- The #studentloanshitshow: A "deal" to freeze student loan interest rates that's worse than the rate hike?
- Pam Brown on the interconnectedness of student debt and housing debt: Education Debt in the Ownership Society
- Molly Knefel on Bloomberg's latest bargaining chips: low-income kids.
- The Rejectionist on ambition, and leaving, and being a girl artist: What I Did the Summer After I Graduated
- Politico discovers populism, and that Democrats are shit at it: Dems Go AWOL In Class War
- Erik Loomis points out at least one of the gaping holes in Politico's story: The Class War Has a Name: Globalization
- Sports! And Ladies! Amanda Marcotte on What Sports and Reproductive Rights Have in Common
- The Strongest Woman in America Lives in Poverty is a pretty serious indictment of the "amateur" athletic culture of the Olympics. I sort of get the feeling that the writer doesn't know it.
- "No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst."Laura Flanders and Amber Hollibaugh talk about An Erotic Politics
- And a classic that everyone should read: Ellen Willis on the culture wars and why the left needs a politics of culture and class, of desire and freedom.
- Michelle Dean
- Jessica Francis Kane talks to her mother about working at Playboy.
- John Jeremiah Sullivan on William Faulkner.
- Mavis Gallant journals to be published.
- Tumblr: not just GPOY.
- Twitter: does good.
- Did you know Eve Sedgwick wrote television criticism?
- Brent Cox talks bridesmaid dress costs.
- The Awl concludes bad influences beat with Nadia Chaudhury on camp counselors.
- Where to start with Magic Mike?
- Activism burnout.
- Whatever happened to wallpaper?
- Art podcast roundup.
- Bill Simmons chats with Louis C.K.
- Lena Dunham on Nora Ephron's friendship.
- Moonrise Kingdom and puerility.
- Origins of the modern newspaper.
- Twitter's weirdest epic.
- Babies get shit done.
- Does finding something in an archive constitute a "discovery"? Suzanne Fisher says no. Helena Iles Papaioannou says yes. Spoiler: they both like archivists.
- The graphic design of Yiddish Communist magazines.
- Cord Jefferson on the misplaced nostalgia of Mad Men fetishists, Aaron Sorkin, and celebrations of the "Greatest Generation."
- Political science, punditry, prediction, and politicalPolitical science, punditry, prediction, and explanation.
- Turns out progressives enthusiastically support Obama when he does progressive things.
- Ira Glass explains the brilliance of RadioLab
- Why today is Canada Day, not Dominion Day.
- Silver linings for ACA losers; don't overread it; cooperative federalism in peril; dental disaster no matter what happens.
- How RomneyCare II would work; rapid evolution on the right.
- Wicked problems & the rhetoric of reaction.
- Addiction to acid reflux prevention.
- Self-insurance for the young & healthy.
- Reading you like a book.
- Supersad storage unit story
- Potemkin privacy regulation.
- Customized and personalized political manipulation.
- LIBOR-ding is not a crime; "Who's going to put my low fixings in hehehe;" "traders are the 'revenue generators' while those keeping them in check are commonly referred to as a 'cost centre'."
- We need to cut train service to pay for the swaps.
- Send in the quants: police edition.
Me:
- Israel's Ethiopian Jewish Immigration (video, Hebrew w/ English subtitles)
- Open Letter from a Millennial: Stop Telling Us We’re Not Special
- Argentinian "sex workers" versus "prostitutes": a fight for rights
- Video Games and Male Gaze
- On the domestic terror of the 1990s, and avoiding cultural amnesia
- Thatcherism: a red herring?
- New York City Running Out of Space for Bees?
- Barthes in China
- How the Modern Food Truck Came to Be
- On the First Five Years of Your Career as a Journalist
- My Right to Be Offended by Your Existence Trumps Your Right to Exist
- War by other means: Hamid Dabashi on Kristof
- The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview with Junot Díaz
- Literature in the Age of Oil
- US Court Abolves Union Carbide of Responsibility for Bhopal Tragedy
- Anxious Attachments
- Morsi, SCAF and the revolutionary left
- I Want to Eat One Million Oreos
- The most comprehensive Supreme Court Health Care roundup possible
- The Evil of Banality: Saramago’s Cain
- Why Do Serious Men Misunderstand This Book?
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg is pretty fucking hard core.
- Ordering Egypt's Chaos
- Tea Part Treason
- Chicago’s Time Lapse Segregation
- “We Are All Children of Algeria”
- "How am I supposed to go to a judge if the third party is gagged...?"
- Supreme Court Foot Race
- Anti-Capitalism and the Great Extinction
- Hollow Words and Dog Whistles
Corey Robin on Scalia: