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Opinion | The Problems Democrats Don’t Like to SeeThe Democratic future isn’t going to look like the Democratic past. #Books #California #Chicago #Housing #Real Estate #Texas #US Politics 2025-06-08T03:00:12-0700 The New York Times Ezra Klein ($) 3,000 words Rated 2025-06-10T20:18:44-0700 - sethherr |
Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas 2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800 - sethherr |
How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' LifeMartha Wells created one of the most iconic characters in 21st-century science fiction: Murderbot, reluctant savior of humanity. Then she faced an existential threat of her own. #Books #Culture #Robots #Texas 2024-11-26T03:00:00-0800 WIRED Meghan Herbst 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-02T22:06:48-0800 - sethherr |
The Missionary in the KitchenI longed for purpose, meaning, the sense of being found. Then, one summer, I sort of was, Clare Sestanovich writes. #College #Religion 2024-06-01T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Clare Sestanovich 2,000 words Rated 2024-06-05T21:09:42-0700 - sethherr |
At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s ResignationProfessors at the University of Pennsylvania have begun to organize, fearing what they view as a plan by the billionaire Marc Rowan to upend academic freedom. #College 2024-01-29T09:20:18-0800 The New York Times Stephanie Saul ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-01-29T19:12:22-0800 - sethherr |
‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. CrusadeThe backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign. #College #Texas 2024-01-20T13:35:53-0800 The New York Times Nicholas Confessore ($) 7,000 words Rated 2024-01-22T18:03:33-0800 - sethherr |
Opinion | What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong About Antisemitic SpeechThe proper response to censorship is not more censorship. #Censorship #College #Harvard 2023-12-10T06:00:05-0800 The New York Times David French ($) 2,000 words Rated 2023-12-10T15:08:15-0800 - sethherr |
Opinion | Here’s How Houston Is Fighting Homelessness — and WinningHouston demonstrates what should be obvious: that a wealthy society doesn’t have to accept as inevitable throngs of people sleeping on sidewalks. #Dallas #Homelessness #Housing #Jobs #Mental Health #Real Estate #Urban Planning 2023-11-22T16:00:19-0800 The New York Times Nicholas Kristof, Rahim Fortune ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-11-24T08:15:09-0800 - sethherr |
The Harvard Professor and the BloggersWhen Francesca Gino, a rising academic star, was accused of falsifying data — about how to stop dishonesty — it didn’t just torch her career. It inflamed a crisis in behavioral science. #College #Lawsuit #Sociology 2023-09-30T02:01:18-0700 The New York Times Noam Scheiber ($) 4,000 words Rated 2023-10-05T16:38:46-0700 - sethherr |
The End of Progressive Elitism?The Ivy League’s theory of legitimacy is under attack from two directions. #Ivy League #Joe Biden 2023-08-12T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Reihan Salam ($) 3,000 words Rated 2023-08-13T11:56:40-0700 - sethherr |
Maybe the problem is that Harvard existsAn unhinged polemic #Ivy League 2023-08-10T09:01:32-0700 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2023-08-11T07:30:21-0700 - sethherr |
The Talk: Accused of PlagiarismIn an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “The Talk,” Darrin Bell illustrates a conversation with a professor at U.C. Berkeley who accused him, without evidence, of plagiarism. #College 2023-06-03T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Darrin Bell 200 words Rated 2023-06-04T07:23:39-0700 - sethherr |