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seven in ten Black men who didn’t finish high school will have spent a portion of their life in a cage.
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
The Bloomberg-as-social-network analysis is a useful one because without it, it’s hard to see how Bloomberg has survived:
Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg
Essentialists are quick to use stereotypes to categorize vast swaths of people.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Americans cared about money. And power. And government.
James McBride • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
Center for Civic Media,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Power politics
Mary Beard • SPQR
now it’s clear that all the important trends began in the seventies. It was the end of postwar, middle-class, bipartisan America.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Black Lives Matter