Jairus Grove (Hawaii): Dirty Cosmologies: Annihilation, Fatigue, or Feral Reason; and A Recently Apocalyptic Tone in Everything: The Anthropocene or Peak Humanity? A day of global terror: Horrifying attacks strike France, Tunisia, and Kuwait. Joe Davidson on how the Confederate flag isn’t just offensive — it’s treasonous. Adam Serwer on why we’re finally taking down Confederate flags: The “Lost Cause” is finally losing. Jonathan Chait on the Confederate-flag backlash and the new American patriotism. Jessica Winer on a gun control debate: We’re not having one after Charleston, and we haven’t since Newtown. Of course Dylann Roof thinks Asians are racist — the media has been perpetrating that myth for years: Jeff Chang on the dark side of the “model minority” myth. Tony Tulathimutte on what Dylann Roof’s desire to ally with “very racist” Asians actually means. At Charleston newspaper the Post and Courier, covering the news, and choking back tears. What went wrong at one of the world’s eminent research institutions? Scott Sherman on the New York Public Library wars. Neil Irwin on how some men fake an 80-hour workweek, and why it matters: The professional world differs for men and women, and an implicit critique of a corporate culture that values long hours above all. Guess who doesn’t fit in at work: Lauren A. Rivera on how recruiters for top firms often define merit in their own image. Annie Lowrey in how companies crush women’s ambitions. #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite: Bobby Jindal’s identity causes a Twitter storm in India.
Jennifer Hopper (WC): Obamacare, the News Media, and the Politics of 21st-Century Presidential Communication. Five years after its passage, Obamacare stands as a monument to much that’s wrong with American politics — but it also, increasingly, is evidence of much that's right with it, too. Game over, Obamacare haters: The Supreme Court ruling is a victory for the government — and millions of newly insured Americans. King v. Burwell is the most perfect victory that the Obama administration could have achieved in this case — it not only preserves Obamacare today, it sharply limits the scope of future cases seeking to undermine the law. Nearly every Republican candidate refuses to accept that Obamacare is here to stay. Kaili Joy Gray on how every single GOP candidate has a cunning plan to murder Obamacare on Day One. Catherine Ho on how health care lobbyists worry GOP will now focus on Obamacare repeal (and more and more). Max Ehrenfreund on how Republicans still have an opening to take on Obamacare: A little-noticed provision of the law could keep the debate going for a long, long time. “Has Supreme Court Justice John Roberts been blackmailed or intimidated?”: Naomi Shavin on the most absurd Supreme Court conspiracy theory you’ll read today. Paul Campos on deconstructing the right-wing freakout over the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling. Josh Marshall on how John Roberts really is the best thing that ever happened to Republican jurisprudence and the conservative judicial movement. King v. Burwell was from its inception a shameful exercise, which illustrated the debasement of the contemporary conservative legal movement.
