Unit 3 - current events and supplemental readings

This one is required:

"How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind" - http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/




The rest of these are not required readings.  They're just really interesting and really good, and a lot of them are about stuff that's happening right now.  If you want to know more about any of the following topics, take a look.  I will continue adding to the bottom of this post as the unit goes on.


ADDED Oct. 14

Election media coverage
CNN's Trump problem - https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/786926956075855872


Prosecution of media figures
Amy Goodman in South Dakota - http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/taibbi-on-amy-goodman-arrest-for-covering-dakota-pipeline-story-w444754 and https://freedom.press/blog/2016/10/north-dakota-needs-immediately-drop-its-outrageous-charges-against-journalist-amy

James Risen - http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/james-risen-anonymous-source-government-battle


Trump and dog whistle politics
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/trump_s_outreach_to_black_voters_is_a_dog_whistle_for_racists.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/11/1580944/-Donald-Trump-calls-on-his-goons-to-stop-other-communities-from-stealing-the-election

http://forward.com/news/351984/at-florida-rally-trump-evokes-specter-of-international-banks-and-jews-cheer/

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trump-just-gave-an-anti-semitic-speech-dripping-with-hatred-and-the-internet-is-horrified/

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumps-assassination-dog-whistle-was-scarier-than-you-think-w433615

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/23/nothing-left-but-the-dog-whistle-trump-real-america-and-the-death-of-the-conservative-movement/

http://forward.com/opinion/348179/donald-trumps-7-meanest-dog-whistles-ranked-from-worst-to-not-quite-so-bad/


Political culture in America

"Are women people?" - http://www.salon.com/2016/10/13/are-women-people/

"Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working class Americans" - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans

"Finally.  Someone who thinks like me" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/finally-someone-who-thinks-like-me/2016/10/01/c9b6f334-7f68-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html

This whole series (Anxious In America) by the New York Times is fantastic:

"Torn Over Donald Trump and Cut Off by Culture Wars, Evangelicals Despair" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/us/donald-trump-christians-gay-marriage.html

"Feeling Let Down and Left Behind, With Little Hope for Better" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/feeling-let-down-and-left-behind-with-little-hope-for-better.html

"Underwater in the Las Vegas Desert, Years After the Housing Crash" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/las-vegas-2008-housing-crash.html

"Debt.  Terror.  Politics.  To Seattle Millenials, the Future Looks Scary" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/seattle-millennials-economy-student-debt-politics.html

"Trump a Working Class Hero?  A Blue-Collar Town Debates His Credentials" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/trump-a-working-class-hero-a-blue-collar-town-debates-his-credentials.html