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 What We're Reading Today (11-27-12): Whiteness; "Most-Racial" America; Obama's Cabinet; Israel on Iran and Settlements

Whiteness in the Age of Obama - Huffington Post
Jedediah Purdy

Most-Racial America: Anti-White Bigotry goes Mainstream - Wall Street Journal
James Taranto

Obama's New Cabinet - New York Times
Joe Nocera

Bitter struggle over internet regulation to dominate global summit - Reuters
Joseph Menn

The Other Fiscal Fight - Politico
Carrie Budoff Brown & Jake Sherman

Is Hillel truly "the foundation for Jewish campus life" for all Jews? - Tufts Daily
Julia Wedgle

Israel's Iran and Settlements Switcheroo - The New Republic
Ben Birnbaum

0 What We're Reading Today (11-12-12): Venice, the GOP and White People, Electoral College is Dumb/Awesome

Grover Norquist: Mitt Romney painted as "poopy-head" - Politico
Kevin Robillard and Katie Glueck

Romney is President - The New York Times
Maureen Dowd

Republicans Have Problems with White Voters, Too - The New Republic
Nate Cohn

Defending the Electoral College - Slate
Richard Posner

A Rebuttal of Richard Posner's Moronic Defense of the Electoral College - Gawker
Hamilton Nolan

Venice Under Water - The Atlantic

Sanctions Have Crippled Iran's Economy, but They're Not Working\ - The New Republic
Christopher de Bellaigue

Stuff White People Like - The New Republic
Jonathan Cohn

0 What We're Reading Today (10-31-12)

Chicago Passes Last Year's Homicide Total of 435 - The Grio
Ugonna Okpalaoka

Oct. 30: What State Polls Suggest About the National Popular Vote - FiveThirtyEight
Nate Silver

Slate's Electoral Map Challenge - Slate
Chris Kirk

Change Newspapers Can Believe In - Slate
David Weigel

Getting Iran to Say, "Uncle," Might not be Smart - Foreign Policy
Stephen M. Walt

Romney's Window in Ohio is Closing - The New Republic
Nate Cohn