Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
It’s dueling MLK quote season again. Both sides are making accusations of selective reading at the other, and given that many people on either side have probably read very little of his words that don’t appear on a poster, both sets of accusations are perennially accurate. We might make a policy of saying that if…
BALTIMORE—Calling it an emergency measure designed to ensure public safety and order, Baltimore officials held a press conference Wednesday urging all residents to stay indoors until the natural evolution of social progress takes shape over the next century. “Given the ongoing situation in our city, we ask that everyone remain within their homes for the…
A Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip Doonesbury’s Charlie Hebdo Problem — The Nib — Medium.
The revolution WILL be given permission Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History — The Nib — Medium.
What if a stalker had an army? Zoe Quinn’s ex-boyfriend was obsessed with destroying her reputation—and thousands of online strangers were eager to help. The first thing Eron Gjoni said after sitting down across from me at Veggie Galaxy in December was that he would probably violate his gag order if he talked to me….
Many years ago I pitched a magazine editor on a story about Bernie Sanders, then a congressman from Vermont, who’d agreed to something extraordinary – he agreed to let me, a reporter, stick next to him without restrictions over the course of a month in congress. Sidebar Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton’s Fake Populism Is…
On Monday, April 27, 2015, ABC News captured video purporting to show an African-American mother disciplining her son for participating in unrest that erupted in Baltimore following the killing of Freddie Gray. As the story goes, the mother saw her son on television throwing rocks at police and subsequently went to retrieve him. In the video,…
BALTIMORE—An unpredictable, ad hoc collaboration between gang members and police officers tamped down civil unrest in the place where protesters had gathered to mourn the late Freddie Gray. By midnight, two hours after the start of a controversial curfew, a city that had seen days of brawls, looting and possible arson was so quiet that…
In March, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hulu, Amazon, and Yahoo were tangled up in a massive bidding war for the rights to stream every episode of Seinfeld. In many ways the show has been the Holy Grail for streaming services because of its success in syndication and on DVD, as well as its…
Emma Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts student at Columbia University, carries a mattress on campus Sept. 5, 2014, in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Last fall, Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz began carrying a mattress around campus — a protest, she said, of how the school handled her sexual assault complaint against a fellow student….