Friday Roundup – December 1, 2017

 

Happy Friday (and welcome back to those of you in U.S. who had holiday break last week!). Here is a collection of what we’ve been reading this week.

 

Cut, Cut, Cut

• Overlooked passage in GOP tax bill would gouge gig economy workers (Salon)
• Trump’s Red Line Is Holding Up Tax Cuts (New York Times)
• It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life. (New York Times)
• Graduate students nationwide protest House tax bill, saying it could cost them thousands (LA Times)

 

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, New Jobs, Old Jobs

• Retail Jobs Don’t Need to Be Bad. Here’s Proof. (New York Times)
• When Algorithms Replace Post-Its: Artificial Intelligence Is Rewiring The Job Of A Lawyer (WBUR)
• Why ‘Made in America’ Is Stitched Into the Law, but Not the Uniforms (New York Times)

 

Gun Violence in America

• The wounds they carry (Washington Post)
• Immigrant Acquitted in Kathryn Steinle Case, Invoked by Trump (New York Times)

 

The Far Right

• The Making of an American Nazi (The Atlantic)
• Alt-right catches knight fever — but medieval scholars strike back (Salon)
• Nazi sympathizer profiled by the New York Times says he lost his job and — soon — his home (Washington Post)

 

On Campus

• When Public Scholarship Is a Crime (Inside Higher Ed)
• When Alumni Interviewers Screw Up, Things Get Weird (The Chronicle)
• How One College Has Set Out to Fix ‘a Culture of Blatant Sexual Harassment’ (The Chronicle)
• Texas State U. President Condemns Anti-Whiteness Student Op-Ed as ‘Racist’ (The Chronicle)