- Excellent books from Center for Public Integrity, especially on tax havens.
- Traders weep: pay cut from $2 million to $1.5 million or so since 2007.
- Indian surveillance oversight is lacking.
- Wall Street silver linings.
- Academics oppose mass surveillance.
- Generation Flux needs new saints.
- Surveillance Valley.
- Time for wealth taxes, debt writeoffs, and millennial agenda.
- The free speech beloved by the Roberts Court: corporate message control.
- China crash imminent?
- Robotic harassment & frivolous lawsuits on the way.
- “Bienvenidos a la mercadería para consumo del turismo zapatista.”
- “University of Texas history professor Emilio Zamora says this is the biggest advance in Mexican-American studies education in a decade.”
- A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu
- Watch Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz Talk About Race and Writing
- "It is how we get to debates about labor with unfortunate allusions to slavery and racism that ignore and erase blackness."
- Atlas of Historical Geography of the US
- Colonial Psychiatry, Magic, and Religions: The Case of Mesmerism in British India
- “The master starts plucking hairs from the candidate’s eyebrow”
- “We thought we were doing God’s work…”
- To Be Well-Fed
- Cambodian security forces shoot striking garment
- “Across America, temporary work has become a mainstay of the economy…”
- Americans on Wrong Side of Pay Gap Run Out of Means to Cope
- "The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries"
- “We should, indeed, give this quantity of fucks”
- “North Carolina allegedly operated a Potemkin department”
- “There’s a reason that students protested and sat in to fight for the establishment of ethnic studies and women’s studies departments”
- “But this essay is not about speeches by eminent scholars”
- Wacky Weed, Tacky Racism: The HigherEd Dead End
- The Minimum Wage Fight Erupts
- “State economies lost $400 million in one week thanks to Congressional inaction”
NAFTA at 20 - Five Cultural Highlights of 2K13
- “You should be more like Malcolm Gladwell."
- 2013 was a horrorshow – and it can just Bake Off:
- A 'Narrowing Path' for China's Scholars
- Cambodia: Police Open Fire on Striking Garment Workers
- Canada: At least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools
- North Korea: Did Kim Jong Un Feed His Uncle to the Dogs?
- Maps and Monsters
- Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates
- Bitcoin Is an Expensive Way to Pay for Stuff
- The “middle class” myth: Here’s why wages are really so low today
- Confused about US policy in the Mid-East? Adam Shatz sorts it out for you.
- India: Why AAP is the new Congress
- Thessaloniki's Jewish history
- Swahili speakers in Oman
- Islamic calligraphy in China
- The Bangalore bakeries run by Iyengar Brahmins
- A Hindu temple where a copy of the Bible is worshipped
- A Saudi novel looking at state violence
- "Satan" written upside down in an Arabic manuscript
- Marg, Indian art and architecture journal founded in 1946
- The role of Indian textiles in the slave trade
- Baby Halder, domestic worker and bestselling author
- Saartjie Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus"
- Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria villa facing demolition
- The difficulties faced by Pashtun singers
- "[T]he whiter the school, the more diversity depicted in the brochures"
- Dude, where's the race in your class analysis of higher ed?
- Judge blocks stripping of CCSF accreditation
- Unplanned obsolescence
- How to break the stranglehold of academics on critical thinking
- "[W]hen pundits deride the humanities as irrelevant, it’s because we aren’t, and that poses a threat."
- Defending Zionism under the cloak of academic freedom
- LOL my thesis
- Where no Google buses go
- "Netflix possesses not several hundred genres, or even several thousand, but 76,897 unique ways to describe types of movies."
- A brief history of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation