Sunday Reading

Frank Pasquale:

• How to read a health news story; watch out for aspirin.
• Too big to fail, too complex to regulate.
• Brave nun, Piketty-style pope.
• Time for some private equity problems in Fort Lee & elsewhere.
• We're for local control till it helps the poor.
• The net neutrality Punch & Judy show.
• Fast food CEOs pig out.
• Theoclassical Economics.
• Modern Wealth: Lie to your customers, make a billion dollars, settle with toothless agency.
• Employers plot to dump sick workers on exchanges; law profs warned about this.
• “2% tax on fortunes over $4 million would bring in $500 billion annually in the U.S.”, but 0.01% might have to give up plane butlers so it's not a serious policy proposal. http://www.

Jacqui Shine:

• This is everything
• Lili on Louie
• On Kara Walker's Domino Sugar Factory sculpture
• Seven Parables on Craft
• What it's like to visit your mom in prison on Mother's Day
• Anne Helen Petersen on the banality of celebrity profiles

Two essays and two poems specially chosen for the Mother's Day bummer crowd:

• "Gender Trouble – in case anyone out there needs this advice – cannot help you bury your mother. I mean, not in an immediate sense."
• "Like a last rain, for a fleeting moment, everything she touched seemed to glow."
• "Energy Policy," a poem
• "How to be a Normal Family," a poem

Bint Battuta:

• The history of confetti
• In praise of the Royal Enfield Bullet
• An Anglo-Persian taxonomy of Indian religions
• The Making of a Munshi
• Nasir Al-Din Shah’s first visit to Europe in 1873
• European doctors in pre-colonial India
• British doctors in Saudi Arabia (1966)
• The revival of Tatar traditions in Poland
• A Jewish community in Uganda
• Buddhists in Egypt
• Arabic calligraphy in Japan
• Ramayan 3392 AD
• Zen & the art of eating the (Mysore) Masala Dosa
• Masala Dosa to Die For
• How salli became an integral part of Parsi cuisine
• Honoring Mother's Day, Sumerian Style
• Bangladesh's female freedom fighters
• Ghassan Kanafani on the 1936-39 Palestinian revolt
• Towards a Red Pakistan (1971)
• Asianism in India during the interwar years
• The world inside a Spanish globe
• Temporal culture in the Ottoman Empire
• On coding in Arabic
• Handel's finances
• The relationship between art and political action
• Twenty Libraries in Delhi You've Never Visited
• The Indian elections in photos

Mark Healey:

• Bruno Bauer: Frágil: El derrumbe de 2001, 13 años después
  
• María Sucarrat & Flavio Ripsardi: ¿Dónde está Múgica hoy? A 40 años del asesinato del cura villero
  
• Vino y leyes, publicidad y literatura: Miguel Brascó, aventurero serial

Kitabet:

• The Discriminatory Politics of Typesetting
• The Moons of Jupiter
• Enlisting Palestinian Christians
• Leviathan in the Lure of Mammon: Limits of Political Islam in Turkey
• That Person at Your Office
• Robot of Jihad? A Guide to Tipu’s Tiger
• The Shiver of the Real
• Chicago’s Last Tannery
• By Grace Alone
• #BringBackOurGirls and the Complexities of Attention
• Abandoned Dreams of Wind and Light
• Historical Maps in Minecraft
• A Brief History of Kurdish Music Recordings in Turkey
• “A cultural moment could not be more ill-timed or perfectly contrived to fuck up my inbox for ages to come.”
• Storm Readiness
• Suleiman Mourad: Riddles of the Book
• Are Iranians People of Color? 
• An Encounter with “Sky Watch” on a Block in Bed-Stuy
• "This man was the Coltrane of the clarinet, and he was dying of cancer unrecognised at 45.": RIP Selim Sesler, 1957-2014.

Kerim Friedman:

• I Probably Get It Wrong On Leslie Jones But I Tried
• After 35 years of toil by Chinese Linguist, Pashto-Chinese dictionary finally published
• Correlation != causation
• The CIA Aided Polio's Comeback–but Media Have Forgotten the Story
• Poor People’s Movements
• "Un Chien Andalou" (Fully Restored)
• Springtime for Modi
• The SSCI Syndrome in Taiwan’s Academia
• Open Letter — International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics
• How Vox erased the Nakba from history
• Chicago faculty object to their campus's Confucius Institute
• The New Synthetic Biology: Who Gains?
• Conservative Money Front Is Behind Princeton's "White Privilege" Guy
• 2012 piece by David Graeber on police using sexual assault against protestors
• Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution

Jacob Remes:

• Wild nature in cities
• Boston's student housing crisis (full series)
• How to organize for tenants' rights in a gentrifying neighborhood
• The Seattle model: city-wide collective bargaining (see also)
• Sex Work and the Limits of American Libertarianism
• What Monica Lewinsky taught children of the 90s
• Complicity With Excess
• Censoring political art from Japanese museums
• The Canadian war on experts
• What's next for Native politics in Canada?

Nathan Deuel:

• "On Wednesday, "Deep Springs" was among the most-discussed topics on Weibo, China's version of Twitter."
• "They shared something else, too: a sense of doom." Living in storage units in South Florida.
• "I watched as one young Lebanese reporter spoke rapidly in Arabic admission and to me it sounded like gibberish."
• "The best experience in an airport," he said, "is the one you don't remember."
• Children bombed in an Aleppo school put the US flag in their paintings. Syrians are still looking to the US for help
• "Earlier this year, Georgia approved a specialty license plate featuring the Confederate flag."
• "He hoped the location of this foot would be helpful to determining its origin."
• "His reply was hard to forget: 'Only over my dead body.' A year later, in April, he was assassinated."
• A 26-year-old SF man was fatally shot when  he entered the wrong apartment after a night out drinking.
• Last summer, the reclusive poet moved to a flat by the sea after selling, giving away or destroying her possessions