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“