Week of 2026-0125

Sunday 2026 January 25

• Blair Effron at The New York Times: “Humans Possess One Thing That A.I. Does Not: Judgment“
• David Brooks at The New York Times “The Coming Trump Crackup“

Monday 2026 January 26

• Michael Liss at 3 Quarks Daily: “A Seat At The Top: Book Review Of “Lunch On A Beam”“
• Herbert Harris at 3 Quarks Daily: “A Room For Books“
• Paul Krugman: “Was This a Murder Too Far?“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Remembering the Boston Massacre as Minneapolis Writhes Under Occupation“

Tuesday 2026 January 27

• Jeroen Bouterse at 3 Quarks Daily: “Look on my works“
• Paul Krugman: “How Canada Became an Enemy“
• G. Eliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “The ICE shootings are a tipping point“
• Timothy Snyder at Thinking About… “Lies and Lawlessness“

Wednesday 2026 January 28

• Omar Wasow at The New York Times: “ICE’s Brutality Is Its Weakness” (gift)
• Jamelle Bouie at The New York Times: “Minneapolis May Be Trump’s Gettysburg“
• Theodore R. Johnson at The Washington Post: “This shouldn’t be part of life in military uniform” (gift)
• Paul Krugman: “Minnesota is the Beginning of an American Color Revolution“

Thursday 2026 January 29

• Jerry Cayford at 3 Quarks Daily: “A Trustworthy Remedy in the Google Ad Tech Trial“
• Rebecca Solnit at Meditations in an Emergency: ““Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results”: On Immigration and Assumptions“
• Katie Weill at Talking Points Memo: “Why Conspiracy Theories About the Minnesota Protests Are Falling Flat“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “ICE Masks, Billionaires and the Politics of Anti-Accountability” (gift)
• Alex Bronzini-Vender at The Washington Monthly: “The Real Cause of Grade Inflation“

Friday 2026 January 30

• G. Elliott Morris at Strength in Numbers: “Americans voted for Trump, but never supported Trumpism“
• Paul Krugman: “The Lowdown on Debasement“
• Transportation and Land Use Group at New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management: “A Better Billion“

Saturday 2026 January 31

• Paul Krugman: “The World Files for Economic Divorce from America”
• Paul Krugman: “Talking with Chad Bown“
• Stephen Nessen at Gothamist: “Trump’s push to stop Hudson River tunnel construction burns his blue-collar supporters“
• Doug Mouder at The Weekly Sift: “Resistance“
• Doug Mouder at The Weekly Sift: “Turning point or tipping point?“
• Moses Gates at Vital City: “Observation Decks for All New Yorkers“
• Cheryl Rofer at Nuclear Diner: “The End Of Arms Control“
• Molly Coleman at Balls and Strikes: ““The People of Minnesota Are Stronger Than the Federal Government That Seeks to Break Us”“
• Madiba K. Dennie at Balls and Strikes: “The Legal Academy’s Leading Originalists Remain Breathtakingly Full of Shit“
• Steve Vladeck at One First: ““Administrative Warrants” and the Percival Op-Ed“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Reality Distortion in the Age of Trump and the Corrupt Court“
• Beck Klein at The Oaklandside: “One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did“