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 Magazine
Adam Doster

Whiteness Is Still a Proxy for Being American - The Atlantic
Peter Beinart

The Unforgotten - Boston Globe
Maria Sacchetti

Syria's War Poets - The Atlantic
Elliot Ackerman

Israel Creates 'No Man's Land' in Gaza, Shrinking Strip by 40 Percent - The Daily Beast
Jesse Rosenfeld

40 Charts that explain money in politics - Vox
Andrew Prokop

The American Idea at War - The Atlantic
James Bennet

Satanists Troll Hobby Lobby - The Atlantic
Emma Green

The New York Times Is a Great Company in a Terrible Business - The Atlantic
Derek Thompson

The Port Authority Thinks It Owns the New York City Skyline - CityLab
Polly Mosendz

Psychologists Find a Surprising Thing Happens to Kids Who Read Harry Potter - Arts Mic
Tom McKay

0 What We're Reading Today (7-23-14)

Women Penalized for Promoting Women, Study Finds - Wall Street Journal
Rachel Feintzeig

How Questlove Is Bringing Music Back to Television - The Daily Beast
Kevin Fallon

A pause in global warming? Studies try to better explain what's happened - CS Monitor
Pete Spotts

We Can Code It! Why computer literacy is key to winning the 21st century - Mother Jones
Tasneem Raja

How America Finances the Destruction in Gaza -- and the Clean-Up - Mother Jones
David Corn

Jordan's Quiet Emergency - The Atlantic
Alice Su

I Hate Ayn Rand but here's Why My Fellow Conservatives Love Her - The Week
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Why Black People Must Stand with Palestine - Ebony
Kristian Davis Bailey

The Terrifying Madness of Waking Up in Gaza - Slate
Atef Abu Saif

Black Female Survival and the Myth of the White Gay Cultural Savior, or, Dear Anthony -- Stop It! - Huffington Post
Darnell L. Moore and Hashim Khalil Pipkin

"The more dead, the better:" Israel's Crumbling Media War - Salon
Deepa Kumar

Obama Goes There on "Acting White" - Washington Post
Jonathan Capehart

How LGBT Students Are Changing Christian Colleges - The Atlantic
Philip Francis and Mark Longhurst

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantazine - KickStarter
Fariha, Haley, Sara

Suburban sprawl and bad transit can crush opportunity for the poor - Vox
Danielle Kurtzleben

0 What We're Reading Today (7-21-14)

Austin's Black Population Leaving City, Report Says - NY Times
Corrie Maclaggan

West Philadelphia, Reborn and Razed - Politico
John Marchese

What We Learned from Liberals at Netroots Nation - Politico
Katie Glueck

White Gay Man Publishes Epically Stupid Response To "Stop Stealing Black Female Culture" - Autostraddle
Yvonne

NYC Can't Afford to Build the Second Avenue Subway, and It Can't Afford Not To - City Lab
Benjamin Kabak

Your summer reading list: Rashida Jones, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill and Melinda Gates and many more share their book recommendations - TED
Katie Torgovnick May

Why the Voting Rights Act Still Matters: The Case of Jasper, Texas - The Atlantic
Norm Ornstein

The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker - The New Republic
Alec MacGillis

New Starts: New Orleans Transit Wish List, Loop Relief on the Cheap, Trams Return to Luxembourg - Next City
Sandy Smith

When You're Poor, Money Is Expensive - The Atlantic
Derek Thompson

MSNBC Contributor Slams Network For Pro-Israel Coverage: 'We Are Ridiculous!' - Talking Points Memo
Tom Kludt

Eric Garner and the Plague of Police Brutality Against Black Men - Vice
Wilbert L. Cooper

Kanye West on the Meaning of Life - The Atlantic
Spencer Kornhaber

Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye - GQ
Zach Baron

Black Palestinians shrug-off racism - Al-Monitor
Almaa Al-Ghoul

12 New Yorker education articles to read while the archives are free - Vox
Libby Nelson

The Middle East Friendship Chart - Slate
Joshua Keating and Chris Kirk

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.

0 What We're Reading Today (5-27-13)

First and foremost, we would like to recognize the contribution of those for whom Memorial Day exists.  We would have said "Thanks" but my buddy who is a Marine, Vijay, said that is one of the most difficult things to say to someone who has served and he wished people wouldn't say thank you as much as they would just recognize his service.

Global War on Terror, R.I.P. - The Nation
Bob Dreyfuss

The AP's Privacy, and Ours - The Nation
David Cole

The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks - The Nation
Ken Silverstein

Letter to 'The Nation' From a Young Radical - The Nation
Bhaskar Sunkara

College Grads Are Jobless In China's 'High Growth' Economy - Forbes
Gordon G. Chang

How to Save the GOP - The Atlantic
Molly Ball

Ryanair: Is it really Europe's most punctual airline? - BBC
Charlotte McDonald

Ask Alison: When to Get a Number, Replacing Dogs, and Long-Distance Confrontation - The Atlantic
Alison Agosti

The World Still Needs American Muscle - Real Clear World
Robert Kaplan

The Promise of Africa - Real Clear World
Ian Shapiro

Five Television Shows Shaping World Politics - Real Clear World

Wayne Miller, Photographer Who Captured Black Chicago, Dies - NPR
Allison Keyes

Europe to demand structural reform over austerity - Guardian
Reuters

PA: No political concessions for economic benefit - Jerusalem Post
Staff

Trying to Revive Mideast Talks, Kerry Pushes Investment Plan for West Bank - New York Times
Michael R. Gordon and Jodi Rudoren

Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad - Wall Street Journal
Laura Kreutzer

Who Will Crack the Code? - New York Times
David Leonhardt

California Faces a New Quandry, Too Much Money - New York Times
Adam Nagourney

Every Trader and Investor Should Be Watching the Dollar - Minyanville
Tom Pizzuti and Kurt Hulse

via Real Clear World

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 (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 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 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 (3-2-13)

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 What We're Reading Today (12-1-12): Red vs Blue; Rwandan Ghosts; Susan Rice

Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide is Splitting America - The Atlantic
Josh Kron

Susan Rice: Just Another 'Incompetent" Black Woman - The Daily Beast
Sophia A. Nelson

The Ecstasy and Agonies of a Permanent Democratic Majority - The New Republic
John B. Judis

The Ongoing Cost of the GOP's Diversity Problem - The New Republic
Alec MacGillis

Young and Restless: On Brigham Young - The Nation
Chris Lehmann

Hamas the Victorious? - The Nation
Graham Usher

Rwandan Ghosts - Foreign Policy
Jason K. Stearns

0 What We're Reading Today (11-28-12): Herr Krugman, Palestinian Statehood Bid, Ukraine's Topless Activists

Republicans Begin Pivot on Immigration - The Nation
Ben Adler

When Domestic Workers Suffer, Our Economy Suffers - The Nation
Bryce Covert

Please, Herr Krugman, May I have Another?  How America's Favorite Liberal Stokes German Masochism - The New Republic
Cameron Abadi

Are Your Facebook Friends Stressing You Out? (Yes!) - The Atlantic
Megan Garber

Femen, Ukraine's Topless Warriors - The Atlantic
Jeffrey Taylor

Don't Expect Tzipi Livni to Shake Up Israel's Election - The New Republic
Ben Birnbaum

Palestinians win more European support for limited statehood - Haaretz
Reuters

Misguided UN Bid - Jerusalem Post
Editorial

Support Palestinian Statehood - New York Times
Yossi Beilin

Exhuming Yasser Arafat - National Post
Jonathan Kay

The 20 Richest Metros in America - The Atlantic
Derek Thompson

35 Amazing Graphs the Show how Your Spending Habits Change with Age - The Atlantic
Sam Ro

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 (11-20-12): Anderson Cooper, Mohamed Morsi, and the War on Drugs

Anderson Cooper Shades Tweeter Over Gaza Comment - Buzzfeed

Stacy Lambe

Syria's Spray-Can Revolution - The Atlantic

James Harkin

The Israel-Gaza Conflict: A Guide to the Major Players - The Atlantic

Ron Synovitz

Exposed: UN agency rips IDF for video alleging Hamas uses Gaza schools to launch rockets - Russia Today

Mohamed Morsi in the Middle - The Nation

Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Rubio's Perplexing Punt on the Age of the Earth - The Atlantic

Garance Franke-Ruta

The Real Reasons You Waited in Line to Vote - The Atlantic

Richard H. Pildes

Assume Joke Dead - The New Republic

Alex Pareene

It's Time to End the War on Drugs - The Nation

Katrina vanden Heuvel

0 What We're Reading Today (11-19-12): Gaza, Education in Massachusetts, McKayala Maroney & Obama, and more Gaza

Finally, finally, finally, I have my laptop back. Props to Alex Kolodner of Tufts UIT for fixing it for me.  He and the crew at Tufts Online are saviors and also helped me save like $500 through their repair.  Many thanks and many beers to you all.

That said, let's get back into the swing of things.  Here is what we're reading today.

We in the Gaza Strip will not Die in Silence - The Guardian
Musa Abumarzuq

Geo-Politics and Dead Babies - The Daily Beast
Andrew Sullivan

Mashed Potatoes, Hummus, and Settler Colonialism - The Tufts Daily
Matthew Parsons

Turkey's Erdogan: Israel carrying out "terrorist acts" - The Daily Star
Reuters

A Report from Gaza Under Siege - The Nation
Mohammed Omer

Israeli Iron Dome Stops a Rocket with a Rocket - The New York Times
Isabel Kershner

Economic Costs of Gaza Fighting - Jerusalem Post
Felice Friedson, Linda Gradstein, The Media L

Small Arms, Big Problems - Foreign Policy
Damien Spleeters
** I only lightly skimmed this piece and think I need to revisit it.  I may have misread but some of the author's implications irked me

The battle between Israel and Gaza solves nothing - The Guardian
Jonathan Freedland

Report: Mass. Cuts Tuition for Illegal Immigrants - Politico
Kevin Robillard

Maroney: "Obama asked for 'the face'" - Politico
Caitlin McDevitt

Via Son of Baldwin (here)

0 What We're Reading Today (11-15-12): Gaza, "Premature Ejaculation", and the 50-Year Farm Bill

The 50-Year Farm Bill - The Atlantic
Wendell Berry

Study: We're Less Likely to Recognize Symptoms of Depression in Men - The Atlantic
Lindsay Abrams

Has Israel's Assault on Gaza Made Tel Aviv Vulnerable? - Time
Karl Vick

Study: Being a "Healthy" Degree of Neurotic Lowers Risk of Chronic Disease - The Atlantic
Lindsay Abrams

For Israel, Costs and Benefits of Striking Gaza - Christian Science Monitor
Dan Murphy

The Gaza Invasion: Will it Destroy Israel's Relationship with Egypt? - The Atlantic
Eric Trager

When is Ejaculation "Premature" and when should a Penis be made Numb? - The Atlantic
James Hamblin

How Vulnerable is John Kerry's Senate Seat? - The New Republic
Alec MacGillis

0 What We're Reading Today (11-12-12) #3: Radical Community, The Iron Man, The People of Color Majority

After the Love Has Gone: Some Thoughts on Radical Community After the Election - The Crunk Feminist Collective
Crunkadelic

A Letter to All My Dismal Allies on the US Left - The Guardian
Rebecca Solnit

The Iron Man - CounterPunch
Uri Averny

Red Versus Blue in a New Light - The New York Times
Andrew Gelman and Avi Feller

Cornel West: "Obama is a Rockefeller Republican in Black Face," Harris-Perry and Dyson are up for Sale - News One
Kirsten West Savali

Five Race and Gender Justice Lessons Learned From this Marathon Election Cycle - ColorLines
Akiba Solomon

A People of Color Majority Alters Politics. Movements Change the World - ColorLines
Rinku Sen