What I read today Nov 5

• Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?, NY Times

• Why Are We Only Talking About ‘Mom Books’ by White Women?, The Cut

• A Cultural History of Hideous Sandals, Vox

• Editorial: No on Issue 1: Major reforms require more deliberation, Columbus Dispatch

• Stacey Abrams's Prescription for a Maternal-Health Crisis, The Atlantic

• See What Your Home Once Looked Like With Newly Digitized 1940s Tax Photos, Brownstoner
  OMG OMG fangirling out

• What’s on the Back of the Ballot in New York City? 3 Ways to Tweak Democracy, NY Times

• New School Study Uncovers Another $1 Billion In Hudson Yards Subsidies, Gothamist

• THE HEART OF WHITENESS: ON SPIRITUAL TOURISM AND THE COLONIZATION OF AYAHUASCA, Bitch Media

• Three New York City Ballot Proposals, One Worth Supporting, NY Times

• It’s 2018, and New York Still Doesn’t Care About Your Vote., Medium

• NYC’s community board term limits ballot measure, explained, Curbed

• Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations, NY Times