Andrew Varsanyi

This week – Article for the Week of 2025-06-24

Each week I share the articles and essays that I found most interesting, annoying, challenging, or important. Hope that you check them out too.

• Opinion | The Story of Antisemitism Needs to Be Rewritten, Starting in New York by M. Gessen in New York Times at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/opinion/antisemitism-new-york-city-mayor.html]
• Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break Republican Precedent – The New York Times by Alan Rappeport in New York Times at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/business/national-debt-limit-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare]
• Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut in 8 Years Unless Congress Acts – The New York Times by Margot Sanger-Katz in New York Times at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/social-security-benefits-shortfall.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare]
• The global economy is teetering by John Rapley in UnHerd at [https://unherd.com/2025/06/the-global-interregnum-is-upon-us/?us=1]
• Trump Is Driving Off Investors and Threatening the Dollar’s Reign by Carter Johnson, Saleha Mohsin, Ruth Carson in Bloomberg.com at [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/trump-agenda-pressures-dollar-as-us-debt-hits-new-highs?srnd=homepage-americas]
• Opinion | This Crypto Act Will Return America to an Era of Economic Chaos – The New York Times by Barry Eichengreen in New York Times at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/genius-act-stablecoin-crypto.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare]
• Opinion | How the N.B.A. and the M.L.B. Shattered America’s Sports Culture – The New York Times by Joon Lee in New York Times at [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/sports-nba-mlb-leagues-streaming-fan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare]
• The Next Conservative Civil War Is Coming by Ankush Khardori in POLITICO at [https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/06/16/emil-bove-nomination-conservative-legal-civil-war-00405837]