Paul Mason | BBC | 6 June 2012 Trouble with banks and a real estate bust is only the beginning. Mason takes the temperature of Spain, a country now in the grip of a complex political-economic crisis with the potential to shatter the eurozone Comments Cory Doctorow | MIT Tech Review | 6 June 2012 "The users and the analytics people are in a shooting war, but only the analytics people are armed. There's a business opportunity for a company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire" Comments Joshua Rothman | Boston Globe | 3 June 2012 "A vote against compromise might feel like a vote for purity, for boldness—but it’s a vote for the status quo. In a democracy where people disagree on fundamental questions, no-compromise politicians create logjams, not progress" Comments David Simon, Ed Burns et al | Maxim | 30 May 2012 In the mid-1980s David Simon, a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun, met Ed Burns, a homicide detective in the midst of a case involving a local drug kingpin and folk hero. A seed was planted and an unlikely project was born Comments Peter Wilby | New Statesman | 30 May 2012 Huge feature on The Guardian newspaper, and its editor Alan Rusbridger. Traditional advertising revenues have collapsed, losses now exceed £30m. The pressure is on. Can Rusbridger turn it around? Comments Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston | Awl | 1 June 2012 Surpisingly open email conversation with four trappist monks. Turns out they don't take a vow of silence, can talk when necessary. "Cultivating silence in a group is hard and a discipline we have to commit to over and over again" Comments | 
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