DISPATCHES
Minneapolis: The Derek Chauvin Trial Begins (Reason)
Minneapolis: “We Have Followed Proper Channels and They’re Not Working” (Reason)
Minneapolis: The Changing Faces of George Floyd Square (Reason)
WHAT THE H**L IS GOING ON AT THE NYT?
Words as Weapons: How Activist Journalists are Changing the New York Times (The Dispatch)
The New York Times Succumbed to Another Mob. Journalism Is Unrecognizable (Newsweek)
Paloma Media YouTube channel (video) and Apple podcasts (audio):
Episode 1: What the Hell is Going on at the NYT? (video) (audio)
Episode 2: Donald McNeil Jr. and the Meltdown at the NYT (video) (audio)
Episode 3: Enemies, Enemies Everywhere (video) (audio)
Episode 4: With Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon (video) (audio)
Kids and Cowards: What Really Happened to Donald McNeil at the New York Times (Newsweek)
DISPATCHES FROM PORTLAND
Destruction and Hope in Portland (Persuasion)
Can Portland Recover from a Year of Lockdowns and Nihilism? (The Dispatch)
The Dream of the ‘90s Died in Portland: Once and up-and-coming city, Portland was destroyed from within by radical activism and political ineptitude (Reason)
Even With a Biden Win, Portland Protesters Vow to Keep Smashing Stuff (Reason)
The Kids Are All Right (Reason)
The Conservative Trans Women Who Went Undercover With Antifa in Portland (Reason)
Two Lawyers Walk Into an Anarchistic Jurisdiction (Reason)
'You're Not Allowed To Film': The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland (Reason)
When a Killing Becomes a Rorschach Test: Dispatch From Portland (Reason)
When You Say Yes to Hate: Dispatch from Portland (Reason)
A Night of Aimlessness, Surrounded by Flames: Dispatch From Portland (Reason)
A Quiet Night in Portland (Reason)
Federal Cops Are Leaving Portland. But Will the Standoff Really End? (Reason)
The Morning Crew (Reason)
The Fire Next Time (Reason)
What It’s Like to Work in the Portland Jail During the George Floyd Protests (Reason)
A Distinct Lack of Crowbars and Cops (Reason)
CULTURE
Chinatown Stayed Vibrant Even as So Much of NYC Turned into “Ghost Town” (NY Post)
The Shiv in the Hand of Kindness: After the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, a story of compassion in the age of Twitter mobs (ArcDigi)
Proud Boys and Antifa Playact Protest in Portland (Reason)
Portlandization: It Can Happen to a Place Near You (Tablet Magazine)
The Lightening: What happens when you find out the mother you never met has thrown siblings you didn’t know you had off a bridge — and there’s a book coming out about it? (Medium.com)
The Complex Identity Politics of Elizabeth Warren’s Native Heritage (Reason.com)
Anatomy of a Child Pornographer: What happens when adults catch teenagers "sexting" photos of each other? The death of common sense (Reason Magazine)
Why Not to Write About a Supreme Master of the Universe: An afternoon with the followers of Ching Hai (LA Weekly)
Sanctuary: Days and Nights at the King Edward Saloon (LA Weekly)
There Goes the Neighborhood: Race, real estate, and gentrification on my block (Willamette Week)
Us and Them: The code of the cop bar, RAMPART division. (LA Weekly)
The Great Alaskan Morel Rush: Guns, bears, cash in the woods. (Los Angeles Times Magazine)
FAME
Asia Argento’s Time is Up (Reason.com)
No Exit Plan: The Lies and Follies of Laura Albert, aka, JT Leroy. (LA Weekly)
Jena at 15: A Childhood in Hollywood (LA Weekly)
40 Bucks and a Dream: The lives of a Hollywood Motel (LA Weekly)
HEARTBREAK
Modern Love: Taking My Ex Back In (for His Own Good) (New York Times)
Grief's Gravity: When Jessica Santillan died of a botched heart-lung transplant, Nancy Rommelmann was nearly swallowed by the story. (LA Weekly)
Who She Took With Her: The husband, the son, the boyfriend... a drunk's tale (LA Weekly)
Crying and Digging: Reclaiming the realities and rituals of death (Los Angeles Times Magazine)
CRIME
Get Out of My Bedroom, Andrew Cuomo! (Tablet)
The Monstrousness of Empathy: When private tragedy becomes public property (Oregon Humanities)
Sacrificing Rebecca: Laurie Recht loved her 14-year-old daughter to death. Literally. (Willamette Week)