Week of 2025-0831

Monday 2025 Sep 1

• Paul Krugman: “Decline and Fall of the American Empire“
• Paul Krugman: “An Emergency non-Emergency Post“

Tuesday 2025 Sep 2

• Sherman Clark at 3 Quarks Daily: “Don’t be Cruel: The Cost of Looking Away“
• Lei Wang at 3 Quarks Daily: “Imagining, for Grown-Ups: I Just Want Somebody to Watch Me“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Gaming Out Trump Nuclear Option Electoral Scenarios“

Wednesday 2025 Sep 3

• David Beer at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Thin Line Between Crime Fiction And Horror“
• Ken MacVey at 3 Quarks Daily: “Crony Capitalism, Milton Friedman’s Contradiction, and Trumpocracy“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Another Element of the Equation – Electoral Nuclear Options”

Thursday 2025 Sep 4

• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “What Dems Should Ask For“

Friday 2025 Sep 5

• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Living in Trump’s World“
• Layla A. Jones at Talking Points Memo: “New Jobs Report Shows Trump Can’t Control Data by Firing People He Doesn’t Like“

Saturday 2025 Sep 6

• Christopher Hall at 3 Quarks Daily: “If We Finish Games, Can We Win Novels?“
• Timothy Geigner at TechDirt: “The RFK Jr. Congressional Hearing Was An Unmitigated Disaster“
• Cathy Gellis at TechDirt: “Something Good The Supreme Court Could Do: Finally Fix The First Amendment Problems With Platform Liability For Copyright Infringement“
• Sasha Ndisabiye at NonDoc: “With Walters absent, State Board of Education hires attorney Ryan Leonard after forcing special meeting“
• Brigid Bergin at Gothamist: “Mayor Adams hires Bronx election lawyer to review signatures supporting independent run“
• Dominique Jack at PIX11: “New NYC student OMNY card unveiled for first day of school“
• Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “Waking up to the difference“
• Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “Lysenkoism Comes to America“
• Claudia Sahm at Stay-at-Home Macro: “Who will be in charge of interest rates?“
• Neil Barsky at Vital City: “What Jonathan Mahler’s ‘Gods of New York’ captures — and misses“
• Wes O’Donnell at Eyes Only: “Taiwan 2027: What Can WWII Teach Us About a War With China?“
• vanshnookenraggen: “Why Doesn’t the M Train Loop in Queens?“