Jon Pareles
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Links: September 2017
Down the Breitbart Hole
This is a current in American life we’ve not yet fully processed, but history will record a preponderance of today’s right-wing leaders who emerged in the toniest quarters of the nation’s bluest states. Apart from the obvious examples of Andrew Breitbart and Steve Bannon, annealed in Hollywood, you can think of Julia Hahn, who attended Alex’s high school and is now working with Bannon in the White House, and Ben Shapiro,… See more →
Links: April 2016
Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?
“People are expecting more of body cameras than the technology will deliver,” Professor Stoughton said. “They expect it to be a broad solution for the problem of police-community relations, when in fact it’s just a tool, and like any tool, there’s a limited value to what it can do.”
Inside Operation Trump, the Most Unorthodox Campaign in Political History
Politics require some amount of cynicism and hubris. Trump… See more →
Les Paul, Guitar Innovator, Dies at 94
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