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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
It’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
... See moreIn my final year, I decided to take on the biggest issue of all for Yale’s men: the 268-year-old parietal rules that forbade women staying overnight in a dorm room. I was dating a woman at a local college, so for me, it was as much a personal as a community issue.
The conventional approach would have been to set up a meeting with a university
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
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While, during the next few minutes, the news was trickling in from Dallas, one decision was made quickly: Keith Wheeler’s proposed second article on Lyndon Johnson would not run in the next issue of the magazine: there was obviously going to be so much other news that there would be no room for it. About a week later, William Lambert went in to see
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
I’m trying to learn more about San Francisco politics, and attended swearing-in ceremonies for two supervisors: Jackie Fielder of District 9 (Mission, Bernal, Portola) and Bilaal Mahmood of District 5 (Hayes, Tenderloin, Japantown). Fielder is a DSA member and longtime activist; Mahmood was a former SaaS founder turned... See more
Jasmine Sun • spy mania!
One was that he was a politician. In capitol corridors, Moses may have been a handicap to the Governor, but in voting booths the parks that he built were a priceless asset to Smith.