Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As has been widely observed, we are living in a period of economic inequality that has not been seen since the first “gilded age” of the early 20th century. Not even the people who benefit from it think that it can last. The Swiss bank UBS is a world leader in managing the financial assets…
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with. That’s a theory from…
(Photo: Photick/shutterstock.com) In 1961, when a KGB counterintelligence officer showed up at a CIA station in Helsinki, Jeanne Vertefeuille held the keys to the office safe. “Responsibility for office funds was part of my normal administrative duties,” the former CIA officer writes in Circle of Treason, the book she co-authored in 2013, “and therefore I could…
It’s official: Fallout 4 is coming. Bethesda just put up a countdown timer leading up to the announcement, which will apparently take place tomorrow. It’s curious to see Bethesda announce the game before their E3 conference, which takes place on June 14, but it’s happening. Yesterday, a person familiar with goings-on at the company told…
When she decided to write the story of her sexual assault, the woman who goes by “Josie” said she “went into it with the expectation that someone would find out who I was.” The piece, published by Jezebel on May 21, explained the role she played in the Columbia University allegations against student Paul Nungesser…
Talk to someone who works at the Huffington Post these days and inevitably one word will keep popping up: “demoralized.” “I’ve never seen people so demoralized” is what a typical HuffPost employee usually says. A spike in despair makes a certain amount of sense. People are leaving the place in droves. (A huge portion of…
Photo Madhulika Sikka is by far the most prominent hire for Mic since its founding in 2011. Credit Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Peabody Awards Madhulika Sikka, the executive editor at NPR News, is leaving the organization for Mic, a news site aimed at the so-called millennial generation, the companies announced on Tuesday. Ms. Sikka will…
It was 10 o’clock on a Friday night in spring 2014 and I was sitting on the sofa in my one-bed Paris apartment when I received a message from a French terrorist based in Syria: “Salaam alaikum, sister. I see you watched my video. It’s gone viral – crazy! Are you Muslim? What do you…
On Caitlyn (and Blood Elf Paladins) (WoWWiki) When I was a teenager, I discovered the online message board. This was pre-Reddit, pre-Twitter days, and it’s still an enduring format. My main interests at the time were Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, video games and indie rock. So, pretty similar to now. The difference between boards and…
Did you know marriage equality is a mainstream thing these days? Polling released Monday shows that fully 56 percent of Americans are more than ready for the Supreme Court to do gay marriage to the entire country, and those numbers grow every single year. So you’d think a commercial featuring a gay Republican military doctor who really wants…