Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Last week, with little fanfare, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York did something very few private companies would ever do to protect its users’ privacy: it quietly began to purge its interlibrary loan records. “This policy change is motivated by the idea that libraries should not keep more information about their…
Anyone wishing to understand why thousands of Western-born Muslims are leaving comfortable homes to fight with Isis would do well to watch Deeyah Khan’s powerful new film Jihad: A British Story. The award-winning filmmaker spent 18 months interviewing some of the founding fathers of jihad in the UK out of a “personal obsessive curiosity” to…
Bernie Sanders called for all rape accusations on college campuses to be handled through law enforcement, a controversial stance that puts him at odds with many advocates. Decrying rape and sexual assault on campuses as an “epidemic,” he said schools must not try to handle the issue internally. “Rape and assault is rape or assault…
Bill Cosby has been accused of sexually assaulting more than 50 women over a period of five decades, but so far only one case has resulted in criminal charges. There’s one big reason for this: the statute of limitations. Some of Cosby’s alleged victims were assaulted more than 40 years ago, but they only came…
The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., site of one of the deadliest mass killings last year. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) The mass killings that erupted last year seemed linked by little more than a hail of gunfire. Their locations became etched in public memory, the terror and bloodshed drawing our attention to a church…
article start Weeks before a Star Trek fan film was set to begin production, Paramount Pictures Corp. and CBS Studios are setting their phasers to stun, accusing the makers of the crowd-funded project of infringing on their interstellar intellectual property. Paramount and CBS have filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court in California against the…
Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Headquarters was occupied Saturday, Jan. 2, by a group of activists protesting the federal prosecution of two ranchers, slated to report to prison Monday on arson charges. (Reuters) As of Sunday afternoon, The Washington Post called them “occupiers.” The New York Times opted for “armed activists” and “militia men.” And the Associated…
On Saturday night, dozens of white, armed American militants stormed a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon seeking to take a “hard stand” against federal government “tyranny.” It’s a wild story. Here’s what you need to know. Sidebar The Oath Keeper Who Wants to Arm Black Lives Matter » Q: Where is this? A: The…
When I was around 10 years old, my father confronted a young man who was said to be “crazy.” The young man was always too quick to want to fight. A foul in a game of 21 was an insult to his honor. A cross word was cause for a duel, and you never knew…
The vast majority of domestic-violence victims who show signs of traumatic brain injury never receive a formal diagnosis. Credit Temet / Getty Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the first version of her story, Grace Costa says that, on the night after Christmas, in 2012, her ex-boyfriend broke into her house, hid behind her bedroom door, and…