Today is the 19th anniversary of my inception of this blog. I haven’t written as much as I’d hoped to, nor as regularly, but all in all I’m still happy with it.
Author: mongreldogs
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Week of 2025-0601
Sunday 2025 June 1
- Gary Borjesson at 3 Quarks Daily: “Encouraging Good Actors: Using AI to Scale Consumer Power for the Common Good“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Democrats’ Hamlet Moment Isn’t the Start of a Solution But the Heart of the Problem“
Monday 2025 June 2
- Paul Krugman: “Hating New York“
- Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “The Attack“
Tuesday 2025 June 3
- Scott Samuelson at 3 Quarks Daily: “Solitary Confinement and the Exercise of Freedom“
- Mary Hrovat at 3 Quarks Daily: “Traveling Down Through Time“
- Paul Krugman: “We Are No Longer a Serious Country“
- Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “Some Dems Warn Colleagues: Crypto Bill Could Inject Some 19th Century Chaos Into US Economy“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Trump’s Pageant of Corruption is a Gift to the Democratic Party“
Thursday 2025 June 5
- TJ Price at 3 Quarks Daily: “I’m in My ‘End-of-the-World’ Era“
- John Allen Paulos at 3 Quarks Daily: “Bullshit and Cons: Alberto Brandolini and Mark Twain Issue a Warning About Trump“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome“
Friday 2025 June 6
- Peter Dreier at Talking Points Memo: “Why Is Pete Hegseth Going to War Against Harvey Milk, 48 Years After He Was Assassinated?“
- Dana Milbank at The Washington Post: “They are not good at this“
- Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Operation Spider’s Web“
Saturday 2025 June 7
- Alizah Holstein at 3 Quarks Daily: “A Short Record of Minor Disturbances in Widener Library“
- Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times: “The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute“
- Jacob JudahPaul Sonne and Anton Troianovski at The New York Times: “Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China“
- Vimal Patel at The New York Times: “A College President Tried to Make the Move to a Republican State, and Failed“
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “A shattered world: Revisiting ‘1984’“
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “What America voted for“
- Paul Krugman: “Inventing the Renaissance: Ada Palmer“
- Rebecca Solnit at Meditations in an Emergency: “Notes on the Varieties of Resistance“
- Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “DOJ Complains About Burden Of Following Its Own Suggestion“
- Nina Totenberg and Anuli Ononye at NPR: “Supreme Court grants DOGE access to confidential Social Security records“
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Week of 2025-0525
Monday 2025 May 25
- Malcolm Murray at 3 Quarks Daily: “Investing in AGI, or How Much Should You Act on Your Beliefs?“
- Rohit Krishnan at Strange Loop Canon: “Betting on AI risk“
- Paul Krugman: “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like“
- Paul Krugman: “The Economic Consequences of Destroying Harvard“
- Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “More Than 50 Men Entered The US Legally Only To Later Be Sent To CECOT, Report Finds“
Tuesday 2025 May 27
- Emily Keegin at The New York Times: “All Hail Our Rococo President!“
- Perry Bacon Jr. at The Washington Post: “We don’t have an education crisis in America“
- Vladimir Kara-Murza at The Washington Post: “A court case reveals Putin’s profound fear“
- Paul Krugman: “A Letter to Europe“
- Dick Edelstein at 3 Quarks Daily: “Who is a migrant? The Shortest History of Migration by Ian Goldin“
- Hugo Lowell at The Guardian: “White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “The Trump White House and The Great Quieting“
- Jochen Szangolies at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Estuary Of Being III: Mind Beyond Minds“
Wednesday 2025 May 28
- Kevin Lively at 3 Quarks Daily: “We Who Build the Big Guns: On the temptations and dangers of Military Keynesianism in a chaotic world“
Thursday 2025 May 29
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “What Happens With Trump’s Trade War Now?“
Friday 2025 May 30
- Barry Goldman at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Munro Doctrine“
- Rachel Robison-Greene at 3 Quarks Daily: “Artificial Intelligence and Animal Minds“
- Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey at The New York Times: “On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Don’t Fall For Elon Inc.’s Press Campaign“
- Hunter Walker at Talking Points Memo: “The State Department Published A Substack Manifesto On ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’“
Saturday 2025 May 31
- James Glanz at The New York Times: “World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts“
- Li Yuan at The New York Times: “Denying Visas to Chinese Students Could Backfire on America“
- David Brooks at The New York Times: “I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.“
- David Ignatius at The Washington Post: “An overreaching Putin refused to take yes for an answer“
- Philip Bump at The Washington Post: “Americans don’t trust these news sources — but they keep using them“
- Meryl Kornfield and Hannah Natanson at The Washington Post: “It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his.“
- Caitlin Gilbert, Emily Wright, Fenit Nirappil and Lauren Weber at The Washington Post: “The MAHA Report’s AI fingerprints, annotated“
- Dana Milbank at The Washington Post: “The bully gets punched in the nose“
- Paul Krugman: “An Emergency Trade Discussion With Joey Politano“
- Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “The Greatness Paradox“
- Michael Lind at Vital City: “Avoiding the Jetsons Fallacy: AI and the Future of the City“
- Liz Dye at Above the Law: “FL Attorney General Plays Stupid Games, Wins Stupid Prizes“
- Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Trump’s Budget Bill Seeks To Smother Federal Injunctions“
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Week of 2025-0518
Sunday 2025 May 18
- Steven Gimbel at 3 Quarks Daily: “They Cheated Themselves…But Don’t Realize Why: Eternally In Search of the Thinker’s High“
- Todd S. Purdum at The New York Times: “What Desi Arnaz Could Teach Hollywood Today“
- Michael Posner at The New York Times: “Trump Is Destroying a Core American Value. The World Will Notice.“
- Rick Reilly at The Washington Post: “I have decided never to go outside again“
- Megan McArdle at The Washington Post: “Don’t be fooled. This is the calm before the AI storm.“
Monday 2025 May 19
- Paul Krugman: “Attack of the Sadistic Zombies“
- Michael Liss at 3 Quarks Daily: “John Adams Is Bald and Toothless: A Brief History Of The Alien And Sedition Acts“
Tuesday 2025 May 20
- David Kordahl at 3 Quarks Daily: “Tech Intellectuals and the “TESCREAL Bundle”“
- Thomas B. Edsall at The New York Times: “The President Will Destroy You Now“
- David Leonhardt and Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times: “Michelle Goldberg: ‘More Democrats Need to Be Doing This’“
- Paul Krugman: “How Trump Will Make the Tariff Shock Worse“
- John Nichols at The Nation: “Springsteen Gets America in Ways Trump Never Will“
- Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “DHS Sent Detainees To South Sudan On Tuesday In Blatant Defiance Of Judge, Attorneys Allege“
Thursday 2025 May 22
- Paul Krugman: “Gaming Out a Sudden Stop“
- Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender at The New York Times: “Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students“
- Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Supreme Court Kills The Independent Agency. Trump Is King“
Friday 2025 May 23
- Eric Feigenbaum at 3 Quarks Daily: “Lessons From Singapore: If You Can’t Think Because You Can’t Chew, Try A Bannana“
- Charles Siegel at 3 Quarks Daily: “Don’t Deport Protesters, or Defund Universities, in My Name“
- Daniel Gauss at 3 Quarks Daily: “Talking to Machines, Learning to Be Human: AI as a Moral Feedback Loop“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “The Court’s ‘Make It Up As You Go’ Constitution“
Saturday 2025 May 24
- Marc Tracy at The New York Times: “Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television“
- Mitchell Berman at The Washington Post: “No, Trump can’t force his agenda on U.S. entities. They have rights.“
- David Ignatius at The Washington Post: “Trump’s road to failure in Ukraine“
- Philip Bump at The Washington Post: “When it comes to budget math, ‘D.C.-style’ actually means ‘honest’“
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Leaving Vichy Biglaw“
- Paul Krugman: “A Liz Truss Moment for America?“
- Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “Homeland Security Defies Orders, Engages In More Human Trafficking“
- Cory Turner at NPR: “9 things to know about the big, private-school voucher plan in Republicans’ tax bill“
- Deepa Shivaram at NPR: “The White House rejects a watchdog finding that it’s breaking the law over halted funds“
- Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “The Big Beautiful Bill“
- Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Trump’s Biglaw Bootlickers Say Quiet Part Out Loud In Letters To Congress“
- Kathryn Rubino at Above the Law: “Executive Order Against Jenner & Block Is ‘Null And Void’”
- Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Paul Weiss Rainmakers Bolt To Start New Firm Free Of Trump Deal Restrictions“
- Jay Willis at Balls & Strikes: “The Supreme Court Really Expects You to Take This Craven Horseshit Seriously“
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Week of 2025-0511
Monday 2025 May 11
- Katalin Balog at 3 Quarks Daily: “Machine as Mirror: The Undoing of the Human Image“
- Lei Wang at 3 Quarks Daily: “Imagining, for Grown-ups: On Making Up Rituals“
- Justin Papp at Roll Call: “Trump taps Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting head of Library of Congress“
Tuesday 2025 May 13
- Kyle Munkittrick at 3 Quarks Daily: “To Write Well With AI, Write Against It“
- Matt Novak at Gizmodo: “Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife’s Flight to Avoid Newark Airport“
- Tina Nguyen at The Verge: “Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired“
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Joe Biden age update“
Wednesday 2025 May 14
- Christopher Hall at 3 Quarks Daily: “Retcons, Anagnorisis, and Headcanons: Bobby Ewing Returns“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Personalization, The Vastly Bigger Story Behind the Pimpmobile Jet Bribe“
Thursday 2025 May 15
- Tim Sommers at 3 Quarks Daily: “Congratulations on Your Decision to Become a Vampire!“
- Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “Trump Admin Admits It Could Game Court System Without Nationwide Injunctions“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “The Constitution Shouldn’t Have to Wait“
Friday 2025 May 16
- Stephen I. Vladeck at The New York Times: “The ‘Modest’ Ruling That Could Kneecap Our Legal System“
Saturday 2025 May 17
- Nicholas Nehamas at The New York Times: “Trump’s Push to Defund Harvard Prompts Clash Over Veteran Suicide Research“
- Abbie VanSickle at The New York Times: “Supreme Court Retains Block on Using Wartime Law to Deport Venezuelans“
- Michael C. Bender at The New York Times: “Education Secretary Wants Talks With Harvard to Resume, Without Giving Ground“
- Helmuth Rosales and Zach Levitt at The New York Times: “Audio Data Shows Newark Outage Problems Persisted Longer Than Officials Said“
- Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein and Meryl Kornfield at The Washington Post: “How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring“
- The Editorial Board at The Washington Post: “Congress needs to vote on Qatar’s $400 million ‘gift’“
- David Ignatius at The Washington Post: “What happens when honest intelligence work can get you fired?“
- Colbert I. King at The Washington Post: “A question for Donald Trump: What sets Afrikaners apart?“
- Jason Willick at The Washington Post: “The Supreme Court grapples with post-congressional politics“
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Court rules 7-2 against Trump administration’s efforts to disappear people without due process“
- Paul Krugman: “The Trade War Isn’t Over“
- Paul Krugman: “Lessons From the Newark Debacle“
- Joe Mullin at TechDirt: “The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone“
- Glyn Moody at TechDirt: “AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright“
- Shannon Bond and Stephen Fowler at NPR: “How DOGE has tried to embed beyond the executive branch“
- Ron Elving at NPR: “The first time we had ‘one big, beautiful bill’ we called it Reaganomics“
- Stephen Fowler and Shannon Bond: “DOGE tried assigning a team to the Government Accountability Office. It refused“
- Domenico Montanaro at NPR: “Here are 5 takeaways from Trump’s first major foreign trip to the Middle East“
- Doug Muder at The Weekly Shift: “As we approach our crisis of democracy, we’re in better shape than I expected“
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Week of 2025-0504
Monday 2025 May 5
- Shadi Hamid at The Washington Post: “Two words at the border reveal America’s true promise“
- David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo: “3 Prosecutors Resign Over DOJ’s Highly Irregular Move In Police Brutality Case In LA“
- Philip Bump at The Washington Post: “America’s least American president“
- Greg Sargent at The New Republic: “How Trump Accidentally Sabotaged His Own Case Against Abrego Garcia“
Tuesday 2025 May 6
- Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad at 3 Quarks Daily: “Whispers in Code: Grooming Large Language Models for Harm“
- Erin Banco, Phil Stewart, Gram Slattery and Mike Stone at Reuters: “Order by Hegseth to cancel Ukraine weapons caught White House off guard“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research“
- Munir Ahmed and Sheikh Saaliq at AP News: “India fires missiles into Pakistani territory in response to Kashmir attack, killing 8 people”
- Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Another Judge Finds Trump Did Not Validly Invoke Alien Enemies Act Against Alleged Gang“
- Maxine Joselow at the Washington Post: “Trump administration plans to end Energy Star program for home appliances“
- Derek Lowe at Science: “The Continuing Crisis, Part XIV: The Trumpist Worldview“
Wednesday 2025 May 7
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Why Do They Have It In For Biomedical Research?“
- Bill Murray at 3 Quarks Daily: “Managing American Decline“
- Andrea Scrima at 3 Quarks Daily: “Wind Talkers, the Red Willow, and Winnetou“
Friday 2025 May 9
- Richard Farr at 3 Quarks Daily: “Anarchy, State And Authority“
- Scott Samuelson at 3 Quarks Daily: “On Babygirl and Growing Old“
- Mark Harvey at 3 Quarks Daily: “Dissidents and Patriots: Battling Mad King Donald and the New Fascism“
Saturday 2025 May 10
- Zack Stentz at The New York Times: “‘The Studio’ Knows the Real Reason Movies Are Bad“
- Paul Krugman: “Tariffs and Poverty Around the World“
- Rebecca Solnit at Meditations in an Emergency: “Some Rob You with a Six-Gun/ Some With a Fountain Pen: On Civil War By Other Means“
- Mike Brock at TechDirt: “Gavin Newsom Is Normalizing Trump’s Constitutional Violations“
- Marcos F. Soler at Vital City: “The Truth About Shootings in New York City“
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Week of 2025-0427
Sunday 2025 April 27
- Angela Starita at 3 Quarks Daily: “My New Urbanist Blues“
- Charles Siegel at 3 Quarks Daily: “The First Thing We Do, Let’s Abjectly Humiliate The Big Law Firms“
Monday 2025 April 28
- Martin Butler at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Case For Being Non-Judgmental“
- Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner at The Washington Post: “Who’s most likely to change (or hyphenate) their name after marriage?“
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “How to Alienate Western Republicans“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Yes, Public Opinion Still Matters … Even More Than Before“
Tuesday 2025 April 29
- Malcolm Murray at 3 Quarks Daily: “Fermi Redux – Where is All the AI-Enabled Cybercrime?“
Wednesday 2025 April 30
- Rachel Robison-Greene at 3 Quarks Daily: “I Should be Afraid of Myself“
Thursday 2025 May 1
- Kevin Lively at 3 Quarks Daily: “Masters of War“
- Kate Riga and Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “A Judge Finally Rules Trump Can’t Apply Alien Enemies Act To Alleged Gang Members In The First Place“
- Irineo Cabreros and Aatish Bhatia at The New York Times: “Eight Charts That Sum Up Trump’s First 100 Days“
- Jamelle Bouie at The New York Times: “Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt“
- Aaron Blake at The Washington Post: “Trump team’s judicial conspiracy theory suffers a big blow in court“
- Karin Brulliard at The Washington Post: “A small Montana town has thrived on federal jobs. Now come Trump’s cuts.“
- Maria Sacchetti and Marianne LeVine at The Washington Post: “Judge rules Trump’s use of wartime act for deportations is illegal“
- Tom Malinowski at The Bulwark: “Make It Painful to Collaborate with Trump“
- The Editorial Board at The New York Times: “There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab“
Friday 2025 May 2
- Jochen Szangolies at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Estuary Of Being II: Life Comes To Mind“
- Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System“
- Jennifer Bowers Bahney at Raw Story: “Insider issues ‘incredible’ warning to avoid critical air hub ‘at all costs’ over safety“
Saturday 2025 May 3
- Kellen Browning at The New York Times: “In Montana, a Rare Sight: Republicans and Democrats Voting Together“
- John McWhorter at The New York Times: “It’s One of the Things I Always Hated About Cities. And I’ve Decided It’s Just Fine.“
- Mark Berman at The Washington Post: “Judge strikes down Trump order punishing law firm Perkins Coie“
- Warren P. Strobel at The Washington Post: “Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies“
- Olivia George and Alex Horton at The Washington Post: “Trump to mark Army’s birthday, and his, with parade of 6,600 soldiers“
- Philip Bump at The Washington Post: “Hey, Oklahoma students. Here’s your real ‘election fraud’ primer.“
- Jon Campbell at Gothamist: “New state bill would let City Council remove NYC mayor from office“
- Mark Wilson at Fast Company: “The kerning on the pope’s tomb is a travesty“
- Neil Barsky at Vital City: “When New York City Truly Teetered on the Brink“
- Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway at TWZ: “Is An ‘Interim’ Air Force One Replacement Even Feasible?“
- Tyler Rogoway at TWZ: “Marine MV-22 Ospreys Won’t Get Tanker Capability To Refuel F-35Bs Anytime Soon“
- Joseph Trevithick at TWZ: “Making Sure Wingman Drones Don’t Hit Their Crewed Companions Still A Challenge Marines Say“
- Joseph Trevithick at TWZ: “AI Is Now Dogfighting With Fighter Pilots In The Air“
- Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Microsoft Boots Trump Capitulator Simpson Thacher, Awards Business To Jenner & Block“
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Week of 2025-0420
Sunday 2025 April 20
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “What Is To Be Done – The DOJ In Exile Edition“
Tuesday 2025 April 22
- William Benzon at 3 Quarks Daily: “Why I am a Patriot: Vietnam, the Draft, Mennonites, and Project Apollo“
- Michael Liss at 3 Quarks Daily: “If The Thing Be Pressed: Two Weeks In April, 1865“
- Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Right-Wing Justices Lap Up Anti-LGBTQ Arguments In Case On School Board Culture War“
- David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo: “Trump Administration Takes Defiance In Abrego Garcia Case To A New Level“
Thursday 2025 April 24
- Jerry Cayford at 3 Quarks Daily: “What Is the Game?“
- Stefanos Chen and Benjamin Weiser at The New York Times: “U.S. Sidelines Lawyers Who Doubted Their Own Case on Congestion Pricing“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Trump Asks ‘How High?’ After Xi Tells Him to Jump“
- Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Judge Rejects Trump’s Vision Of An All-Powerful Presidency In Blocking Chunks Of His Election Order“
- Eric Katz at Government Executive: “VA forces staff in workforce reduction discussions to sign non-disclosure agreements“
- Todd Spangler at Variety: “Trump Lashes Out at Rupert Murdoch Over Fox News’ ‘Trump Hating, Fake Pollster’ After Survey Reveals Record-Low Approval Ratings“
- Jamelle Bouie at The New York Times: “One Way to Keep Trump’s Authoritarian Fantasy From Becoming Our Reality“
Friday 2025 April 25
- Mark R. DeLong at 3 Quarks Daily: “Islands of Safety and Ironic Points of Light“
- Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “FBI Stages Courthouse Arrest of Wisconsin Judge“
Saturday 2025 April 26
- Shane GoldmacherRuth Igielnik and Camille Baker at The New York Times: “Voters See Trump’s Use of Power as Overreaching, Times/Siena Poll Finds“
- Alan Feuer at The New York Times: “2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects“
- Paul Krugman: “Cronyism, Capitulation and Utter Chaos“
- Erin Horáková at Strange Horizons: “Freshly Remember’d: Kirk Drift“
- Mike Brock at TechDirt: “Gavin Newsom Has Lost The Plot“
- Cathy Gellis at TechDirt: “Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare“
- Cory Turner at NPR: “Why judges blocked the Trump admin’s school DEI crackdown“
- Tom Bowman, Quil Lawrence at NPR: “New senior staff announced as White House looks to ‘right the ship’ at the Pentagon“
- Lisa Hagen at NPR: “They say they want Americans to have more babies. What’s beneath the surface?“
- Sasha Ndisabiye and Bennett Brinkman at NonDoc: “Walters accuses board members of lying to media as tensions run high in meeting“
- Norman Eisen at The Contrarian: “Trump’s autocracy is growing—but patriotic opposition is growing faster“
- Anat Shenker-Osorio at The Contrarian: “Fascism and the English language“
- Jennifer Rubin at The Contrarian: “Words & Phrases We Can Do Without“
- Claudia Sahm at Stay-at-Home Macro: “A crash course in Fed independence“
- Cheryl Rofer at Nuclear Diner: “DOGE At NLRB“
- Haidee Chu at The City: “Vending Enforcement Slams Poor Minorities in White Neighborhoods, New Report Finds“
- Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “So, We’ve Entered The ‘FBI Arresting Judges’ Stage Of Dystopia“
- Paul Butler at The Washington Post: “Can Trump send U.S. citizens to prisons overseas? Not yet.“
- David Blatt, Ph.D. at Oklahoma Appleseed: “Gross Misconduct: A Comprehensive Compilation of Ryan Walters’ Misdeeds in Office“
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Week of 2025-0413
Sunday 2025 April 13
- Daniel Shotkin at 3 Quarks Daily: “Harvard and Dreaming Big“
- Scott Samuelson at 3 Quarks Daily: “We Need the Liberal Arts to Keep Us from Being Tools of Our Tools“
- Adele A.Wilby at 3 Quarks Daily: “Gay Nature“
Monday 2025 April 14
- Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein and Meryl Kornfield at The Washington Post: “Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead“
- Tim Sommers at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Very Real, Physical Threat Posed by Zombies“
- M. Gessen at The New York Times: “This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare“
- Olivia George and Marianne LeVine at The Washington Post: “Justice Dept. says it’s not required to bring back wrongly deported man“
- Aziz Huq at The Washington Post: “Trump has left himself open to a powerful constitutional counterpunch“
- Susan Svrluga at The Washington Post: “Harvard rejects Trump administration’s demands with federal funding at risk“
- Rebecca Solnit at Meditations in an Emergency: “Stupid Coup Month Three: Two Plus Two Is Still Four“
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, & Money: “The Tariff Lesson of the 19th Century“
Tuesday 2025 April 15
- Jonathan Kujawa at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Power of Twos“
- Ashutosh Jogalekar at 3 Quarks Daily: “A Re-Declaration of Independence, For the Preservation of the Republic“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Bukele’s Offense Against the American People“
Wednesday 2025 April 16
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Failures of Imagination“
- Ken MacVey at 3 Quarks Daily: “Corporations, Free Will, Responsibility and AI: How Do They Fit Together?“
- Paul Krugman: “Happy Tax Evasion Day!“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “What are Universities Supposed to Do?“
- Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo: “5 Points On How Judge Boasberg Broke Down The Admin’s Alien Enemies Contempt“
- Rebecca Davis O’Brien at The New York Times: “Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by Trump“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “For Big Law: Is That Your Final Answer?“
Friday 2025 April 18
- Anonymous at Futility Closet: “Fast rites“
- Kyle Munkittrick at 3 Quarks Daily: “Solving the Trolley Problem: Towards Moral Abundance“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “SCOTUS Can Let the President Break the Law, But It Can’t Change the Law“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability“
Saturday 2025 April 19
- Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender at The New York Times: “Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard“
- Michael Idov at The New York Times: “Trump Just Scrapped My Anti-Kremlin Streaming Platform“
- Ryan Holiday at The New York Times: “The Naval Academy Thinks Midshipmen Can’t Handle the Truth“
- Frances Vinall at The Washington Post: “Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, judge rules“
- Colbert I. King at The Washington Post: “When a president understood the role of the courts“
- Erik Wemple at The Washington Post: “Heard the resistance was dead? You’ve been reading too much.“
- Dana Milbank at The Washington Post: “Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure“
- Matt Baker at The New York Times: “How involved is Bill Belichick’s girlfriend at UNC? New emails show a glimpse inside her role“
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Trump Tank Economy“
- Paul Krugman: “Why Trump Will Lose His Trade War“
- Paul Krugman: “Law Firms, Trade Wars and the Weakness of Monarchs“
- Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “‘This Should Be Shocking’: Conservative Judge Blasts White House As Senator Finally Accesses Abrego Garcia“
- Tim Cushing at TechDirt: “Library Study Shows It’s Just Politicians And Activist Groups Trying To Get Books Banned“
- David Schleicher at Vital City: “Why Does Everything Cost So Much?“
- Joe Patrice at Above the Law: “Maybe Don’t ‘Both Sides’ Disappearing People To Foreign Gulags, OK?“
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Week of 2025-0406
Sunday 2025 April 6
- Jessica Gelt at The L.A. Times: “Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH“
Monday 2025 April 7
- Norman Mayersohn at The New York Times (2019): “Getting to Appreciate the Unloved Turn Signal“
- Alizah Holstein at 3 Quarks Daily: “Three Days in Constantinople“
- Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad at 3 Quarks Daily: “Benevolence Beyond Code: Rethinking AI through Confucian Ethics“
- Kevin Lively at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Ideological Assault on Society“
- Sarah N. Lynch at Reuters: “US marshals were mobilized to warn fired DOJ lawyer over congressional testimony, attorney says“
Tuesday 2025 April 8
- John Allen Paulos at 3 Quarks Daily: “A Simple Model of Lazy Voters and Partisan Politics“
- Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times: “Why Did So Many People Delude Themselves About Trump?“
- Jesse Eisinger at Talking Points Memo: “No, President Trump, The Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was An Accident.“
- Michael Le Page at New Scientist: “No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction“
- Jacob Bogage and Shannon Najmabadi at The Washington Post: “IRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration authorities“
Wednesday 2025 April 9
- Jamelle Bouie at The New York Times: “Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated“
- Iveta Silova at Talking Points Memo: “History Has Lessons For Universities As They Consider Giving In To Authoritarian Demands“
- Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Fate Of Independent Agencies Inches Closer To Supreme Court Finale“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “A Few Notes on Trump’s Abject, Humiliating and Maybe Not Even Accomplishing Much Cave“
Thursday 2025 April 10
- David J. Lobina at 3 Quarks Daily: “What is Left? Norberto Bobbio on Left and Right Politics, 2024-25 Edition“
- Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “DOGE Playas, their DOGE Enforcer Pals And the Security Detail You Need to Be a True DOGE-Banger“
Friday 2025 April 11
- Mindy Clegg at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Zombification of Nation-States?“
- Scott Limeux at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Does anybody remember the Major Questions doctrine?“
- Joan Westenberg at The Index: “The Epistemic Costs of Erratic Empire“
- Michael Luciano at Mediaite: “Supreme Court Orders Trump Administration to Retrieve Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported“
- Alan Feuer and Aishvarya Kavi at The New York Times: “White House Continues Defiant Stance on Seeking Return of Deported Man“
Saturday 2025 April 12
- Emily Badger at The New York Times: “Musk’s Latest Fraud Finding Isn’t What It Seems“
- Alexandra BerzonHamed AleazizNicholas NehamasRyan Mac and Tara Siegel Bernard at The New York Times: “Social Security Lists Thousands of Migrants as Dead to Prompt Them to ‘Self-Deport’“
- Paul Krugman and Claudia Sahm: “An Interview With Claudia Sahm: Of rules, recessions and more“
- Karl Bode at TechDirt: “Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Enshittification Meet“
- Karl Bode at TechDirt: “ARPA Is Delivering The ‘Abundance’ Ezra Klein Claims To Be Looking For“
- Alejandra Borunda at NPR: “Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“
- Katrina Crumbacher at NonDoc: “Mullin draws backlash over reporter violence ‘joke’“
- Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “Is this a turning point?“
- Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “Rising energy“
- Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “On tariffs and the markets“
- Wes O’Donnell at Eyes Only: “The US Just Deployed Half its Operational B-2 Bombers to This Remote Island“
- Jake Berman at Vital City: “A transit map designer reviews the new MTA subway map.”
- David R. Eichenthal at Vital City: “Echoes of 1977 Shape 2025 Mayoral Politics in New York“
- Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman at Grammarphobia: “Sex, gender, and sociology“
- Kevin Underhill at Lowering the Bar: “U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Decide Who Owns Banana Taped to Wall“
- Kathryn Rubino at Above the Law: “Biglaw Is Under Attack. Here’s What The Firms Are Doing About It.“
- Liz Dye at Above the Law: “Chief Justice’s Plan To Give Presidents A Little Rendition As A Treat Explodes On Impact At Trial Court“