Current Readings Around Town
| Title | Pub Date | Author | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| How the Collapse of Local News Is Causing a ‘National Crisis’ : The loss of local news coverage in much of the United States has frayed communities and left many Americans woefully uninformed, according to a new report. | 11/20/2019 | Julie Bosman | New York Times |
| Democrats Face Their Fears in Wisconsin : The Midwest shows that Trump’s vote could actually grow in 2020. | 10/23/2019 | Francis Wilkinson | Bloomberg |
| I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago : Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down | 09/25/2019 | James Risen | Intercept |
| New Study Finds 45,000 Deaths Annually Linked to Lack of Health Coverage : Uninsured, working-age Americans have 40 percent higher death risk than privately insured counterparts | 09/17/2019 | David Cecere | Harvard Gazette |
| How Democracy Dies, American-Style : Sharpies, auto emissions and the weaponization of policy | 09/09/2019 | Paul Krugman | New York Times |
| The Secret Files of the Master of Modern Republican Gerrymandering : | 09/06/2019 | David Daley | New Yorker |
| The Tea Party - Trump Decade : The Republican electoral sweep of 2010 set up a decade of anti-democratic destructiveness culminating in Donald Trump. But the tide’s about to turn. | 09/03/2019 | Stanley B. Greenberg | American Prospect |
| Opinion: Germany is fighting for its identity : On the 80th anniversary of the first battle of World War II, the right-wing populist AfD party scored its strongest-ever results in two states. Germany is now wrestling with itself, says DW's Editor-in-Chief Ines Pohl. | 09/01/2019 | Ines Pohl | Deutsche Welle |
| Uber and Lyft just lost another battle in California : Silicon Valley can’t seem to escape California’s crackdown on the gig economy. | 08/30/2019 | Alexia Fernández Campbell | Vox |
| How China’s repression playbook backfired in Hong Kong : Beijing tried to repress Hong Kong the way it represses the mainland. It backfired. | 08/29/2019 | Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian | Vox |
