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Thursday, 27 March 2025
Congestion Pricing is a Policy Miracle
Sam Deutsch: “And it’s not just the MTA - buses in New Jersey are seeing significantly faster travel times …”
Monday, 24 March 2025
Speculations at the Outer Bounds of the Constitutional Order
Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo: “The American fiscal economy consists of trillions of dollars being drawn out of the states and then being pumped right back into them as contracts, grants, various kinds of federal support for things like roads and infrastructure and finally programs of direct support like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.”
Friday, 21 March 2025
Is the Sleeping Giant Awakening?
Paul Krugman: “It’s not just the tariffs and Trump’s obvious support for Putin. I don’t know if Americans realize how big a shock it has been that European citizens are being arrested and detained by ICE. Suddenly it’s clear that America is not an ally, may not even be a democracy, and Europe must look after itself.”
Friday, 7 March 2025
Searching for settings in all the wrong places
Joe Rosensteel, Six Colors: “You might have a free trial of Apple TV+ from the purchase of new Apple hardware, or something else. Apple has decided that this is the second most important function of visiting Settings.”
America is at its weakest since the Civil War
Walter H. White Jr., The Contrarian: “One of the critical aspects of diplomacy is integrity.”
Thursday, 6 March 2025
It’s Up to Europe Now
Paul Krugman: “Like tens of millions of Americans, I hate the fact that we need to appeal to foreign leaders to do the right thing …”
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
European leaders brace for their ‘five-minutes-to-midnight’ nightmare summit
Clea Caulcutt, Jacopo Barigazzi, Gabriel Gavin and Giovanna Faggionato, Politico: “We have switched off the sun and now we need to pay everyday for the heating … Every day you need to pay for ammunition, at least for several years …”
Sunday, 16 February 2025
Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space
Hannah Devlin, The Guardian: “Einstein rings are a powerful tool for astronomers because they reveal objects that would otherwise be obscured from view and indicate the mass of the intermediate galaxy – including any hidden mass in the form of dark matter.”
Saturday, 15 February 2025
Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
Aisha Ahmad, The Conversation: “How could Canadians pay for this decades-long insurgency? The answer lies in every single historical example of the old adage: ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend.’”
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
This Ain’t The Apprentice. Stop Calling Them Firings. They’re Purges.
David Kurtz, Talking Points Memo: “There is really no such thing as unilateral mass ‘firings’ or ‘layoffs’ in the federal government, and yet most of the coverage headlines Trump’s purges using exactly those words. Unilateral is the key there. Congress can pass laws to cut funding, to eliminate positions, to zero out programs, but it hasn’t. The president is doing this on his own in contravention of the laws Congress has already passed to fund these positions and to give them civil service protections.”