Ebola and Race, 40K Missing Voter Registrations, a Guide to Better Sleep
Here's what I'm reading up on today:
- President Obama may name a new czar to oversee the country's Ebola response. Meanwhile, a nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital detailed just how underprepared the staff was to handle the virus.
- And speaking of Ebola, here's a brief history of racist moral panic over disease.
- There's no end in sight for California's drought.
- 40,000 voter registration forms submitted by black and Latino would-be voters magically disappeared in Georgia.
- The San Francisco Giants will meet the Kansas City Royals in this year's World Series.
- The inmate population at Rikers Island is the lowest it's been in decades. So why have costs to run the prison risen so dramatically?
- Before gentrification, New York City was covered in graffiti -- Hua Hsa writes in the New Yorker about the 1981 documentary "Stations of the Elevated."
- Pharrell Williams has gone Kanye West on us.
- Junot Diaz writes about food.
- Sleep? You're doing it wrong.