Week of 2025-0803

Sunday 2025 August 3

• Natalie Jackson at National Journal: “Why we can’t separate approval ratings from polarization and dysfunction“

Monday 2025 August 4

• Tim Sommers at 3 Quarks Daily: “Weighing Lives“
• Jonathan Kujawa at 3 Quarks Daily: “Can You Hear the Shape of a Black Hole?“
• Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: “Texas Redistricting Quorum Flight Time Warp!“
• Andrew Lisa at GoBankingRates: “If Wealth Was Evenly Distributed Across the US, How Much Money Would Every Person Have?“‘
• Robert J. Shapiro at The Washington Monthly: “The U.S. Economy Is Stumbling Badly“

Wednesday 2025 August 6

• Christopher Hall at 3 Quarks Daily: “Telling It Wrong: The Stories of Superman“
• Nicole Gelinas at The New York Times: “They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons“

Thursday 2025 August 7

• Kyle Munkittrick at 3 Quarks Daily: “You’re probably missing out on a golden age of storytelling“
• Kate Riga at Talking Points Memo: “Russ Vought Is Talking A Big Game—But Even This Supreme Court Might Not Back It Up“
• David Beer at 3 Quarks Daily: “Are You Hesitating Over AI? If So, You Are Not Alone“
• Aaron Wiener and Kate Brady at The Washington Post: “Germany’s identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time“

Saturday 2025 August 9

• Paul Krugman: “It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation“
• John McWhorter at The New York Times: “Springsteen Isn’t Who I Thought He Was“
• Mike Masnick at TechDirt: “Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain“
• Doug Muder at The Weekly Sift: “Shaping Ourselves“
• Adam Gabbatt at The Guardian: “‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity“
• Claudia Sahm at Stay-at-Home Macro: “Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why“
• Amy Sundberg at Bolts: “Seattle Renews Its Unique Approach to Public Campaign Financing“
• Michael Tomasky at The New Republic: “The Media’s Urge to Be “Fair” to Trump Is Killing the Republic“