Week of 2025-0629

Sunday 2025 June 29

• Terrence McCoy at The Washington Post: “I got an ambulance ride, CT scan and ER care in Brazil. My bill: $0.“

Monday 2025 June 30

• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “The Democratic Party is Its Voters And They’re Doing Just Fine“
• John Light at Talking Points Memo: “Bill Moyers Saw What Was Coming“
• Katalin Balog at 3 Quarks Daily: “Can We Still Have a Soul?“
• David J. Lobina at 3 Quarks Daily: “Where Does Your Theory of Cognition Start From? On First Principles“

Tuesday 2025 July 1

• Alizah Holstein at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Via Appia: Elegy For a Queen“
• Thomas Fernandes at 3 Quarks Daily: “Our first loss“
• Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski at Talking Points Memo: “Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations“
• Paul Chaikin at Quanta Magazine: “The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus“
• Paul Krugman: “Republicans Beware: Medicaid Is Not a Soft Target“
• Paul Krugman: “We’re All Rats Now“
• William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift at The Bulwark: “This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law“
• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “The Decline of the Federal Mediation Service“
• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “How to Teach College in the Age of ChatGPT“

Wednesday 2025 July 2

• Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “DOJ Opens Door To Stripping Citizenship Over Politics“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Denaturalization is a Stark Threat to All Citizenship“

Saturday 2025 July 5

• Adam Liptak at The New York Times: “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke“
• Ross Douthat at The New York Times: “Conservatives Are Prisoners of Their Own Tax Cuts“
• Jesus Jiménez at The New York Times: “Immigration Agents Appear to Urinate in Public at a California School“
• Colbert I. King at The Washington Post: “Whose ‘utmost, sincere convictions’ matter to the Supreme Court?“
• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “The case for (some sort of) optimism about the end of Trumpism“
• Paul Krugman: “Health Care: Jonathan Gruber“
• G. Elliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “One Big Unpopular Bill“
• Phil GalewitZ, Julie Appleby, Renuka Rayasam, Bernard J. Wolfson at NPR: “5 ways Trump’s megabill will limit health care access“
• staff at The Frontier: “We fact-checked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims as part of the ‘Make Oklahoma Healthy Again’ campaign“
• Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “The Rot Goes Deeper Than Trump“
• Grace Rauh at Vital City: “New York’s Primary and the Power of Better Elections“
• Jose Pagliery, NOTUS and Katie Honan at The City: “Trump’s Homeland Security Council Sets Its Sights on Zohran Mamdani“
• Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Law360 Using AI Bias Detector To Make Sure Stories Don’t Accidentally Tell The Truth“
• Wes O’Donnell at Eyes Only: “Let’s Invade Greenland and Panama! Inside America’s Most Awkward Invasion Scenarios“
• Wes O’Donnell at Eyes Only: “Did America’s Biggest Bomb Just Bounce Off a Mountain?“
• Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “Congress Throws More Money at Removing Immigrants than Most Countries Spend on Their Armies“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy“