Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Obama brings firsts for black press
POLITICO TOP STORIES :Barack Obama’s election as president is prompting major changes in the nation’s black press, ushering in a series of firsts that editors say will reshape print, Internet, radio and television coverage aimed at African-American audiences... READ MORE
The Latest on Homicide Rates
FREAKONOMICS :Nothing grabs headlines like dire warnings about homicide trends. And there is no criminologist better at garnering headlines than James Alan Fox... READ MORE
Marty Peretz and the American political consensus on Israel
SALON :Opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian dispute are so entrenched that any single outbreak of violence is automatically evaluated through a pre-existing lens... READ MORE
Katrina's Hidden Race War
THE NATION :The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging through the heat... READ MORE
A Crime Against Society
THE NATION : Late one afternoon seven years ago, in the village of Kamanyola in eastern Congo, Fatuma Kayengela's husband sent their daughter and her cousin to the market to buy oil for the lamps... READ MORE
Should Gender Equality Extend to Drinking?
NEW YORK MAGAZINE : More women are drinking, and the women who drink are drinking more, in some cases matching their male peers. This is the kind of equality nobody was fighting for. READ MORE
Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns
LOS ANGELES TIMES :To friends in the protest movement, Lucy was an eager 20-something who attended their events and sent encouraging e-mails to support their causes. Only one thing seemed strange. ... READ MORE
Families offer shelter to victims of Congo war
GUARDIAN : Amid the brutality of Africa's most deadly and intractable conflict, refugees fleeing the fighting are being sheltered by families - in defiance of warring factions. Though desperately frightened themselves, they cannot find it in their hearts to turn people away. In the midst of horror, there is comfort in these simple acts of compassion... READ MORE
Chiropractor Sues Patient Over Negative Yelp Review
CONSUMERIST.COM :Chris Norberg left a negative review on Yelp after he got into a billing dispute with chiropractor Steven Biegel. Instead of quietly fuming like most people who get bad reviews on Yelp do... READ MORE
Britain is criticised for deporting HIV patients
GUARDIAN :The government is today, on World Aids Day, accused of double standards for permitting the deportation of people diagnosed in the UK with HIV to countries where they may not get the drugs they need to stay alive... READ MORE