5LL #244 - Parking, Friends, Journalism, Democrats, Christina Sharpe

Make Parking Impossible
Max Holleran, The New Republic

Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.

How to Make Friends
Clare Coffey, The New Atlantis

Fighting the system may take a while. Why not go to a bar?

A Test of the News
Wesley Lowery, Columbia Journalism Review

The path to better journalism is clear: we must construct an industry that reflects the diversity of our nation, articulate and live by clear values, deploy diligent journalistic methods, and construct a financial model that can insulate those values and methods from the demands of capitalism.

Will Democrats Fight for Trans People?
Sarah Jones, New York

The party can’t cede an important civil-rights issue to conservatives.

The Woman Shaping a Generation of Black Thought
Jenna Wortham, The New York Times

Christina Sharpe is expanding the vocabulary of life in slavery’s long shadow — peeling back the meaning of familiar words and resurrecting neglected history.

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