Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Four years after the Arab Spring began, the new Middle East looks more and more like the old one—but worse. For decades, the bleak choice in the region was between dictators such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and the Islamist militancy that they always invoked when pressured by the West to liberalize. The uprisings of 2011—often spurred by…
Thousands of Black Lives Mattered in Nigeria, but the World Didn’t Pay Attention As the world mourns for Paris, we must also decry Boko Haram’s violence. Local residents stand by the wreckage of a car that was blown up by suspected Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri on March 25, 2014,…
Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters As many as a million people, joined by 40 world leaders, filled the streets of Paris on Sunday in solidarity after two separate terrorist attacks claimed 17 innocent lives last week. The day before, more than 3,000 miles to the south, a girl believed to be around 10 approached the entrance to a…
The Colorado Springs offices of the NAACP were attacked Tuesday morning in what’s almost certainly an attempt to inflict fear and terror upon black Americans and those who support them. According to reports, an improvised explosive device was detonated on the side of the NAACP’s building, and the FBI confirmed that it was a deliberate…
About 700,000 people take part in marches across France following three days of deadly attacks in the Paris area that took the lives of 17 people. BBC News – France attacks: Huge marches for victims.
What we know: * The report of the hostage crisis in Vincennes happened after the situation in Dammartin was first reported.* The hostage crisis took place at a Jewish kosher deli, Kosher Deli, in Porte de Vincenne. Its address is 23 Cours de Vincenne.* The ring road (périphérique), a vital road in Paris, Metro stations…
Another month, another attempt by the BLS to mask the collapse in the US labor force with a goalseeked seasonally-adjusted surge in waiter, bartender and other low-paying jobs. Case in point: after a modest rebound by 0.1% in November, the labor participation rate just slid once more, dropping to 62.7%, or the lowest print since…
President Obama said in a video released Thursday that he would propose a plan to make the first two years of community college free during a speech in Tennessee scheduled for Friday. (The White House/YouTube) President Obama on Friday will propose making community college tuition-free for “responsible students,” launching what officials described as an ambitious…
What’s in your news diet? Sure, we can name the sites, papers, and stations that pepper us with news through the day and week. But we can’t easily sum up what we’ve read and how much of it, or really get an accurate sense of the balance between serious Times or Guardian fare versus the…
A tribute at the Place de la Republique, in Paris, to victims killed during the attack at Charlie Hebdo. Credit Photograph by Aurelien Meunier/Getty The murders today in Paris are not a result of France’s failure to assimilate two generations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They’re not about French military action against the…