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)

Weekly Reading (6/29/24)

Yesterday got away from me, so here we are on a Saturday!

One in five households in Gaza go whole days without food, draft UN report says (The Guardian)

Pilgrim Deaths in Mecca Put Spotlight on Underbelly of Hajj Industry (NYT)

Trump made Nazi ‘ovens’ joke in Jewish executives’ presence, ex-employee says (The Guardian)

'Spy mania': Why is Russia accusing its own physicists of treason? (BBC)

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” (ProPublica)

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing. (Yahoo! News)

The Meltdown at a Middle School in a Liberal Town (The New Yorker)

The horse wars of Stormy Daniels (WaPo)

Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold (NYT)

A behind-the-scenes tour of the Red Sox Dominican Republic Academy (The Athletic)

Dungeons & Dragons' New Core Rulebooks Want to Show, Not Tell (Gizmodo)

The Most Exciting Play in Baseball (FanGraphs)

Weekly Reading (6/21/24)

Oh this is such a relief: Supreme Court upholds federal ban on guns for domestic abusers (NPR)

‘Unprecedented scale’ of violations against children in Gaza, West Bank and Israel, UN report says (The Guardian)

In Western Ukraine, a Community Wrestles With Patriotism or Survival (NYT)

Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reporting (WaPo)

And an update! Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editor (WaPo)

How voters turned against Narendra Modi in his party’s heartland (The Guardian)

Campaign Puts Trump and the Spy Agencies on a Collision Course (NYT)

Clash of the Patriarchs (The Atlantic)

Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93 (NYT)

Mega drive-throughs explain everything wrong with American cities (Vox)

MLB’s Next Order of Business? Saving Pitchers. (The Ringer)

! The Yankees’ Candlelit Clubhouse May Be Their Secret Weapon (SI)

Oh, Queer Canada: A Reading List for Americans in Search of LGBTQ Canadian History (LitHub)

Bonus Links (6/19/24)

Before Juneteenth (The Atlantic)

Why Juneteenth didn’t actually end slavery in Texas (WaPo)

Compulsory Voting's American History (Harvard Law Review)

Be like Bryce Harper: 3 novels to read if you love romance and baseball (The Athletic)

I did not have this on my 2024 bingo card: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: A Grisly Theory and a Renewed Debate (NYT)

This River Is a Model (Places)

When your landlord bats leadoff: The insular, clannish world of baseball real estate (The Athletic)

The Lure of Divorce (The Cut)

Translating Philosophy: The Case of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (Words Without Borders)

The Japanese Sensei Bringing Baseball to Brazil (NYT)

A Manual for Adversity (City Journal)

C Is For… Cooky? An Investigation Into the Weird Alternate Spellings of Vintage Cookbooks (Racket)

Weekly Reading (6/14/24)

The Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Ruling Should Satisfy Nobody (Slate)

Ukraine’s Big Vulnerabilities: Ammunition, Soldiers and Air Defense (NYT)

Srebrenica To Rename Its Streets…Without Any Mention Of The Genocide (RFE/RL)

Could the U.S. force treatment on mentally ill people (again)? (NPR)

China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms (NYT)

In ‘Barons,’ Austin Frerick Takes on the Most Powerful Families in the Food System (Civil Eats)

The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife (The New Yorker)

16 Takes On the "Kushite Wife" Verse That Have Nothing To Do With White Supremacy (Life Is a Sacred Text)

‘You feel like your life’s over:’ The painful limbo of a baseball DFA (The Athletic)

Aeschylus' Prometheus Unbound: Rebuilding a Lost Masterpiece (Antigone)

Player's View: Consuming Baseball, Then and Now (FanGraphs)

Unsolvable Puzzles: Anna Shechtman on the Feminist Psychology Behind Crosswords (LitHub)

Links on Wednesday!

I've got a big backlog of bookmarks, so let's have some midweek links! These are mostly older things that I still think are interesting.

How Russian Spies Get Flipped or Expelled, as Told by a Spycatcher (VSquare)

These pansies are evolving to rely less on pollinators. Here’s why that may spell trouble (PBS)

The Case for Detracking (Culture Study)

The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn’t Exist (NYT)

The Great Pretenders (Toronto Life)

On the Black Death in Africa and Asia, and the interconnected Middle Ages (Going Medieval)

Inside the Raptors’ ‘Puzzlepalooza’: Trust, egos and trash-talk thanks to Wordle and more (The Athletic)

What Frantz Fanon and Ian Fleming Agreed On (The New Yorker)

Hex Marks the Spot (The Strong National Museum of Play)

The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid (The Hustle)

Language barriers, culture shock and isolation: How the NHL’s loneliest players cope (The Athletic)

The Crochet Coral Reef Keeps Spawning, Hyperbolically (NYT)