what i’m reading and watching
The Players’ Tribune is a fascinating publication and outlet for athletes to author pieces about competition and life. Many are surprisingly insightful and well-written.
In this piece, Detroit Lions linebacker Deandre Levy gives us a view into football culture, and what it means in regards to rape and sexual assault.
These are insults that are so commonplace that we have all encountered them at some point, be it on a playing field, in…www.theplayerstribune.com
SpaceX made news by partnering with NASA to land one of their Dragon capsules on the surface of Mars sometime in 2018. Which is seriously cool.
Its name will be "Red Dragon." And if the latest partnership between SpaceX and NASA works out, the privately funded…www.npr.org
President Obama has been giving extended time to journalists, perhaps to help shape his legacy and the conversation around the current presidential election.
In The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg outlines the non-doctrine of Obama’s foreign policy
The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America's role in the world.www.theatlantic.com
In the New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin details Obama’s economic policies — and Americans’ misperceptions — since the 2008 financial crisis. (Side note: Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail was an excellent insider portrayal of the lead-up and response to the crisis.)
Obama, though, was unable or unwilling to rhetorically underscore the severity of the crisis as it unfolded, so perhaps…www.nytimes.com
Finally, Barack Obama is the Cool President; he sidled into the press room to answer questions and crack jokes with student journalists this week (at about the 00:55:00 mark).