Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week:
How the NSA almost killed the internet — An inside look at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech titans’ fight for their lives against their own government
Why women aren’t women on the internet — We’ve been thinking about internet harassment all wrong
Fear and loathing of the passive voice — “The evidence demonstrates an extraordinary level of grammatical ignorance among educated English language critics”
Citizen Ailes — An excerpt of Gabriel Sherman’s new biography of the Fox News head
Making it — Pick up a spot welder and join the revolution
The man who hates liberal Britain — Can Paul Dacre survive as editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail?
The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.