Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
.entry-header Jonathan Albright, a professor at Elon University in North Carolina, is an expert in data journalism who has worked for both Google and Yahoo. He specializes in media analytics and social networks, and he has created a network map or topology that describes the landscape of the fake-news ecosystem. Even if Facebook and Google…
Hide CM floating unit In her 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” Ivanka Trump employs an audacious strategy: she portrays all of her advantages as handicaps. Credit Photograph by Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux Barrier Status: ‘none’ Ivanka Trump’s 2009 self-help book, “The Trump Card,” opens with an unlikely sentence: “In…
The kinds of people, places and things Trump has insulted over time Charts show a 30-day moving average. Donald J. Trump’s tweets can be confounding for journalists and his political opponents. Many see them as a master class in diversion, shifting attention to minutiae – “Hamilton” and flag-burning, to name two recent examples – and…
Bloomberg/Getty FOUR MORE YEARS Donald Trump’s Carrier Victory Speech Shows We’re Stuck With the Crazy Candidate What was supposed to be a jobs speech turned into another torrent of self-congratulations, diversions, and shtick. Donald Trump won the presidency, but judging by his Thursday appearance to announce a deal with Carrier, the heating and air conditioning…
Hide CM floating unit Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About In the wake of the election, we must resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY LIVIO MANCINI / REDUX Barrier Status: ‘none’ America has always been aspirational to me….
With the election of Donald Trump, the latent threat of American authoritarianism—identified decades ago by German intellectuals—is on the verge of being realized. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY DAMON WINTER / THE NEW YORK TIMES / REDUX Barrier Status: ‘none’ Shortly after the Presidential election, a small piece of good news came over the wire: the Thomas Mann…
Could James Mattis, the former head of Central Command, have a moderating influence on the Trump Administration and its foreign policy? Credit Photograph by Alex Brandon / AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ In September, 2011, I met General James Mattis, then in charge of U.S. Central Command, at its headquarters, in Tampa, Florida. Central Command directs…
When it comes to Trump, loyalty is rewarded, but family is paramount. By Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images. With Donald Trump already exploring his options for working part-time, telecommuting from the comfort of his Trump Tower penthouse, a leadership vacuum has opened in Washington, into which all manner of carpetbaggers and coattail-riders are rushing in,…
.entry-header One of the themes that has emerged during the controversy over “fake news” and its role in the election of Donald Trump is the idea that Russian agents of various kinds helped hack the process by fueling this barrage of false news. But is that really true? In a recent story, the Washington Post…
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn routinely broke rules and security measures during his career with the Army, he told The New Yorker for a new profile. Flynn, Donald TrumpDonald TrumpPollsters go back to drawing board Trump taps KT McFarland for deputy national security adviser Lessig calls for electors to pick Clinton over Trump MORE‘s newly…