Simon Caney (Oxford): Political Institutions for the Future: A Five-Fold Package. Raul Castro is stepping down — but he’s leaving behind a complicated legacy and an unclear future. Cuban communism is at its reform-or-die moment: The country’s first non-Castro president in over 50 years has only one path to legitimacy. Democrats have great female presidential candidates — they need to avoid the victim trap. And the newest member of Trump’s fan club is Kanye West. Michael Harriot on Kanye West, Candace Owens and the conservative sunken place. What’s going on in Armenia? Leader resigns following violent protests.
Being black in public: When you’re black in America, you’re either seen as a problem or not seen at all. What white people can learn from the Starbucks arrests. Starbucks won’t have any idea whether its diversity training works. Steven Thrasher on a problem Starbucks can’t train away. Starbucks’ bias training has Right raging at the real racists.
