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Art Show Captures Wrenching Effects of Closing a School

Jon Hurdle The New York Times
The exhibition, in a converted basement space at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in North Philadelphia, is a model of a classroom at Fairhill, a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school a mile away that closed at the end of the academic year in 2013. "reForm" captures the outpouring of protests, grief and tears in response to the closing of 31 publics schools in Philadelphia three years ago.

How California Prisoners Organized to End Indefinite Solitary Confinement

Gabrielle Cannon Mother Jones
In a landmark court settlement in California, most inmates currently serving time in solitary are expected to qualify for removal under the settlement agreement—including all who have served more than 10 years—and they will be transitioned out over the next year.

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex

Sam Kean American Scholar
Ernest Lawrence was a leading member of the scientific community that invented the atom bomb. He was also a pioneer in the growth of the military industrial complex. Michael Hiltzik tells this history in his new book. Sam Kean observes in this review that "there is much to admire and much to mourn" here, as we continue to live with the complex legacy of Big Science three quarters of a century after its emergence.

Yanis Varoufakis Pushes for Pan-European Network to Fight Austerity

Rosanna Ryan ABC Late Night Live
As far as Yanis Varoufakis is concerned, the Greek election campaign will be 'sad and fruitless'. He tells Late Night Live why he won't be running and why he is instead putting his energy into political action on a European level.

Human Wall Shields Guatemala Deputies Debating Stripping Leader's Immunity

Associated Press in Guatemala The Guardian
Guatemalan civilians who support the ousting of President Otto Pérez Molina have formed a wall of bodies to let lawmakers into Congress, protecting them from presidential loyalists trying to prevent a vote on withdrawing the leader’s immunity from prosecution in a corruption scandal. A commission of lawmakers has recommended that Pérez Molina’s immunity of office be withdrawn, and now the issue is before the full congress.