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“