaways, commune hippies, and mothers with their children. Lifestyles of Mad Men: An acclaimed dramatic series about the world of advertising returns to TV; Scott McLemee glances at the historical context. A real Mad Man: An interview with Jerry Della Femina on his career, casual sexism and how advertising has changed. From TED, Julian Assange on why the world needs WikiLeaks. An interview with Serene Jones on Glenn Beck's attack on Black Theology and Black Power by James Cone (and more on Beck's "social justice" heresies). Captive minds, then and now: Tony Judt on Czeslaw Milosz. From New York, Emily Nussbaum on the strange gender-humor divide in fake-real news; and what would a maverick do? Joe Hagan on John McCain, still at war. From NYRB, Jeff Madrick on Obama’s risky business: The unavoidable fact of the matter is that the effectiveness of regulation will depend entirely on how regulators attend to their duties in the future.