William Finnegan | New Yorker | 23 March 2012 "Can the American gun-rights movement ever go too far, politically? In Florida, prosecutors and police opposed the Stand Your Ground law, to no effect. Since the law was passed, the number of 'justifiable homicides' has tripled" Comments Justin Wolf | HBR | 21 March 2012 Today's customers are sophisticated and demanding. Give them bad stuff, they'll walk away. Right? Not quite. Get a credit card number, make it hard to unsubscribe, and you can milk them for months. That's the eFax business model Comments Bill McKibben | NYRB | 1 March 2012 The financial crisis could have been an opportunity to green advanced economies but fossil fuel lobbies are threatening the effort to make the future cleaner and greener. McKibben asks if fracking makes things better or worse Comments A McLaren | Foreign Policy | 15 March 2012 Pundits have described the defenestration of the Chongqing Party boss Bo Xilai, in the context of an ongoing power struggle, as the biggest political event in China for 20 years. This piece is one of the better ones on his downfall Comments Jason Fagone | Wired | 20 March 2012 "Erwin started typing. He posted his answer in a series of comments. Within an hour, he was an online celebrity. Within three hours, a film producer had reached out to him. Within two weeks, he was offered a deal to write a movie" Comments Tony Judt | NYRB | 12 March 2012 This Tony Judt piece is a reminder that the democracy debate is never straightforward. He makes the telling point that the biggest danger democracies face is to become a decadent version of themselves Comments | 
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