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“