Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• That a Muslim ninth-grader was arrested for bringing his homemade digital clock to school? —Sue Kwong
• That the Tribune-owned LA Times may lose as many as 80 editorial jobs? —Tony Adler
• That WBEZ has canceled three of its culture podcasts? —Brianna Wellen
• That Facebook will begin testing a “dislike” button? —J.R. Jones
• About Freakin’ Awesome Karaoke Express (F.A.K.E.), “the Internet’s deception marketplace,” and how it’s not hard to give “a completely invented business a sterling online reputation”? —John Dunlevy
• Michael Eric Dyson on the new black intelligentsia? —Kate Schmidt
• More about Michael Derrick Hudson, the white male poet who adopted the pseudonym of a Chinese female in order to get his work published, and about being nonwhite in a creative writing workshop? —Aimee Levitt
• About how the writings of the late French semiotician Roland Barthes can explain the Donald Trump phenomenon? —Tal Rosenberg