Catching up.

I took a break from the internet (mostly) over the past few weeks, and now I have returned with a overwhelmingly-large reading list that I plan to enjoy over the Christmas holidays. Of the two or three dozen pieces I have read from that list already, here are some of my favorites, so far:

• Looking For My Mother At The Bottom Of A Pot
• Mass Incarceration And Its Mystification: A Review Of “The 13th”.
• DIY urban planning is happening all over the country. Is it only for white people?
• Bookish Ways to Fight the Good Fight
• Why Is It So Hard to Make a Website for the Government?
• Hillary Clinton Is More Than a President
• The Privileged Immigrant
• Why So Many Liberal White Guys Just Can’t Admit The Election Was About Race, Explained
• Decades in the Making: Fidel Castro’s Obituary
• Keith Ellison’s radical plan to save the Democratic Party
• San Francisco’s Official Response to the Election of Trump
• TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time