September 6, 2016

Hong Kong youth led a record voter turnout over the weekend, replacing longtime pro-Beijing politicians on the Legislative Council with independents and activists and eliciting a warning from the mainland in response. / Bloomberg, scmp.com, The Guardian, Reuters

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, which manages all Native American reservations, exhorts Native landowners to sign over leases at extremely low costs to large corporations (like Koch Industries), and then gives landowners who ask for rudimentary information a long and expensive runaround. / In These Times, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com

“Listening to all of Britney Spears’s albums in chronological order is like looking at an Animorphs cover of a teen girl gradually turning not into a woman, but a cyborg.” Lindsay Zoladz on Britney’s ability to “remain a cipher in plain sight” / The Ringer

After decades of defeat, Southern workers are organizing. Are they doomed to fail if there is no one to spread word of its victories? / Pacific Standard

American Medical Association traces high drug prices to pharmaceutical monopolies empowered by doctors obliged to fill prescriptions and emboldened by the weak negotiating power of government-backed insurance payers. / jama.jamanetwork.com