News Round Up: best and worst from 8-18 to 8-23

Saudi Arabia's war on witchcraft: This Atlantic article discusses the Saudi effort to eliminate witchcraft in the country, employing Harry Potter sounding agencies to catch magic doers. At first glance, the headline seems ridiculous to westerners, and it's a little hard to put aside cultural differences on this one. I read this from the perspective …

News Round Up: best and worst from 8-11 to 8-17

How Laura Poitras helped Snowden spill his secrets: In what I expected to be a look at the decision to publish sensitive security documents and give a leaker a national platform, Peter Maass takes a sort of weird approach to his New York Times Magazine article about the journalists behind the Snowden story. Maass pays …

News Round Up: best and worst from 8-5 to 8-10

The Opt-outs want in: The New York Times Magazine revisited the opt-out women, those who left their high-power, high-paying jobs to be stay at home moms, exploring whether or not they made the right decision. The piece is interesting and well researched, showing both women who deeply regret their choice and those who have never …

News Round Up: best and worst from 7-29 to 8-3

Will Al Jazeera U.S. be the next big thing in news?: Former Al-Jazeera Chief Wadah Khanfar told the Huffington Post that if the station has any hope of succeeding in American cable news, it has to break the mold completely. Khanfar basically said the station has to go completely "Newsroom," and screw the ratings, only …