“veteran diplomats and exasperated travelers said it had done too little, too slowly to help people stranded by flight cancellations and airspace closures in the region.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
“Legal specialists on the use of lethal force have said the strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings, because the military cannot deliberately target civilians who do not pose an imminent threat of violence, even if they are suspected of engaging in criminal acts”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
"Noem’s policy, they said, has been implemented through an “ad hoc review process” with no firm deadlines, which has led to average delays of three weeks and sometimes far longer on decisions around much-needed disaster aid.”
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
" They have forced votes on eight war power resolutions in the House and Senate — a record for a single Congress — since Trump returned to office in an attempt to block him from striking Venezuela, Iran and boats near Latin America suspected of smuggling drugs. All of them have failed."
“The measures listed in the 2025 draft of the proposed executive order include requiring hand-marked and hand-counted paper ballots, requiring voters to register anew for the 2026 midterms with proof of citizenship, and restricting mail ballots to limited circumstances.”
“[…]it is not at all unreasonable to ask why we are building them in the first place.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“If language models can be extortionate and homicidal (not in the distant future but potentially soon), or the cause of widespread employment shocks (again, potentially soon), or a handmaiden to psychosis and self-harm (this is already happening),[…]”
"But he said he has struggled to come to grips with what the calls have shown him: ordinary people who, while going about their daily business, decided to potentially upend a stranger’s life.”
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
“The President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope,” Roberts wrote. “In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.”
Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“But if AI quickly eliminates white-collar work, the country is going to end up in something much stranger than a downturn, and something much harder to recover from too.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“For years, historians have wondered when a big book on McNamara and Vietnam would arrive. Now it has.”
reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/12/16/t...
“I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention,” Marshall said. “Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
If AI eliminates a massive number of jobs, the consequences won’t stop at the economy—they will “test political institutions that have already shown how brittle they can be,” Josh Tyrangiel reports: theatln.tc/dJ29sokd
“[Webster] believes that the federal government made an organized effort to entrap Trump’s biggest supporters on January 6. And he believes that, in pursuing the J6 defendants so mercilessly, the government attempted to silence them, by terrifying them and other conservatives across the country.”
“The question on many Europeans’ minds is whether they can ever really trust the United States again — and what they need to do if they cannot.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
"The finding provided the legal underpinning for the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules, which limited emissions from power plants and tightened fuel-economy standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“However, it’s less talented at organizing—building the kinds of local infrastructure and disparate leaders that are needed to sustain a large and ideologically diverse coalition.”
“Today’s Democratic Party is great at mobilizing: it can propel people into the streets with big marches, raise billions of dollars for national candidates, and get liberals to bombard congressional offices with letters and phone calls.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The President caused a crisis in nato and deepened European distrust toward the U.S. to end up with basically the same set of options that existed months ago.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
Why a New Mexico Developer Quit Natural Gas
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/c...
“While China’s powerful security apparatus and censorship keep public displays of dissatisfaction under wraps, glimpses of resentment are readily found.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
💔
Devastated. My favorite line from her
“After analyzing and converting data from roughly the same period a decade ago — covering November 2015 to January 2016 — reporters arrived at the same figure: nine cigarettes a day, on average.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
“We ran the numbers, and they just don’t pencil.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
