1. How Do You Forgive a Murder?
TIME’s tremendous cover story returns to Charleston, S.C., to cover a deeper kind of forgiveness — the working out of life after losing loved ones.
2. 60 Minutes Overtime: Inside the Recording of ‘Hamilton’
Go backstage and into the recording studio with the cast of the hit Broadway show about the Founding Fathers, told through rap and hip-hop. “This is the first time I’ve felt particularly American — the last 8 months that I’ve been working on this,” says Daveed Diggs, who plays Thomas Jefferson.
3. ¡Justicia!
Sojourners' December cover story features Latina and Latino leaders in the church. Read here in Spanish and English — a first for the magazine.
4. Choose Your Own Adventure: A Conversation With Jennifer Egan and George Saunders
Two fiction writers known for their mind-bending imaginations discuss the business of envisioning the future.
5. Race and the Free Speech Diversion
Here’s New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb on the campus protests against racism happening this week: “The default for avoiding discussion of racism is to invoke a separate principle, one with which few would disagree in the abstract — free speech, respectful participation in class — as the counterpoint to the violation of principles relating to civil rights. This is victim-blaming with a software update.”
6. The Yale Student Protests Are the Campus PC Wars at Their Best
And Slate writer Nora Caplan-Bricker: “It’s a common criticism of today’s youth activists that they’re too busy demanding protection to prepare for a lifetime of fighting their own battles. But the social structures of campus life — and the violations of its norms — are in fact a university’s concern. Yale certainly bills itself as both a home to its students and an intellectual space. It’s fair — and useful — for students to question whether the university can succeed at being one when they believe it’s failing at the other.”
7. The Uncertain World of Crowdfunding Your Day in Court
Crowdfunding — once the province of people trying to raise money for things like trendy coffee makers, classroom supplies, or medical treatments — has become a tool for dealing with the criminal justice system. Can it work? (Should it?)
8. Huge Crowds Peacefully Protest in Kabul for Better Security in Wake of Killings
In the biggest civil demonstration in Kabul in years, thousands of Afghans — men and women, ethnic and sectarian minorities alike — came together to protest government inaction over the killing of seven Hazaras by an ISIS affiliate earlier this week.
9. Listen to This Organ in Croatia That Uses the Sea to Make Hauntingly Beautiful Music
‘Nuff said. Take a listen..
10. Aziz Ansari on Acting, Race, and Hollywood
“To anyone worried that it may be 'weird' to cast someone who looks a certain way to play a certain part, because it’s not what people are used to, I say: Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
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