Civil Beat staff have these recommendations for your weekend reading pleasure:

• HOSPICE, INC.— How Dying Became a Multibillion-Dollar Industry — Mounting evidence indicates that many hospice providers are imperiling the health of patients in a drive to boost revenues and enroll more people. — Huffington Post
• GM Recalls: How General Motors Silenced a Whistle-Blower —  When the man who had been the head of a national inspection program turned into a whistle-blower, he was forced into hibernation. — Bloomberg Businessweek
• The Military Is About to Get New Spy Glasses — Not to be outdone by the NSA, the Defense Department is buying some new spy specs to give operatives in the field an intelligence edge over everybody else. — National Journal
• Crowd-Sourcing the Future of Iraq — An unorthodox search for the future of the country that the U.S. military invaded, conquered and then left behind. — Defense One
• Millennials Are Old News — They were born after 1990, which makes them the largest generational group in the U.S. But who are the people who make up Generation Z? — Business Insider
• With Atlantic Article on Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates Sees Payoff for Years of Struggle — What led the son of a Black Panther, who long resisted the idea of reparations for the descendants of slavery in the U.S., to change his mind? — Washington Post
• The Power of Two — John Lennon and Paul McCartney were obviously more creative as a pair than as individuals, even if at times they appeared to work in opposition to each other. — The Atlantic
• How Immigration Reform Died — The best chance in three decades to rewrite immigration laws has slipped away. — Politico Magazine

And don’t miss Civil Beat’s own must-read stories of the week:

• • Kanaka Maoli to Feds: ‘Get Out of Our House! Go Home!’
  • Honolulu Ethics Commission Complains of Affronts to Its Independence
  • Abercrombie in Top Form at First Debate With Ige
  • Still No Relief for Hawaii’s Most Overheated Classrooms
  • Denby Fawcett: The State Must Save the Lanikai Pillboxes Trail From Its Popularity
  • Chad Blair: Does the AJA Vote Still Matter?
  • Hawaii Monitor: Inside the New World of Negative Political Campaigns
  • PRP Under Investigation Over Its 2012 Campaign Spending