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 | Populists Are Gaining Power and Keeping It. What Comes Next? by Anthony J. Constantini in POLITICO at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/13/trump-populism-europe-us-00287198 Again with the constant flattening on “populism”. |
| Why can Trump just say everything is an emergency and do whatever he wants? by Abdallah Fayyad in Vox at https://www.vox.com/policy/407861/trump-tariff-national-emergency-trade-deficit-presidential-powers |
| Scientists Map Miles of Wiring in a Speck of Mouse Brain – The New York Times by Carl Zimmer in New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/science/neuroscience-brain-mice-map.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare |
| Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets. We asked them why. by Zack Beauchamp in Vox at https://www.vox.com/on-the-right-newsletter/407623/trump-tariff-culture-war-hanania-khan-ferguson |
| Joe Biden Was A Shell of Himself by End of Term. Hunter Biden Didn’t Help. by Chris Smith in Vanity Fair at https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/joe-biden-was-a-shell-of-himself-hunter-didnt-help?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us This is sad. And unsurprising. The Democratic Party and the supposed elites that ran it into the ground need to be booted from the party. These people and their idiotic ideas of “triangulation” and the “median voter” are why Democrats lose all the time. They treat Americans like they’re stupid and all the do is lose as a result. |
| Can Using the Light Phone III Help Cure Brain Rot? – The New York Times by Brian X. Chen in New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/technology/personaltech/light-phone-iii-brain-rot.html An interesting review, honestly, just keep your iPhone and remove all the shit from it. |
| Rachel Reeves must break her fiscal rules. Better now than later by Phillip Inman in the Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/05/rachel-reeves-must-break-her-fiscal-rules-better-now-than-later?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other The Canadian Liberals seem like they may have learned from Labour’s screwup here when they announced their sort-of-budget this weekend… Maybe… |
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