The New Yorker
The Cop
The New Yorker
20+ min read · From 2017 · Darren Wilson says he wants to stop thinking about what happened in Ferguson. But the town isn’t done.
The Atlantic
I Debated Steve Bannon. It Didn't Turn Out the Way I Expected.
The Atlantic
10 min read · From 2018 · I argued against the false promise of what Trump's former strategist bills as populism. Then events took a strange turn.
Aeon+Psyche
As the Ancient Greeks knew, frankness is an essential virtue
Aeon+Psyche
4 min read · 2020-05-21 · Who can speak truth to the leaders? The story of parrhesía, from classical Greece to Christian martyrs and beyond
Yes!
Psychology Today
Self-Love and Narcissists: A Correlation of Control
Psychology Today
4 min read · 2020-05-22 · Is there a relationship between low self-esteem and falling for a narcissist?
The Atlantic Photo
Photos: The Works of Christo
The Atlantic Photo
8 min read · 2020-06-01 · With the passing of artist Christo, yesterday, at the age of 84, a look back at some of the enormous installations created by Christo and his wife and partner Jeanne-Claude.
The New York Times
Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report
The New York Times
6 min read · 2020-06-01 · Five hundred species are likely to become extinct over the next two decades, according to a new study.
The New York Times
Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites
The New York Times
8 min read · 2020-06-03 · When the officers use kicks, chokeholds, punches, takedowns, Mace spray, Tasers and the like, the person subject to that force is black about 60 percent of the time.
The Guardian
Ghost, angel, martyr: the brutal brilliance of George Floyd murals from Syria to Belfast
The Guardian
~18 min read · 2020-06-05 · In Minneapolis, he’s an unforgiving ghost. In Naples, a saint weeping blood. In Nantes, a revolutionary. Our critic on how the killing has inflamed street artists worldwide
The Guardian
The toppling of Edward Colston's statue is not an attack on history. It is history
The Guardian
5 min read · 2020-06-08 · The slave trader’s figure loomed over Bristol for 125 years. Now a multiracial protest has achieved what past campaigns couldn’t, says historian and broadcaster David Olusoga
Rolling Stone
Republican Larry Hogan, America's Most Popular Governor, Has Some Advice for Trump
Rolling Stone
9 min read · 2020-06-11 · A conversation with Maryland’s Larry Hogan, a GOPer who isn’t afraid to tell Trump what’s what
New York Magazine
Is There Still Room for Debate?
New York Magazine
~11 min read · 2020-06-12 · America is in a revolutionary moment. Being able to question ideology is more important than ever.
Quillette
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered
Quillette
6 min read · 2020-06-13 · Tony Timpa was 32 years old when he died at the hands of the Dallas police in August 2016. He suffered from mental health difficulties and was unarmed. He wasn’t resisting arrest. He had called the…
copinthehood.com
"Are you done?"
copinthehood.com
~12 min read · 2020-06-14 · When Sandra Bland was asked by Officer Encinia if she, "was done," she actually was. Officer Encinia could have issued a ticket or a warning...
Vox
How today’s protests compare to 1968, explained by a historian
Vox
8 min read · 2020-06-02 · Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
Quillette
For Journalists, The New York Times’ Social-Justice Meltdown Is a Sign of Things to Come
Quillette
10 min read · 2020-06-11 · On Sunday, two weeks following the shocking killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the city’s leaders pledged to overhaul their entire municipal police department. The move could…
Quillette
COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons
Quillette
~18 min read · 2020-04-23 · In 1899, a German bacteriologist named Carl Flügge proved that microbes can be transmitted ballistically through large droplets that emit at high velocity from the mouth and nose. His method for…
Boston Review
A Politics of the Future
Boston Review
~15 min read · 2020-06-12 · Despite the myth that deaths of the elderly are never untimely, the author mourns a friend, fifty years his senior, who succumbed to COVID-19 She taught him that a moral life entails wanting those…
WIRED
Plastic Rain Is the New Acid Rain
WIRED
7 min read · 2020-06-11 · Researchers find that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic fall on 11 protected areas in the US annually, equivalent to over 120 million plastic water bottles.
Matt Taibbi
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
Matt Taibbi
~14 min read · 2020-06-12 · A flurry of newsroom revolts has transformed the American press
jewishcurrents.org
Stealing Away in America
jewishcurrents.org
10 min read · 2020-06-17 · Vicky Osterweil, author of the forthcoming book In Defense of Looting, discusses the ways that looting contests the racial capitalist logics at the heart of American empire.
The Verge
20 years of space photos: an oral history of Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Verge
8 min read · 2020-06-17 · Try to name as many websites as you can that are more than 20 years old. It's not that easy, right? As someone who was around for the arrival of the World Wide Web, even I have trouble...
filmsforaction.org
The White Man in That Photo
filmsforaction.org
2020-05-30 · Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics...
New York Magazine
The Still-Vital Case for Liberalism in a Radical Age
New York Magazine
~12 min read · 2020-06-11 · Does the revolution need to involve quite so much canceling?
Tor.com
An Open Letter to J.K. Rowling
Tor.com
6 min read · 2020-06-11 · Dear J.K. Rowling, I hate writing this.
48hills.org
The week ACT UP shut SF down
48hills.org
8 min read · 2020-06-19 · 25th anniversary events commemorate historic Sixth International Conference on AIDS protests -- and reunite seminal activists, Fri/19-Sun/21. By Marke B.
tabletmag.com
Transgendering Stonewall: Gay Rights Join the Victimhood Olympics
tabletmag.com
2020-07-03 · Was Anne Frank “bisexual?” Keen to claim her as one of their own, some queer activists are citing previously overlooked passages from the complete and unabridged second edition of Frank’s diary as…
