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Correction for "Examining long-term trends in politics and culture through language of political leaders and cultural institutions," by Kayla N. Jordan, Joanna Sterling, James W. Pennebaker, and Ryan L. Boyd, which was first published February 11, 2019; 10.1073/ pnas.1811987116 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116:3476–3481). The authors note that their conflict of interest statement was omitted during publication. The authors declare the following: "J.W.P. is the owner of the text analysis program LIWC. All profits from the sales of LIWC are donated to the University of Texas at Austin."

Comparison of local governments in federal systems helps design new policies. In particular, this study presents federal asymmetries of state and municipal governments in Latin American countries. To this end, the hypothesis states that nations with more symmetry would have greater governance within the federal pact. The study includes the social, political, constitutional, and economic subjects as main variables applied to the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The analysis is supported by coefficients and graphs to aid the multidisciplinary approach. The results show that Brazil is the most asymmetric nation and Mexico the most centralized.

On the theoretical backdrop of Mike Davis's Ecology of Fear, Michel Foucault's Of Other Spaces', Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies and Gilles Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control', this essay traces how Pynchon addresses the relentless capitalisation of life and politics. Against the idea that his late work is Pynchon Lite', the essay argues that Pynchon's overall poetics and ethics, have, if anything, become even more strident, with Bleeding Edge the most bitter and angry novel he has written so far; a true late' work, a Jeremiad that, somewhat like Goya's pinturas negras, throws reality into stark and clear relief. At the centre of the discussion is the notion of greed as an obscure compulsion to gather wealth beyond that which is enough'. Of all living creatures, only humans have developed economies of infinite greed. As both greed and economy are time- and site-specific, Pynchon provides carefully researched chronologies and geographies of the two in order to adequately address their interaction in particular historical moments. With his tales of dispossession and betrayal', of which this essay traces in particular Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge, Pynchon becomes one of many American writers and filmmakers who have made greed the centre of their concern.

This article seeks to problematise current frameworks of global environmental governance by examining how the neoliberal model continues to rely on the state to suppress plurinational justice. Firstly, it discusses the creation of counter-hegemonic discourses through the emergence of new centres of epistemic production. Secondly, it analyses the ways in which these narratives interact, or fail to interact, with state policies on a local, national and international level through the case study of Evo Morales' Bolivia. The article argues that one of main challenges confronting environmental governance will be to reformulate sovereignty as an epistemic and relational – as well as political and territorial – set of relationships.