The Week’s Best Reads
Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet
Amanda Hess, Pacific Standard
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“Ignore the barrage of violent threats and harassing messages that confront you online every day.” That’s what women are told. But these relentless messages are an assault on women’s careers, their psychological bandwidth, and their freedom to live online. We have been thinking about Internet harassment all wrong.
READ MORE The Strange Death of Mrs Jerry Lee Lewis
Gabriel Sherman, New York
When the head of Fox News moved to Garrison, New York, he bought a little newspaper and tried to instill his own brand of American values. Guess what happened next? An excerpt from the book that has the Fox empire in a panic.
READ MORE Sjón’s Literary Reykjavik
A Lonely Quest for the Facts on GMOs
Amy Harmon, The New York Times
READ MORE Are You Smarter Than a Mouse?
A Hawaii island council member wades through the science and the passions in the fight over genetically modified crops—and pays a heavy price for his commitment to the facts.
READ MORE She Hid Her Gun Where?
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect
New York’s Working Families Party has built the most effective political operation the American left has seen in decades. Can it duplicate its success in other states?
READ MORE How to Hide a Famine
Molly Ball, The Atlantic
READ MORE They’ve Always Been Watching You
What does it mean when America's top political wordsmith loses faith in our ability to be persuaded?
Marx is Dead, Long Live Marx’s Ideas
READ MORE How Michael Connelly Writes
John B. Judis, Dissent
Something called socialism may still come about, but it won’t follow the path Marx laid out.
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