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Trumps DOJ Has Frozen Police Reform Work. Advocates Fear More Abuse in Departments Across the Country.
by Topher Sanders
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. When news broke in January that the Trump Justice Department ...[Continue Reading]
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How post-9/11 Islamophobia sparked a Muslim political awakening in NYC
Arya Sundaram
Just a few days after the 9/11 attacks, then-16-year-old Faiza Ali was wearing a hijab at a Rite Aid near her home in Midwood, Brooklyn, when a screaming woman told her to leave. The woman pushed Ali ...[Continue Reading]
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A Democratic Blue Wave Could Hit Governors Races, Too
Ed Kilgore
Democrats have reason to hope that a blue wave in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trumps unpopularity, will help them flip the House and maybe even the Senate this year. National dynamics are ty ...[Continue Reading]
New York Magazine
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Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Francesca Mancino
Petras, the bookstore owner in Toronto, said that she was generally comfortable selling to undercover buyers, but that she would never sell them a book with interesting marginalia or an important pro ...[Continue Reading]
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The New Yorker
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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Jay Caspian Kang
Since then, the panic about tanking has waxed and waned. If there was a high-water mark, it was between 2013 and 2015, when Sam Hinkie, a former finance and management-consulting professional, took o ...[Continue Reading]
The New Yorker
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Write Things Down
Ben Thompson
It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philoso ...[Continue Reading]
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