Ten Questions the Press Should Have Asked President Biden by Zeynep Tufekci It’s easy to pinpoint — and become enraged by — the failure of the White House press corps during the four years they utterly failed to properly confront … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Wrong Questions edition
The Year Has Taught Me a Lot About Nostalgia by Leslie Jamison Writing for The New York Times, as part of a set of reflections on one full year of living with the pandemic, Leslie Jamison pointedly addresses the problematic … Continue reading Outside Reading — Misty Watercolor Memories edition
Seattle’s Virus Success Shows What Could Have Been by Mike Baker “If the rest of the United States had kept pace with Seattle, the nation could have avoided more than 300,000 coronavirus deaths.” That sentence, from this piece of New … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Emerald Standard
Kelly Loeffler Just Lost Her WNBA Team to a Player She Refused to Meet by Dave Zirin Of the many humiliations suffered by Kelly Loeffler in recent months — all of which, I’m sure, she sloughed off thanks to insulation … Continue reading Outside Reading — Speak Up and Dribble edition
Birds Of Prey’s costumes changed the game for female superheroes by Caroline Siede Although I remain devoted to the Academy Awards as an important and reasonably effective — if hardly infallible — measure of what should be added to the ongoing … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn’s Wardrobe
Texas Could Have Kept the Lights On by Richard Parker Texas Republicans like to obsessively point out problems at the border, but I have a feeling they’ll remain silent about the state line–related emergency pictures above. The middle of the … Continue reading Outside Reading — Lone Star State of Disaster edition
Live Venues In Long Line Awaiting Aid by Stacy Cowley Reporting for The New York Times, Stacy Cowley details the dire situation faced by performance venues across the nation, largely shuttered since last spring and without reasonable prospects for a … Continue reading Outside Reading —Till It’s Gone edition
An “Angry Mob” On Reddit Is Pushing Up GameStop’s Stock Price And Pissing Off A Bunch Of Wall Street Firms by Amber Jamieson I haven’t been especially attentive to this week’s flashiest business story, the assault on the norms of … Continue reading Outside Reading —The Power to Play edition
What Will Be The Impact Of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” And Its Historically Massive Debut? by Chris DeVille Given that I’m aging into decrepitude at an admirable pace, I suppose it’s entirely appropriate that I have only the barest knowledge … Continue reading Outside Reading — Driver’s Education edition
This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. Thirty years ago this week, the United States went to war. After months of amassing a military … Continue reading Radio Days — Operation Desert Storm
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