Perspective View from a series of Mines and Factories, c. 1905, by Thomas Defoiss. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Leni and Peter May.
• How the New Deal created the modern teenager. (Jacobin)
• The Paraguay Scheme: Israel’s secret attempt to deport thousands of Palestinians after occupying the Gaza strip. (972)
• Howard Stern on JFK, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. (Rolling Stone)
• The long history of the war on Iran. (The Nation)
• “The Grand Old Illusion of ‘Ethical’ Capitalism.”
• On groundbreaking artworks by women that were originally credited to men. (BBC)
• “The way the U.S. Latino community is rallying around the women who were raped and abused by Chavez should serve as an example to the nation for how to handle men who commit such crimes. No man is greater than a movement.” (Mother Jones)
• This week in obituaries: Robert Mueller, Chuck Norris, Calvin Tomkins, Lionel Jospin, Nicholas Brendan, J. Michael Bishop, Boubacar Ould Messaoud, Catherine Nolan, Sam Kieth, Chip Taylor, Tracy Kidder, Dash Crofts, Jeff Webb, Pat Steir, Daphne Selfe, Heisuke Hironaka, Lilias Folan, Brian Doherty, Leonid Radvinsky, Robert White, Michel Rolland, Robert Fox, and Narjis Jaber, one of 121 children killed by Israel in Lebanon in March.