Friday Roundup – November 10, 2017

 

Happy Friday from WIP! Here is a collection of what we’ve been reading this week.

 

Cut, Cut, Cut

• ‘I don’t feel wealthy’: The upper middle class is worried about paying for the tax overhaul (Washington Post)
• A Middle-Class Tax Cut? It Depends Who and Where You Are (New York Times)

 

Future of Work

• What The Data Tell Us About The Future Of Work In Massachusetts (WBUR)
• Final round of layoffs planned at Carrier plant Trump promised to save (Fox News)

 

Crime

• The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline (New York Times)
  • Editor’s Note: You can read Pat Sharkey’s original research article here in ASR.
• Mexico’s Record Violence Is a Crisis 20 Years in the Making (New York Times)
• The anatomy of mass shootings: a legacy of failure (The Guardian)

 

“Don’t Be Evil”

• Tech companies pushed for net neutrality. Now Sen. Al Franken wants to turn it on them. (Washington Post)
• Russian Money in Silicon Valley (The Atlantic)
• 3 Ways to Get More Women into Tech (The Chronicle)

 

The Environment

• America’s Wildest Place Is Open for Business (New York Times)
• In Lahore, Pakistan, Smog Has Become a ‘Fifth Season’ (New York Times)
• Donald Trump cannot halt US climate progress, former Obama adviser says (The Guardian)

 

On Campus

• A Contemporary Artist Is Helping Princeton Confront Its Ugly Past (The Atlantic)
• The New Campus Censors (The Chronicle)