Judge me judge me judge me.

By not wanting to hear witnesses, Lamar Alexander has done us all a favor: the trial that wasn’t really a trial will soon be over, “and we will no longer have to listen to it.” 1/25

Republican lawmakers feel trapped by Trump in Washington and by his “cult” of supporters back home. 2/25

It turns out the Library of Congress is afraid of Trump too. 3/25

"Fox’s message is clear: When the stakes are highest and the spotlight is brightest, the network produces right-wing propaganda, not journalism." 4/25

Approaching the Iowa primary, what is everyone reading? A scrappy start-up in the East Village of Des Moines. 5/25

Bayesian analysis finds a 15.8% chance that Bernie Sanders is a crypto-communist hiding in plain sight. 6/25

Young leftists love Vivian Gornick's books on socialists and American Communism—works that she routinely disparages. 7/25

Ross Douthat is the rare political columnist to seem “aware that the battles he cares about have been lost, perhaps permanently.” 8/25

Etsy explains how it doubled its hiring of black and Latino employees within a year. 9/25

Dayna Tortorici goes deep into the push and pull of her Instagram addiction. 10/25

Google sees a spike in people searching for the words virus, corona, and beer. 11/25

In Wuhan, two hospitals are being constructed for coronavirus patients in a matter of days. 12/25

Britain has left the EU—here are the morning's front pages—but what happens now? 13/25

Why do Ivy Leaguers pursue jobs in consulting and finance? Because they're "sufficiently anodyne" and require few specific skills. 14/25

Kenya is a rich source of highly qualified people ready to take on homework assignments. 15/25

Among the perils of the mattress industry: more than 170 US companies now sell mattresses online. 16/25

A solution to US cities' lack of public toilets? Soon you may be able to summon a bathroom from your phone. 17/25

Universities in the States are trying to install tracking software on students' phones, in part to monitor class attendance. 18/25

The story of US-Saudi (i.e., Aramco) relations from the eyes of “a fully indoctrinated company kid.” 19/25

A new exhibition in New York City gathers four decades of abstract art from the Arab world. 20/25

Some footage on how special effects are made for movie or TV scenes involving boats, pirates, water, etc. 21/25

“All I do is listen to country (and the occasional Joni) and smoke. Judge me judge me judge me.” A poem about country music. 22/25

Case study of the work of Roger Ferriter, best known for designing the logo and packaging for Hanes L’eggs brand of pantyhose. 23/25

A new, real-time chat room for up to six participants is meant to be ephemeral: messages almost instantly disappear. 24/25

Happy (early) Groundhog Day: In Woodstock, Ill., where Groundhog Day was filmed, hundreds of fans gather every year, year after year, to celebrate their favorite movie. 25/25

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