Khiara M. Bridges (BU): When Pregnancy is an Injury: Rape, Law, and Culture. From Vice, Grace Wyler is roadtripping with Rand Paul; and Alex Pasternack on how to build a secret Facebook. Hackers vs. suits; or why nerds become leakers: The same personality traits that make people good with computers also make them more likely to defy authority figures and social conventions (and more at Gawker). Josh Marshall on being skeptical of the notion that what Edward Snowden did is awesome just because leaking state secrets is always a heroic act. Doug Daniels on why the IRS should be more aggressive, not less. From The New Inquiry, Rob Horning on the primitive accumulation of cool. From Metanexus, William Grassie on how to be a competent outsider. Altai, identity, politics and history: Seth Wheeler interviews Wu Ming, the collective nom de plume for a band of four radical storytellers.
