(Note: Late post, but an important one nonetheless)

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A lot happened during this week, so I’ve split the readings into categories. I think they each contain vital information and knowledge critical to today’s discourse, but there are a few in particular that really stuck out to me, and I hope to write about them in a separate post soon.

Section I: The 2016 U.S. Election Cycle

• The Precarious Masculinity of 2016 Voters by Olga Khazan (The Atlantic)
• Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans by Sarah Smarsh (The Guardian)
• Us vs Them: The birth of populism by John B Ludis (The Guardian)
• How Donald Trump Inspired This Muslim-American Woman to Start a PAC by Valentina Zarya (Fortune)

Section II: Civil Rights, Racial (In)justice, Social (In)justice

• What people did when an Ivy League professor wrote faculty of color don’t get jobs because ‘we don’t want them’ by Marybeth Gasman (The Washington Post)
• Jack Greenberg, civil rights lawyer who helped argue Brown v. Board, dies at 91 by Gary Gately (The Washington Post)
• That Is Not My Jesus by Travis Eades (The Huffington Post)

Section III: The Middle East

• A French Recruit Tells ‘Why I Left ISIS’ by Michael Weiss (The Daily Beast)
• Hagai El-Ad’s address in a special discussion about settlements at the United Nations Security Council  by Hagai El-Ad (B’Tselem)
• Putin, Syria, and Why Moscow Has Gone War-Crazy by Joshua Yaffa (The New Yorker)
• UNESCO’s mistake in Jerusalem by Dahlia Scheindlin (972 Mag)
• Grounded down by savagery – the agony of Aleppo by Martin Chulov (The Guardian)
• America’s Moral Duty in Yemen by the New York Times Editorial Board (The New York Times)

Section IV: General History

• The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere by Ishaan Tharoor (The Washington Post)