What we read while Duke became a football school…
- This game story about a 1915 Auburn-Georgia football game is the greatest sports story–or, really, the greatest story about anything–that you will ever read.
- Jeremy Hammond, the “hacktivist” responsible for exposing the private intelligence firm Stratfor, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week. Here’s his statement. He joins fellow Anonymous-affiliated hacker Barrett Brown, already in prison for nonviolent crimes. Meanwhile, Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova exchanges letters with Slavoj Zizek about what it’s like to be a political prisoner in Russia.
- In other prison news, there are over 3,000 US prisoners facing life sentences for nonviolent crimes. Also, the problem of false confessions still hovers over police interrogations.
- David Mamet talks about the theater.
- Terry Eagleton reviews Morrissey’s autobiography.
- Is Elizabeth Warren the greatest threat to Hilary Clinton’s run for president? These ten clips show why she could be. Of course, speculating about 2016 now is pretty stupid.
- On the growth of the finance industry at the expense of the rest of the economy. And on what happened to American jobs.
- Occupy Wall Street has now cancelled over $15 million of consumer debt.
- A profile of David Miranda and his role in breaking the NSA stories, and how that makes him a “terrorist” apparently.
- UCLA has more NCAA championships than black male freshmen.
- Tom Haverford’s business ideas, ranked in terms of viability.
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