Informed Weekend: 10 Links I Learned From This Week (Vol. 9)

Here are the ten links I learned from this week. For more on the 2016 presidential election, see here.

1. Hard to say: A statement at the heart of the debate over academic freedom (The Economist)
2. How Ted Cruz used good political science to design a disastrous mailer (Vox)
3. Gender and Emotions on the Campaign Trail (Midwest Political Science Association)
4. Obama’s Controversial Higher-Ed Legacy (The Atlantic)
5. Six Degrees of Separation? Facebook Finds a Smaller Number (The New York Times)
6. Americans want limits on their presidents – even the ones they voted for (Vox)
7. Why are Americans so angry? (BBC News)
8. Who killed the death penalty? (The Economist)
   1. Further Reading: A Record Number of Exonerations in the U.S. (The Atlantic)
9. One party has decided. The other hasn’t. (Vox)
10. Understanding the U.S. Primaries (The Everygirl)