Week of 2026-0104

Sunday 2026 January 4

• Charles Siegel at 3 Quarks Daily: “Roberto Chaves Chavarria, RIP“
• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns, and Money: “Yankee imperialism and neo-fascist spectacle“
• Steve Vladeck at One First: “Five Questions About the Maduro Arrest Operation“
• Steve Vladeck at One First: “The Supreme Court’s Annie Hall Problem”
• Steve Vladeck at One First: “Progressive Judicial Institutionalism“
• Timothy Snyder at Thinking About…: “Venezuela: The Precedents“
• Aled Maclean-Jones at Works in Progress: “Watch men“
• Phoebe Arslanagic-Little at Works in Progress: “Two is already too many“

Monday 2026 January 5

• Carolyn Y. Johnson at The Washington Post: “Feuding physicists and the bitter battle over the swirls in ‘The Starry Night’“
• Paul Krugman: “The Real Donroe Doctrine“
• Stephen Nessen at Gothamist: “A year later, blowback over NYC’s congestion pricing tolls has died down“
• Samuel Hughes at Works in Progress: “The Great Downzoning“
• Samuel Hughes at Works in Progress: “The beauty of concrete“

Tuesday 2026 January 6

• Malcolm Murray at 3 Quarks Daily: “Varying Degrees of “Future Comfort” in AI predictions“
• Bonnie McCune at 3 Quarks Daily: “The Wages of Aging“
• Anvar Sarygulov & Phoebe Arslanagic-Little at Works in Progress: “Understanding the Baby Boom“
• Robin Grier at Works in Progress: “How Mexico built a state“

Thursday 2026 January 8

• Paul Krugman: “The Looting of US Foreign Policy“

Friday 2026 January 9

• Rachel Robison-Greene at 3 Quarks Daily: “Personhood, Virtual Wantons, and Online Bullshit”
• Josh Marshal at Talking Points Memo: “Abolish ICE? DHS Too. It’s Time“

Saturday 2026 January 10

• Paul Krugman: “Phillips O’Brien on Venezuela and More“
• Paul Krugman: “The Emperor’s New Oil Wealth“
• Phillips P. OBrien at Phillips’s Newsletter: “Can You Do Regime Change Without Changing A Regime?“
• Rebecca Solnit at Meditations in an Emergency: “Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition“
• G. Elliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “Pardon my coup“
• G. Elliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high“
• Doug Mouder at The Weekly Sift: “The Euphoria Period“
• Doug Mouder at The Weekly Sift: “The Venezuela attack is a constitutional crisis for the United States“
• Lisa Chamberlain at Vital City: “Revealing Hidden Signals in City Hotline Data“
• Wes O’Donnell: “Did Trump Accidently[sic] Reveal a Top Secret US Kill Switch?“
• Margaret Sullivan at American Crisis: “Should the news media ‘love America’? Here’s how.”
• Steve Vladeck at One First: “Who is the Chief Justice’s Audience?“
• Asha Rangappa at Complicity & Courage: “Friday Round Up! 1/9/26: It was a bad shoot“