0 What You Could Read and Watch in 2016

Many New Year's resolutions reflect a desire to read more, to see more, to be more connected to thought and culture. I'm fortunate to have friends -- and even some enemies -- who are brilliant, thoughtful, and engaged. Their recommendations are priceless and much of my own education has been the result of conversations with them. I asked my network for the one "thing" that they are most thankful they experienced this past year. By "thing," I meant something like a book, movie, piece of art, etc.. Here is the list. BOOKS & READING Just Kids - Patti Smith Bo Ray Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960...

3 What We're Reading Today (10-5-15)

The Populist Prophet - The New Yorker Margaret Talbot Bernie Sanders, the Socialist Mayor  - The Atlantic Russell Banks The Breakdown of the Black Family  - The Atlantic Kay Hymowitz First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses  - The New Republic Roger D. Hodge Obama, Guns, and the Politics of Hopelessness - The New Yorker John Cassidy Many Former Foster Youths Don't Know They Have Health Care - NPR Ray Glier Our George Wallace - Slate Jamelle Bouie Jeb Bush, 'Free Stuff' and Black Folks - NY Times Charles Blow The Death of Evan Murray - Grantland Charles Pierce The Slave-State Origins of Modern Gun Rights - The Atlantic Saul...

0 What We're Reading Today (9-24-15)

The Washington Region Needs Bold Commitments to End the Housing Crisis - Greater Greater Washington David Bowers  (read the comments, as well) White Out: Why integrating America's neighborhoods and cities is harder than we think - Slate Jamelle Bouie Eyes all sticking like honey on bees - Matt's Newsletter Matthew Yglesias Black patients fare better than whites when both get same healthcare, study finds - LA Times  Alan Zarembo What Rugby Can Teach America About Honoring Indigenous Culture - The Atlantic  Jake Flanagin Political scientists think "the party" will stop Trump. They shouldn't be so sure. - Vox Andrew Prokop...

0 What We're Reading Today (9-14-15)

The Anti-Redskin - The Atlantic Ariel Sabar The Intersection of Faith and Politics - The Atlantic Erin Kotlan The vengeful god of Kim Davis: The powerful forces we ignore when we fixate on one Kentucky clerk - Salon Brittney Cooper A Brief Visual History of Weapons - The Atlantic Mark Zuckerberg and the End of Language - The Atlantic William Davies Scare Headlines Exaggerated The US Crime Wave - Five Thirty Eight Carl Bialik  Why I Put My Wife's Career First - The Atlantic Andrew Moravcsik Think Out Loud - The New Repulic Michael Eric Dyson Paid Leave's Champions This Week: Obama, Hilton Hotels, and Saudi Arabia - The New...

0 What We're Reading Today (9-7-15)

What Schools Will Do to Keep Students on Track - The Atlantic Kate Grossman Why the Plan to Shrink New Orleans Failed - Five Thirty Eight Gary Rivlin Katrina Washed Away New Orleans's Black Middle Class - Five Thirty Eight Ben Casselman Tracking Police Violence A Year After Ferguson - Five Thirty Eight Donovan X. Ramsey Chelsea Clinton's Letter to "Dad, Mom" about Haiti - US Department of State Chelsea Clinton From rustbelt to bluebelt - The Economist Watts: How racist housing policy helped light the flame - KCRW Jolie Myers Inside the GOP Clown Car - Rolling Stone Matt Taibbi The Passion of Kanye West - Rolling Stone Lola Ogunnaike Hillary...

0 What We've Been Reading Recently - Mike Brown, Eric Garner, #BlackLivesMatter, and more (UPDATE: 12/16/14)

A compilation of what I've been scouring on the InterWeb. It's by no means comprehensive or the most wonderful collection of links, posts, etc., but it's something to reference that shouldn't drive up your data charges like fracking through someone's Facebook Timeline. UPDATED: 12-16-14 (11:05 PM Central) Off Target on Toy-Gun Regulation - New York Times Jay Caspian Kang Cleveland police shot and killed 12 year-old Tamir Rice as he carried toy gun - Vox German Lopez How to Uphold White Supremacy by Focusing on Diversity and Inclusion - Model View Culture Kyra Another March on Washington? After Ferguson, 'That's not change. That's just church.'...

0 What We're Reading Today (7-30-2014)

Here's Proof That the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Winning - The New Republic Lane Florsheim The New Yorker Stories You Should Read Before the Paywall Goes Up - Slate Eliza Berman and Slate Staff The Girls Obama Forgot - NY Times Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Time for an Equal Rights Amendment - Politico Alexandra Brodsky and Elizabeth Deutsch Moms Winning the Common Core War - Politico Stephanie Simon Get Out of Jail, Inc. - The New Yorker Sarah Stillman Sympathy for the Overdog - Slate Luke O'Neil RAND Helps to Develop From Coverage to Care, a New CMS Initiative - RAND Laurie T. Martin and David M. Adamson Transit of Tomorrow - Chicago...