Los Angeles so often feels less like a city of the present than a kingdom from the future, trying to tell us all something about what’s coming next. Go an hour in any direction from Dodger Stadium and it’s har…
Our history is young, and we have not forgotten it. For decades, the police have tormented our communities. They enforced laws about how we dressed, where we congregated and whom we had sex with. They beat us, blackmailed…
How Texas’s voting restrictions—which could still pass—are designed to disproportionately affect Black and Latino voters.
↩︎ The Washington Post
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It wasn’t only Tulsa: a look at around 50 racially charged massacres that occurred in America between the Civil War and the 1940s.
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“You’re competing with every other person who has ever made music to get a share of one pot.” On the economics of music streaming.
↩︎ The New Republic…
New York’s “Vessel” to reopen—after three people killed themselves there—with measures to reduce risk, though not higher barriers.
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A fossil in Germany shows a shark eating a squid eating a lobster.
↩︎ Gizmodo
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“There’s family who will support you, outside society who think rap is wrong, and radical Islamists who think this is something against Islam. All we can do as a family is be supportive.”
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Dan Johnson: The phrase “set it and forget it,” from a ’90s informercial, is a study in (or mantra for) American ignorance.
↩︎ The San Francisco Chron…