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The playbook on how to win influence over President Trump is well known—and it still works. / Wake Up to Politics
Law professors explain what happens if the White House ignores the courts. / NPR
Benjamin Wittes: How effective can judges be in this task? Courts, after all, don't have armies. / Lawfare
Noura Erakat: Surviving this next chapter demands that we see ourselves as the rest of the world sees us too. / Boston Review
Google's online and mobile calendars no longer include references to Black History Month, Women's History Month, or LGBTQ+ holidays. / The Guardian
The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives. / WIRED
From January, a look at how luxury real estate owners in Montana save thousands of dollars annually, thanks to the state's agricultural tax code. / High Country News
A report from residents of America's "first car-free neighborhood" in Arizona. "It reminds me of Mykonos." / dwell
Unrelated: "The Bop House Is an OnlyFans Paradise That Pulls Millions Per Month." / VICE
The fact that Los Angeles can aspire to host a "car-free" Olympics owes a great debt to researcher Donald Shoup. / Torched
A mystery woman has been revealed in the upper right corner of Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto." / Hyperallergic
Novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92. / The Seattle Times
An essay connects Goodnight Moon to Louise Glück's final book, regarding her granddaughters. / The Paris Review
See also: "Whatever else it is, deep reading is slow reading." / The Hinternet
Some interviews with India's finest carvers of chess sets, many of whom specialize in just one piece. / Atlas Obscura
Retired athlete Diego Schwartzman explains how having a small body made him one of tennis's biggest players. / ATP
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