March 2025

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 …”