Peter Stothard | WSJ | 8 March 2012 Marcus Cicero's younger brother wrote a manual for winning Roman elections in 64BC. His advice still holds good. "Every day, as you go down to the Forum, you should say to yourself: 'I am an outsider. I want to be Consul'." Comments David Cole | NYRB | 6 March 2012 Taking apart attorney-general Eric Holder's claim that the US president has the right to order the killing of US citizens, without due process of law, so long as it's part of the war on terror. It's official. But is it right? Comments Gabrielle Hecht | Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists | 1 March 2012 Superb essay. "When does uranium count as a nuclear substance? When does it lose that status? And what does Africa have to do with it? Such issues lie at the heart of today’s global nuclear order. Or disorder, as the case may be" Comments Ralf Beste et al | Spiegel | 6 March 2012 There never really was a de-Nazification after the war. A few leaders were executed, a lot of lies were told. But a Nazi past was no barrier to joining the West German establishment. Half a century later, the files are open Comments Choire Sicha | Awl | 6 March 2012 In which the author registers for the US government's Global Entry programme, which will "pre-certify" him as having no criminal record, and thus entitle him to less intrusive customs procedures at airports. Or so he hopes Comments Cristina Nehring | Condé Nast Traveler | 23 February 2012 "I was tired of sunny, innocuous islands. Islands with the clamor of coddled children and the courtship of minor celebrities. What I was after this summer was the opposite. Not cheery, chirpy islands but moody islands" Comments | 
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