Pour yourself some Arabica coffee, settle into your favorite easy chair, and sashay up to our longer form weekend reads:
• Why America’s middle class is lost: They took America to the moon. Then something went horribly wrong. (Washington Post)
• Hedge Fund Manager Finds Stalking Lions With Camera Harder Than Tracking Markets (Bloomberg)
• Deadliest US sniper’s greatest foe was tween playing Call of Duty (New York Post)
• Louisiana’s Moon Shot: The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong? (ProPublica)
• A History of the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program (NYT)
• License to Spy: There are thousands of cameras following you, anyone can watch, and it’s all legal (Back Channel)
• Chris Rock Talks to Frank Rich About Ferguson, Cosby, and What ‘Racial Progress’ Really Means (Vulture)
• Juan Cole: The Trial of Richard Bruce Cheney (Truth Dig)
• How 4 Mexican Immigrant Kids and Their Cheap Robot Beat MIT (Wired)
• About the Shark: How do we see ourselves in animals? (Poetry Foundation)
What are you reading?
