* When Nada Al-Ahdal discovered that her parents had sold her she ran away. She is 11 years old, and this is her message. Wow.
* Obama, Trayvon and the Problem That Won’t Be Named.
* A study finds the odds of rising to another income level are notably low in certain cities, like Atlanta and Charlotte, and much higher in New York and Boston. 5.6% in Milwaukee. According to this map, without the Dakota oil boom America would have essentially no class mobility at all.
* American children raised at the top, and at the bottom, are more likely to land on the same rung of the income ladder as their fathers than their Canadian counterparts. More than one-quarter of sons raised by fathers in the top 10 percent stay in the top 10 percent as adults, and another quarter fall no further than the top third. Meanwhile, half of those raised by fathers in the bottom 10 percent remain at the bottom or rise no further than the bottom third. In Canada there is less stickiness at the top, and children raised in the bottom are more likely to rise to the top half in earnings.
* The American dream: Survival is not an aspiration.
* Occupy nowhere: Obama signs anti-protest Trespass Bill.
* The sequester is gutting the public defender system too. More here.
* Faint praise watch: “The Newsroom,” Season 2: Not an Unpardonable Train Wreck Like Season 1.
* A new language emerges in Northern Australia.
* MOOCs are a fundamental misperception of how teaching works. No! Gasp!
* Anthropocene art show at Duke.
* Your ‘Distressed’ Jeans Are Wearing Out Workers’ Lungs.
* Dan Harmon! Dan Harmon! Dan Harmon!
* And everything in Iraq’s going juuuuuuuust fine.
Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday.
The deadly raid on the high-security jail happened as Sunni Muslim militants are gaining momentum in their insurgency against the Shi’ite-led government that came to power after the U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein.
