Weekly Reading (7/27/24)

Hillary Clinton: How Kamala Harris Can Win and Make History (NYT gift link)

Adam Serwer: Why Some Republicans Can’t Resist Making Vile Attacks on Harris (The Atlantic)

On Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and a theory. On Sleepy Hollow, moving forward and Not Going Back (Burner Account by Maureen Ryan)

JD Vance Has a Bunch of Weird Views on Gender (Politico)

Record number of journalists killed in Pakistan already this year (The Guardian)

A Ragtag Resistance Sees the Tide Turning in a Forgotten War (NYT)

An Alabama manufacturer shows how to retain working moms: child care (NPR)

Crossbows and eerie silences – following Antarctic whales for climate change clues (BBC)

Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money (LitHub)

Players play as themselves in MLB video game, and some use it as a scouting tool (The Athletic)

What Is Noise? (The New Yorker)

‘The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook’ Was Ahead of Its Time (Eater)

Weekly Reading (7/19/24)

On Authoritarianism (Life Is a Sacred Text)

This piece from a few years ago has been going around this week for obvious reasons, and it's definitely worth your time: Hillbillies Need No Elegy (The Bitter Southerner)

About 90% of people in Gaza displaced since war began, says UN agency (The Guardian)

The schoolchildren being lured by rebels on TikTok (BBC)

War or No War, Ukrainians Aren’t Giving Up Their Coffee (NYT)

Canada's Polite Trumpism (Vox)

What George Kelly’s Mistrial Says About How We See the Border (The New Yorker)

How the pandemic gave power to superbugs (NPR)

Prestigious Medical Journal Ignored Nazi Atrocities, Historians Find (NYT)

Can Maine Lead the Way to a Future without Forever Chemicals? (Mother Jones)

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer (LitHub)

Oldest MLB player turns 100: Roomed with Yogi Berra, stymied Ted Williams (The Athletic)

Weekly Reading (7/12/24)

LGBT troops on Ukraine's front line fight homophobia at home (BBC)

How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War (The New Yorker)

Imagine texting this stuff in public at an institution with a history of antisemitism like Columbia: Columbia Removes Three Deans, Saying Texts Touched on ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ (NYT)

‘This is going to be a disaster’: inside the Tories’ chaotic election campaign (The Guardian)

The Koch Brothers Are Getting What They Wanted: The Supreme Court Is Gutting Environmental Protections (Slate)

This is huge: ‘Chemical recycling’: 15-minute reaction turns old clothes into useful molecules (Nature)

An incomplete list of broken heat records this year (PBS)

Another Red-Blue Divide: Money to Feed Kids in the Summer (NYT)

The Torah I Learned at ACT UP (Life Is a Sacred Text)

Which scientists get mentioned in the news? Mostly ones with Anglo names, says study (NPR)

The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to The Juniper Tree (LitHub)

Jessie Winker Is Up to Something (Baseball Prospectus)

Bonus Links (7/9/24)

Sexual Assault of Migrants in Panama Rises to Level Rarely Seen Outside War (NYT)

The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income (The MIT Press Reader)

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’ (TPM)

The Dragon Amid the Tigers (The American Scholar)

The strange, stressful, caught-in-between spring training of an MLB Rule 5 pick (The Athletic)

Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History (Smithsonian)

Endangered Greek dialect is ‘living bridge’ to ancient world, researchers say (The Guardian)

What Do Gardens and Murder Have in Common? (JSTOR)

The Displaced: The forced migration of the Indigenous Northern Sámi, and the aftermath (Places)

In Search of the Last Saola (Encia)

She’s Shaking Up Classical Music While Confronting Illness (NYT)

What’s Behind the Evolution of Neanderthal Portraits (Sapiens)

Weekly Reading (7/5/24)

The Labour landslide in the UK is very exciting and, as usual, I recommend the Guardian liveblog for keeping up with breaking news.

Russian Attacks Crush Factories and Way of Life in Ukrainian Villages (NYT)

Sudan’s warring factions using starvation as weapon, experts say (The Guardian)

Inside India's first heat stroke emergency room (BBC)

Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law Signals a Broader Christian Agenda (NYT)

A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction (NPR)

Uber, Lyft to pay Mass. drivers $32 minimum wage during rides under $175 million settlement (WBUR)

This Land Is My Land: Inside the Growing Movement to Fight Conservation (Mother Jones)

The Coming Birth-Control Revolution (The Atlantic)

Fact check: true. In Tarik Skubal, the Tigers have found a must-watch ace (The Athletic)

The "Epic Row" Over a New Epoch (The New Yorker)

In Words and Beyond Them: Jane Hirshfield on the Transformative Art of Translation (LitHub)

Controlling the Flow of Baseball (Baseball Prospectus)