Sunday Reading

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• “The Romance and Sex Life of the Date.”
• On Suicide and suicide.
• Rebel Yell - Preserving Kurdish culture and identity through song in Anatolia 
• Poetry World Cup 2014
• Kaffir Culture” of Sri Lanka
• The Machinery of Dehumanization
• Fragility
• Maya at the Checkpoint
• The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History
• Skin Bleaching, Self-Hatred, and “Colonial Mentality”
• Armenia’s Bangladesh: Portrait of a Yerevan Suburb

Kerim Friedman:

• The Monster Within: Our Collective Complicity in Modi’s Silence
• the broken logic of getting rid of teacher tenure
• Taiwan’s Desperate Migrant Mothers
• Orwell in China: Big Brother in every bookshop
• Proud To Be

Jacob Remes:

• Comparing Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti
• Japan's "foreign technical internship" program becomes a labor trafficking scheme
• What's missing from Kim Young-ha's New York Times columns
• The invisibility of state constitutions
• Using local government to fight tar sand oil
• Jews and Christianity in American politics

ReclaimUC:

• Since the 1980s, university administrators have blamed tuition hikes on everything from utility bills and libraries to lazy professors and diversity
• Cutting jobs to fund university buildings
• As colleges go corporate, strategies for dealing with sexual assault focus on risk management, not justice
• K-12 tenure declared unconstitutional in California—could higher ed be next?
• The Vergara trial teachers were not "grossly ineffective"
• Silicon Valley mogul financed California lawsuit to end teacher tenure
• How Bill Gates pulled off the Common Core revolution
• "A US DOD research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies."
• The tragedy of the Maracanã stadium
• The racism beat
• Breasts: suffragists, suffering, and Cecily McMillan
• The wreck of the plaza
• "Proletarianization means less and less the creation of a laboring capacity and more and more the production of disposable people."
• Marcos, el subcomandante innecesario

Frank Pasquale:

• Google wasteful arms race.
• Brat-alytics & the question concerning Brat.
• Hospitalization death spiral.
• UN addresses death-by-algorithm.
• The Church of Stop-Shopping, as seen by Cointelpro 2.0.
• The case for licensing coders.
• "Privileged Abandonment."
• President Obama can raise the tax rate on hedgies--will he?
• An SEC Commissioner's lament.
• Iraq despair.
• Portrait of US inequality.

Jacqui Shine:

• Bringing black radicalism back into national conversations about race
• Move in the right direction
• Women's colleges are on the wrong side of history
• Ramona Quimby at forty
• Mass water shutoffs in Detroit
• Prison profiteers cashing in on Father's Day
• Ayn Rand, Cat Fancier
• (ARCHIVE) Highbrow, lowbrow, no-brow, 1949
• Detroit's Hair Wars
• Pouring one out for the Painer of Light