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Gerrymandering, RIP?

Miles Rapoport The American Prospect
Republicans’ hold on Congress and statehouses could be more vulnerable than once thought.

Friday Nite Videos | December 8, 2017

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We Know About Bad Books, But Are There Bad Readers, Too?

Merve Emre Boston Review
The author queries the existence of bad readers, linking causes not to illiteracy or injuries of class or the diffusion of mass culture, but to a Cold War literary trend sporting "an abundance of paraliterary works," such as memoirs, diaries, biographies, diplomatic studies, and feature reports as primers for engaging with literary texts as seemingly historically accurate yet stressing outcomes and expectations consonant with systemic social ends.