0 What We're Reading Today (3-29-13)

What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make? - The Nation
Melissa Harris-Perry

 Adbusters Call for Actions to Shut Down Goldman Sachs Offices - Democracy Now

Unintended Consequences: Is U.S. Law Inadvertantly Hurting Apple? - The Atlantic
Adam Pasick

Malicious Obstruction in the Senate - New York Times
Editorial

This Street Art by Felice Varini Will Blow Your Mind - The Atlantic Cities
Henry Grabar

What Happened to Rainbows? Why Facebook Turned Red for Gay Rights - The Atlantic
Ashley Fetters

2,000 Years of Partying: The Brief History and Economics of Spring Break - The Atlantic
Derek Thompson

'We Were Handcuffing Kids For No Reason': Stop-And-Frisk Goes On Trial - The Nation
Ryan Deveraux

Rewriting the story of polarized debate: He got Tea Party and Occupy to talk - Christian Science Monitor
Allison Terry

The Heat in Hindsight - Grantland
Bill Simmons

Black Folks Are Catching Racist Hell Throughout the UK & Europe as Austerity Kicks In - Davey D's Hip-Hop Corner
Davey D

0 What We're Reading Today (3-27-13)

Mother to Son: A Conversation on Black Womanhood & Survival - The Feminist Wire
Darnell L. Moore

How Marshall Henderson Gets Away With Being Marshall Henderson - Deadspin
Greg Howard

Number of Democratic Holdouts Against Gay Marriage Is Dwindling Fast - The Daily Beast
David Freedlander

Welcome to Palestine: What's Your Faith? - The Daily Beast
Maysoon Zayid

A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher's Affirmative Action Case is Really About - Pro Publica
Nikole Hannah Jones

The White Student Suing to Overthrow Affirmative Action Was Too Dumb to Get Into Her Chosen College - Gawker
Tom Scocca

Against the 'Conversation on Race' - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Competitive Timed Tests Might Be Contributing to the Gender Gap in Math - The Atlantic
Emily Richmond

After Dorner: How the LAPD Has Covered Up Its Bad Behavior - The Nation
Uzma Kolsy

5 Justices Wary of Law Denying US Benefits to Gay Spouses - New York Times
Adam Liptak and Peter Baker

America, You Crushed My Country and Now It Has No Future - AlterNet
Dahr Jamail

Slow Food Quickens the Pace - New York Times
Mark Bittman

0 What We're Reading Today (3-26-13)

States Chipping Away at Roe v. Wade - New York Times

Our Kind of Ridiculous: Yous, Me and Blackness as Probable Cause - Gawker
Kiese Laymon

Misogyny and Powerful Women - Al Jazeera
Alison Booth

No, a Sweeping Gay Marriage Ruling Won't Trigger a Backlash - The New Republic
David Fontana

How Gay Liberation became a Family Values Movement - Automatic Writing

The Prehistory of Gay Marriage: Watch a 1971 Protest at NYC's Marriage License Bureau - The Atlantic
Garance Franke-Ruta

Defending Fox News Is a Fool's Errand for Conservatives - The Atlantic
Conor Friedersdorf

To Chinua Achebe, With Love - Color Lines
Akiba Solomon, Roopika Risam, Adeline Koh

Chinua Achebe Dies: Beyond 'Things Fall Apart,' And His Best Books - Daily Beast

Here Are the 7 Worst Things Antonin Scalia Has Said or Written About Homosexuality - Mother Jones
Adam Serwer

Drivers: Uber Is Skimming Our Tips - Mother Jones
Josh Harkinson

Gun control: Public support is waning, poll finds - Christian Science Monitor
Mark Guarino

Homeland Security seeks student hackers to help counter cyberthreats - Christian Science Monitor
Anna Mulrine

Here Be Dragons - The Daily Beast
Jace Lacob

Class-Divided Cities: Boston Edition - The Atlantic Cities
Richard Florida

0 What We're Reading Today (3-25-13)

Walking While Black in New York - New York Times
Editorial

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - The Atlantic
Anu Partanen

No, Jesus Wasn't a White Dude, Partner - Salon
Chauncey Devega

'Be More Like the Jews' - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Right to Remain Silent - This American Life

What's Wrong with the Term 'Person of Color' - Black Girl Dangerous
Janani

The Trouble with Justin Timberlake's Appropriation of Black Music - ColorLines
Jamilah King

What's Wrong with Fat-Shaming? - Everyday Feminism
Lesley Kinzel

Rethinking Israel-Palestine: Beyond Bantustans, Beyond Reservations - The Nation
Noura Erakat

The Erased Women of the Wall: Settler Feminism and the Moroccan Quarter - The Feminist Wire
Jimmy Johnson

The Ghetto Is Public Policy - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Trader Joe's Lesson: How to Pay a Living Wage and Still Make Money in Retail - The Atlantic
Sophie Quinton

What Rush Limbaugh Got Right About Beyonce - The Atlantic
Noah Berlatsky

0 What We're Reading Today (3-20-13)

It's snowy in Medfaaahd so I have had plenty of time to read today.  If my tabs are correct you should have about 15 goodies to pick from for your daily dose of knowledge.  Aproveche!

Also a big, Eid e shoma mobarak to all my Persian fam and friends out there!

The Modern King in the Arab Spring - The Atlantic
Jeffrey Goldberg

Storify: Jordanians' Reactions to the Atlantic's Feature on King Abdullah - 7iber

Sex, Violence, and Radical Islam: Why Persepolis Belongs in Public Schools - The Atlantic
Noah Berlatsky

Race Didn't Cost Abigail Fisher Her Spot at the University of Texas - The Atlantic Wire
Nikole Hannah-Jones

I Am Not Your Wife, Sister, or Daughter. I am a person. - The Belle Jar
Anne Theriault

On Steubenville, Guns, and Healthy Echo Chambers - ColorLines
Akiba Solomon

America's defender of the status quo(s) - Haaretz
Amira Hass

Arundhati Roy on Iraq War's 10th: Bush May be Gone, but "Psychosis" of US Foreign Policy Prevails - Democracy Now
Amy Goodman

Iraq War's 10th Anniversary: Occupation and Insurgency - The Atlantic: In Focus
(part 2 of a 3-part series)

Arguing Iraq--Ten Years Later: A symposium - The New Republic
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Paul Berman, Leon Wieseltier, Michael Ignatieff, David Greenberg, James P. Rubin, David Rieff, and John B. Judis

How Obama Can Learn to Speak Israeli: Advice to the president on his visit - The New Republic
Yossi Klein Halevi

AUDIO: New York's Police Union Worked With the NYPD to Set Arrest and Summons Quotas - The Nation
Ross Tuttle

Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine - Jacobin
Avi Asher-Schapiro

The Forgotten Rosa Parks - Jacobin
Samir Sonti

Toure Makes the Case Against Calling Immigrants 'Illegals' - ColorLines
Jorge Rivas

0 Telly & Sparbz - 42 Cypher feat. Bryce and Camo

Just showing some Tufts love

0 What We're Reading Today (3-14-13)

Jay-Z's Hegemony in the Age of Kanye - Foreign Policy
Marc Lynch

What the Name "Francis I" means for the Modern Church - The Atlantic
David M. Perry

The Midwife of American Freedom - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

China's Hip, New First Lady - The Atlantic
Lily Kuo

Steubenville and Challenging Rape Culture in Sports - The Nation
Dave Zirin

The Emir of NYU: John Sexton's Abu Dhabi Debacle - The Atlantic
Zvika Kreiger

How Racism is Bad for Our Bodies - The Atlantic
Jacob Silverstein

NYPD Violence Looms in Third Day of Protests for Kimani Grey - Colorlines
Jamilah King

Black Lawmakers Demand End to Prison-to-Deportation Pipeline - Colorlines
Seth Fred Wessler

Let's Face It: Israel has a Racism Problem - Haaretz
Ilene Prusher

Israel Harms Palestinian Economy: Report - Al Jazeera

South African Groups Launch 'Israeli Apartheid Week' at Jo'burg Memorial to Apartheid - Mondoweiss
Annie Robbins

Love in the Time of Apartheid - Al Akhbar

The Worst Contracts in the NBA - Grantland
Bill Simmons

Higgs Boson Discovery Confirmed after Physicists Review LHC at CERN - Huffington Post
John Heilprin

47% Filmmaker Tells All - Huffington Post

0 Tufts Divest Participates in "Funeral for Our Future"

I'll let them speak for themselves

"On Monday, March 11, over 100 people representing a coalition of students, members fo the Massachusetts Methodist clergy, mothers fighting for their children, and concerned community members marched into the Westborough, MA office of TransCanada Corporation and held a funder mourning the loss of our future at the hands of the Keystone XL Pipeline.  The pipeline will transport the tar sands that climate scientists say will lock us into irreversible global warming.
Of those 100 protesters, 25 of us locked themselves together with handcuffs and were arrested in an act of civil disobedience. Carrying a coffin emblazoned with the words “Our Future,” we held flowers and sang an elegy as we marched in procession....“If the tar sands are extracted and burned, it will wipe out my future and the future of my entire generation,” said Will Pearl, a Tufts University freshman arrested in our action. “If President Obama will not reject the Keystone XL pipeline, we will stop it ourselves. We will rise up and resist—from the backwoods of Texas, to corporate offices in Massachusetts, to the steps of the White House.”

Funeral for our Future

Tufts Divest

0 What We're Reading Today (3-12-13)

Why It Matters that Rand Paul Got His Answer - The Atlantic
Conor Friedersdorf

Coal Power Plants are Killing Thousands in Europe: Report - The Atlantic: Cities
John Metcalfe

Forgive Me Mentor, For I Will Run: How Marco Rubio Could End Jeb Bush' Electoral Career - The New Republic
Marin Cogan

Man sets himself ablaze in Tunisia - Al Jazeera

How the 'war on terror' in England became a war on women and children - al Jazeera
Victoria Brittain

Does Ashley Judd Stand a Chance - The New Republic
Nate Cohn

Punto y seguido o punto y final - El Pais
Ramon Besa

Beyond Great! Man Utd Legend Sir Bobby Charleton would love Nike-fueled Cristiano Ronaldo swoop - Mirror Football
Alex Hankin

0 What We're Reading Today (3-11-13)

The Liberals Against Affirmative Action - New York Times
David Leonhardt

Why Does America Pretend it Doesn't Hate Women - Feminspire
Anisha Ahuja

The Crimson's Anti-Palestinian Bias - Harvard Political Review
Lena Awwad, Giacomo Bagarella, Asmaa Rimawi, Hannah Schafer

On Questioning the Jewish State - New York Times
Joseph Levine

Venezuela After Chavez - Jacobin
Jeffrey R. Weber

The End of the Two-State Solution: Why the window is closing on Middle-East peace - The New Republic
Ben Birnbaum

Kate Upton and Ryan Gosling Explain the Sequester - Gawker
Max Read

The Threat of an Imperial President - The Nation
Tom Hayden

Did NYPD Entrap Ahmed Ferhani - The Nation
John Knefel

0 100

This is Snakes on McCain's 100th post

that is all

0 What We're Reading Today (3-8-13)

Israel's Dreaded Tipping Point has Finally Arrived - The Atlantic
S. Daniel Abraham

12 SXSW Panels, Films and Concerts that Deserve Your Attention - Colorlines
Jorge Rivas

Obama's Fatherhood Meme Ruffles Otherwise Ardent Supporters - Colorlines
Jamilah King

Cheap Eats: How America Spends Its Money on Food - The Atlantic
Derek Thompson

The Bike Helmet Paradox - The Atlantic
James Hamblin

If You Want a Strong US Economy, Root for China - The Atlantic
Zachary Karabell

The Tyranny of the Zip Code - The New Republic
Anna Clarke

No One Should have to Live in Fear of Violence - The Root
Valerie Jarrett

Afghan Women Face the Future - The Nation
Ann Jones

Still no Wrigley Deal after Emanuel, Ricketts, aldermen meet - Chicago Tribune
Hal Dardick

The Last All-Nighter - New York Times
Kate Miller

0 What We're Reading Today (3-7-13)

Obama's Dining Room Diplomacy: Why his charm offensive could yield a grand bargain - The New Republic
Noam Schrieber

Elizabeth Warren: Bust banks that launder money - Politico
Patrick Reis

The Good, Racist People - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Wealth Inequality is a Problem, But How do You Even Begin to Solve It - The Atlantic
Derek Thompson

Afghanistan, February 2013: Anti-Taliban Militias - The Atlantic

Why the Invasion of Iraq was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History - The Nation
Peter Van Buren

The Folly of Sober-Minded Cynicism - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Looking for Azealia's Harlem Shake, Or How We Mistake the Politics of Obliteration for Appropriation - Out of Nowhere
Fan0n

Supreme Court: Uphold the Voting Rights Act! - The Nation
Ari Berman

0 What We're Reading Today (3-6-13)

Stoicism and Black Women's Armor: 
Clutch Magazine- LaChelle W.

Trigger Warning – How to Love?: Thoughts on Wayne’s “Emmett Till” Lyrics and More

Crunck Feminist Collective: Moya and Whitney

The Last All-Nighter
NY Times: Kate Miller

Over Obama’s objections, Supreme Court pushes view of ‘post-racial’ America
TheRoot.com: Perry Bacon Jr.

In some parts of Yemen, 'the free south lives'
The Christian Science Monitor: Adam Baron

On the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
The Nation: Greg Grandin

Flash of Red Leaves United Speechless
NY Times: Sam Borden

And on campus....:

Op-Ed | Blackness, Palestine, solidarity: A call for a critical love ethic
Tufts Daily: Tabias Wilson

0 What We're Reading Today (3-2-13)

Israeli army ire over social media posts - BBC 
Yolande Knell

The Arcane Rules that Keep Low-Income Kids Out of College - The Atlantic
Sarah Carr

Al Qaeda Hits Obama for Marriage Equality - Mother Jones
Adam Serwer

The psycho-sexual ordeal of reporting in Washington - The New Republic
Marin Cogan

A Few Men Who Begged Me Not to Write About Them - Gawker
N. Michelle AuBuchon


Israel pondrá autobuses solo para palestinos para que no usen los regulares - El Mundo

0 "The Ghetto, Public Policy, and the Jewish Exception" - Ta-Nehisi Coates

After learning about racial covenants in Professor Sharpe's Home is Where the Hatred Is, I was glad to see that Ta-Nehisi Coates (one of my favorites over at The Atlantic) was doing some research into the matter of his own.  The ways in which racial covenants and the process of red-lining neighborhoods and property led to exploitation and tension between black and Jewish residents leads me to think more on Baldwin's comments in his essay The Harlem Ghetto about the relatoinship between blacks and Jews in Harlem.  Still just raisins in the sun, I guess.

The Ghetto, Public Policy, and the Jewish Exception

How Good Principles can Make Bad Rules - The Daily Beast

Megan McArdle

The Titanic Wealth Gap between Blacks and Whites - The American Prospect

Jamelle Bouie

0 What We're Reading Today (3-1-13)

The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case - The New Republic
Yochai Benkler

We Aren't the World - The Pacific Standard
Ethan Watters

Supreme Court Poised to Declare Racism Over - Mother Jones
Adam Serwer

Rahm on the Ropes - The Nation
Rick Perlstein

Congress Honors Rosa Parks while the Supreme Court Targets the Voting Rights Act - The Nation
Ari Berman

Goodbye, Bob - Gawker
John Cook

Go for the Throat! - Slate
John Dickerson