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
M. Gessen explains the five categories of arguments people use when they engage in "anticipatory obedience." / The New York Times [+] Spencer Ackerman: Regarding Palestinians, Donald Trump is "a fulfillment of longstanding currents in American history." / Forever Wars A trend forecaster plots the chart between Brat Summer
It wasn't until 2021 that the US included domestic extremism in its counterterrorism scope; Trump's pardons of insurrectionists calls into question who counts as a terrorist now. / ProPublica How to access the full data.gov archive, which as of now contains 311,000 datasets harvested in
As Israel prepares to move ahead with Trump's plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza, Egypt says doing so may threaten its peace deal with Israel. / AP A leading climatologist says limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius by 2100 is no longer possible, calling that target from the
Studies suggest people often prefer AI-generated content to human-generated material, or can't tell the difference. / Allure See also: A clamshell keyboard that turns phones into laptops. / dezeen A former Instagram researcher says Meta not only doesn't understand how friendship works, it doesn't
Thousands of residents flee the Greek island of Santorini after earthquakes are recorded for a fourth consecutive day. / BBC News Sweden suffers its worst school shooting, with at least 11 people killed. / Al Jazeera A growing number of countries are forging economic partnerships without the United States. / The New York
Pictures from the recent "day without immigrants" protests, mostly organized on social media. / The Los Angeles Times China responds to tariffs with export restrictions and surcharges on American coal and gas. / Semafor India extracts more groundwater than any other country worldwide, more than the US and China combined.
"Commentators should please stop using words such as 'digital' and 'progress' and 'efficiency' and 'vision' when describing this coup attempt." / Thinking about... Related: The engineers playing a key role in Elon Musk's attempt to dismantle federal infrastructure are
It's no longer enough to measure income gaps to depict inequality; now, wealth gaps paint a far bleaker picture of American prosperity. / The Conversation See also: The wildfires exposed a truth about how power operates in Los Angeles: "No city is more in need of its next
A technical glitch prevented yesterday's edition from mailing—our apologies! More than half a million displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza. / Al Jazeera Kenyans ranked as the most optimistic people on the planet in 2002—an overview of their hope ever since. / Africa Is a Country No
