Friday Roundup!
Every week, Jeremy and I will each submit our top three reads. Here’s what we’ve been delving into:
Jeremy’s Picks
- Rand Paul rises on the Senate floor in opposition to drone warfare and the targeting of US citizens without trial. C-SPAN
- Naomi Klein talks about something Sebastian and I discussed last Thursday — the policy environment of climate change has been hurt by Big Green’s insistence on carbon caps vs other routes to fix the problem. Salon
- Videos on the “sharing economy” — the government vs dinner parties! Reason
Sebastian’s Picks
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’ masterful case for reparations. I may have to become a card-carrying member of the TNC fan club. The Atlantic
- A post-mortem on the Cory Booker/Mark Zuckerberg reform of Newark schools. Big takeway — lots of consultants got PAID. The New Yorker
- This article about a bill currently before Congress called the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. As you can imagine, it has nothing to do with health or ending hunger. They cover some of the same territory as an earlier post on the SNAP program. Slate