Monday Reads
A few great pieces to get your week started right.
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Happy Monday and welcome Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks.
From around the web:
Dating app cover-up: How Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps by Emily Elena Dugdale and Hanisha Harjani in the 19th
'She's just a crazy monster': What I've learned from following father's rights groups by Zawn Villines in Liberating Motherhood (Substack)
Will Academia Survive the Criminalization of Dissent? by Lucy Tobier in the Nation
Kendrick’s Super Bowl Performance Pulled Off a Double Whammy by Nadira Goffe in Slate
The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time by Christopher Bing and Annie Waldman in ProPublica
The Erasing of American Science by Katherine J. Wu in the Atlantic
From here and there:
What to Make of Nancy Mace’s Explosive Rape Allegations (Slate)
Happy reading!
xx Jill + Tamar
Great recommendations, as usual, to which I would add this: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/magazine/janet-malcolm-nice.html
I hit a paywall in the middle of the Slate article on Nancy Mace. I’m a paying subscriber — shouldn’t I be able to read articles you recommend without buying new subscriptions?