#sundayread for June 30, 2019
By Wade Kwon
Photo: National Library of Sweden (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for June 30, 2019:
- Listened to “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic essays, including stellar reads “The Case for Reparations” and “My President Was Black.”
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2FDWIOw - Body Cameras and Tasers Rake in Billions for Axon, But They’re No Panacea for Police Violence
By Jonathan Ben-Menachem @jbenmenachem
(via @drrjkavanagh @diane_o_lucas) - Wasted Funds, Destroyed Property: How Alabama Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection
By @ConnorASheets
#alpolitics - Flashback: The fight for media attention
- Prescription Drugs May Cost More With Insurance than Without It
By @CharlesOrnstein and @Katie_Thomas
(RT @HDuggalMD) - A Failure to Heal
By @DrSidMukherjee
(via @LillyTrials) - Listened to “Steppenwolf” by Hermann Hesse: A mind trip that gave me pause. Maybe I need to re-read it to better grasp it.
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2RGvoEo - Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster
By Ben Taub
(RT @kikiochieng) - “You Can’t Say It Doesn’t Exist”: A Curator on the Art of Latin American Women from 1960 to ’85
By Elisa Wouk Almino @ewoukalmino
(via @18thStreetArts) - Flashback: Freedom
- The Day the Music Burned: What really happened in the 2008 Universal fire
By @JodyRosen - “The Mueller Report: Vol. I,” now available as a free streaming audiobook from @HooplaDigital.
- Book excerpt from “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal” by @EJeanCarroll
- The Battle Between Action and Belief
By @MargaretAtwood
(via @lcle)
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