Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Choosing a running mate is one of the first major decisions that a presidential nominee makes; it’s an early window into his or her personality, priorities and campaign strategy. It’s … important, and the media will spend endless hours discussing the pros and cons of each potential pick. But the press typically overestimates the electoral…
San Francisco voters approved Prop. C, a ballot measure that will more than double the city’s affordable housing requirement for new housing projects. Housing developers and their supporters are now bracing for how to make future developments financially feasible in a city where building housing is already costly and takes several years. Enlarge Residents wait…
I’m not going to get too far into the weeds of this thing, but here’s the basic deets: out of the current $420 million credit for film and TV productions in New York State, the amendment would allot less than 1 percent ($5 million) to be used as a credit for productions that hire qualified…
An Open Letter to Dan Turner, Father of #BrockTurner. I’m writing this letter because your son’s victim’s words have provided me with a voice I’ve been incapable of finding for twenty years. And she’s said plenty through her courageous, eloquent speech to your son. She shouldn’t also have to defend herself against your perspective, as…
One of the great and terrible parts of being a journalist in the 21st century is easy access to any story I’ve contributed to the internet. This made it especially easy to revisit an essay I wrote as a 23-year-old newly minted college grad, working as an editorial assistant at Newsweek magazine. It was a…
Start Article Post Content Hollywood is no stranger to stereotype casting. “Scandal’s” Kerry Washington and “Master of None” star and executive producer Aziz Ansari have come face to face with this reality on multiple occasions throughout their careers. The actors swapped nightmare stories during a sit-down for Variety‘s fourth season of “Actors on Actors.” “Before ‘Scandal,’ I was actually…
Bernie Sanders isn’t just winning the youth vote — he’s crushing it. A new analysis from Tufts University shows that Sanders has now surpassed Barack Obama’s 2008 Democratic primary totals among young people in the 25 states where we can draw a comparison — whether you count by raw vote total or percentage of the…
Raveena Aulakh was an award-winning global environment reporter. (Richard Lautens / Toronto Star) | Order this photo The union that represents Toronto Star newsroom employees called Tuesday for an independent investigation into the death of a Star reporter who recently took her own life. By all reports of those closest to her, the last thing…
A year and a half ago, Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton had ample reason to be optimistic about the future of the company that he had founded more than 12 years earlier. The company’s revenue had grown from about $5.3 million in 2006 to $43.8 million in 2014. It was consistently profitable, with a 2014…
A few months ago, the Internet briefly became obsessed with the ‘Headless Women of Hollywood’ Tumblr. Started in April by comedian Marcia Belsky, the blog collects movie posters that show women’s bodies, but not their heads. (As it turns out, there are a lot.) Having apparently never noticed this before, media outlets from the New…