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The New York Times
The Announcements Were Once Déclassé. Then Came the Astors
It was the marriage of a Schermerhorn to an Astor that changed everything.
Area Chicago
Trying to Make the Personal Political
a reprint of Consciousness-Raising Guidelines, a text from 1975 by the Women's Action Alliance. It is expanded with a new forward by Mariame Kaba and an afterword by Jacqui Shine.
atlasobscura.com
America Almost Had a Disney Theme Park with a Slavery Section ...
Inside Disney's America, the doomed '90s project that almost sunk the company.
Vulture
The Miracle of Hair on The People v. O.J. Simpson: Brow Toupees, Bad Beard Trims, and ‘the World’s Tiniest Wig’
Everything you didn't even know you wanted to know.
Pacific Standard
Inside the Police-Industrial Complex
At the 2015 convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, a view of the public-private partnerships that have come to shape modern policing—and to complicate questions of reform.
Pacific Standard
The Evolving State of American Policing
For a century, the annual conference of police chiefs has sounded the same complaints. Is it time to de-couple the war on poverty from the war on crime?
LA Review of Books
The Devil in the Shape of a Preschool Teacher
A review of Richard Beck's WE BELIEVE THE CHILDREN for the L.A. Review of Books.
Mens Journal
Top Ten Television of 2015
If the enormous list of contenders for our Top Ten is any indication, 2015 was a hell of a year for television and for how we watch it: both Netflix and Amazon have turned out some of the year's best shows and challenged the existing production system.
newrepublic.com
The Long, Strange History of ABC Family
A channel changes its name, but can’t get rid of its religious roots
Mens Journal
Dang, That's Some Good Whitefish Salad
It's not your grandma's whitefish salad—but she probably wouldn't mind.
LA Review of Books
Culture War: What Is It Good For?
A review of Andrew Hartman's "A War for the Soul of America."