Graduate students protest changes to U.S. tax laws at the University of Southern California (via LA Times)
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)
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