What we read while Dwight Howard decided to become Egypt’s new President…
- More fallout at the NSA, as details of its worldwide spying apparatus continue to emerge in foreign countries and it finally faces backlash domestically. Meanwhile, the Agency’s policy of misinformation and dishonesty continues.
- Edward Snowden, on the other hand, has received asylum offers from three countries in Latin America and released a statement about his situation.
- Radley Balko on the rise of SWAT teams and the militarization of police forces.
- A history of the Voting Rights Act, after the Supreme Court’s pivotal ruling on it. Also, Erwin Chemerinsky weighs in on one of the Court’s less-discussed rulings.
- David Brooks thinks the Egyptian coup shows that Egyptians can’t handle democracy.
- An interesting critique of startup culture.
- On Richard Peaver and Larissa Volokhonsky, celebrities of the Russian translation world.
- A look back at The New Yorker when Robert Gottlieb replaced William Shawn.
- This week in oral histories: The March on Washington, in honor of its upcoming 50th anniversary.
- Is college worth it?
- On Albert Pujols.
- Ellie Kemper’s Del Close Marathon diary.