Thursday, July 17, 2014

0 What We're Reading Today (7-17-14)

Jameelah has been harassing me everyday to give her articles to read. Jameelah, here is the dump. This should be like 20+ articles for  you and the rest of The Horde to consume. Happy reading and happier summers to everyone.

With Friends Like These... On the Military Occupation of Chicago - Prison Culture

What We Talk About When We Talk About Violence in Chicago - NPR
Gene Demby

Kafka's Joke Book - McSweeney's
John McNamee

Which Supreme Court Justices Vote Together Most and Least Often - NY Times
Jeremy Bowers, Adam Liptak, Derek Willis

The Democrats Are Finally Turning Away from Israel - Foreign Policy
Michael A. Cohen

Democracy, Freedom, and Apple Pie Aren't a Foreign Policy - Foreign Policy
Stephen M. Walt

Newspapers That Aren't Dying - The Atlantic
Devjyot Ghoshal

The Survivor: How Eric Holder outlasted his (many) critics - Politico
Glenn Thrush

Why Poor Schools Can't Win at Standardized Testing - The Atlantic
Meredith Broussard

Lionel Messi Is Impossible - FiveThirtyEight
Benjamin Morris

Behind Harry Reid's war against the Koch Brothers - Politico
Kenneth P. Vogel

The World Cup of Dirty Dreams: Inside Brazil's Most Infamous Brothel - Rolling Stone
Amos Barshad

Brazil's 'Quilombo' Movement May Be The World's Largest Slavery Reparations Program - Huffington Post
Roque Planas

Deadly Embrace - London Review of Books
Jacqueline Rose

Florida Deja Voodoo - Slate
Ron Klain

Talking Openly About Obama and Race - New Yorker
Jelani Cobb

Thanks to Urbanization, Tomorrow's Megalopolises Will Be in Africa and Asia - Foreign Policy
Reid Standish

Black Chicago Divided - In These Times
Salim Muwakkil

Blood in the Streets: A Conversation About Gun Violence in Chicago - Gawker
Jason Parham

Love in the Time of Racism - Ada New Media
Darnell Moore and Monica J. Casper

Always on the Side of the Egg - Haaretz
Haruki Murakami

Why One of the Biggest LGBT Orgs Has Stopped Supporting ENDA - Advocate
Rea Carey

Five Young Palestinians on What It's Like to Live and Die in Gaza - The Daily Beast
Dean Obeidallah

The Hip-Hop Fellow Outtakes: Young Guru on the Rise of Kanye West - NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Mark Anthony Neal

Appeals Court upholds affirmative action in Fisher v. Texas - Politico
Allie Grasgreen

Pirates, the Printing Press, and Global Democracy - Huffington Post
Don Kraus and Logan Cotton

UN to Confront United States on Persistent Racial Discrimination - ACLU
Chandra Bhatnagar

Twitterball - Tech Crunch
Matthew Panzarino

Visualizing a Day in the Life of a New York City Cab - FiveThirtyEight
Chadwick Matlin


Also, this World Cup video is here to give  you all the nostalgia.

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