Civil Reads: Spend Sunday Morning with the Best Journalism of the Week

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There’s so much great stuff to read in the world today, how do you keep up with all of it?

Here’s one way: our new Civil Reads feature. Civil Beat reporters and editors come across a lot of amazing stories every week. We share them on our Twitter feed and Facebook pages, or email them around the office.

It’s a bit of an eclectic mix, to be sure. But we hope you find some items that will interest you, too.

And we’d like to hear what you’re reading. Send us your favorite stories of the week (news@civilbeat.com) and we will share them with our growing Civil Beat community.

So grab a cup of coffee and pull up a chair. It’s a great way to start your Sunday.

  • — The Pulitzer Prizes were announced last week and this series was a finalist in the investigative reporting category. It takes readers “inside America’s underground market for adopted children.” Riveting storytelling on a little known topic. — Reuters

  • “The late Gabriel García Márquez holds a special place in the hearts of journalists,” is the first line of this story. Read what is so special about the novelist who took millions of readers to “magical, formidable and melancholy worlds.” He died last week at the age of 87. — Newsweek

  • — This column by a pediatric nurse in New York will bring tears to your eyes and reaffirm your faith. — Huffington Post

  • — A contender for next year’s Pulitzer? ProPublica delves into how Southern schools had successfully (in all senses of the word) desegregated, but have fallen back into segregation and poor student performance. — ProPublica

  • — A new study finds bearded men are more attractive when facial hair is less prevalent. A staff favorite. — AlJazeera America

  • — Princeton and Northwestern universities researchers find that the U.S. political system serves a small group of the politically powerful elite — The Telegraph

  • — Media critic, pundit and veteran journalist Michael Kinsley has signed on as Vanity Fair’s newest columnist. He argues for the continued survival of high-quality journalism. — Vanity Fair

  • — At Civil Beat, we take our comments seriously. It’s stories like this
    that make us glad that in comparison, our community is civil. — Chicago Sun-Times

  • — The title of this super infographic plus text says it all. Spoiler alert: Hawaii comes in first in exercise. — Business Insider

And here are a few of Civil Beat’s own stories that you won’t want to have missed:

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