Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns Truly, how could I lead this post with anything else? This has been a rough, rough week, and it didn’t need to be. A nationwide … Continue reading Outside Reading — There’s Nothing We Can’t Do, If We Do It Together edition
A Big-Screen Small Business Fights an Epic Battle for Life by Nicole Sperling It pains and angers me that the abject refusal of certain leaders to deal realistically with the global pandemic is leading to the likely destruction of the … Continue reading Outside Reading — Darkening Screens edition
Evicting the Landlord by Matthew Desmond In a compelling, deeply considered piece in The New York Times Magazine, Matthew Desmond uses the experience of one group of renters in Minneapolis — and the organization that worked tirelessly on their behalf … Continue reading Outside Reading — Too Damn High edition
America’s postal service is a rural lifeline—and it’s in jeopardy by Sarah Smarsh One of the most frustrating elements of the headlong scramble currently underway to demolish the U.S. Postal Service is that the effort is being led by the … Continue reading Outside Reading — Small Town, USA edition
Voter Fraud Is a Right-Wing Fiction by John Nichols It can’t be put much plainer — or more accurately — than it is in the headline to this article by John Nichols, published by The Nation. The cheap hand-wringing of … Continue reading Outside Reading — Postmarked Democracy edition
Wisconsin Is on the Brink of a Major Outbreak by Robinson Meyer This article is a week old as I post this, and it’s been weighing on me ever since. This is the state I was born in, this is … Continue reading Outside Reading — America’s COVIDland
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. About the only good … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Veeps
The dismal truth of our nation’s sad moment in time is that there was no time to properly mourn the death of a significant public figure, a U.S. icon who started her career underestimated by a chauvinistic legal profession and … Continue reading Outside Reading — The State May Not Bolt the Door to Equal Justice edition
Buying Myself Back by Emily Ratajkowski Although I haven’t conducted a definitive analysis of the responsive media coverage to Emily Ratajkowski’s piece, written for New York magazine, I’ll wager that most of it focuses on her convincing recounting of sexual … Continue reading Outside Reading — Model Writing edition
How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election—and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy by Charlotte Alter Admitting that there is no shortage of social-breakdown symptoms to fret about right now, I’m beginning to believe that the mainstreaming of nonsensical … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Brain Likes Crazy edition
