Comparing current, seemingly random brutality deployed by federal agents in Minneapolis and St.Paul with repression and terror of regimes in history: Soviet KGB terror, for example, was fundamentally random. “A regime based on terror … deploys violence precisely to reinforce the message that anyone can be subjected to it.”
On the U.S. Supreme Court majority’s policy choices in Trump v. United States and Trump v. Anderson: “They’re not textual, they should not be constitutional, and they contradict the wiser judgment of the founders in key ways.”
A Poynter story takes a step back and considers the term used negatively to describe play-by-play style coverage of political campaigns and elections: how the comparison does and does not fit—and what it can reveal
Three weeks’ worth of articles: Obituaries, artificial intelligence, damaging storms, the case for charging genocide in Gaza, the viral Chabad tunnel story and online antisemitism, and housing—social in Vienna and enshittified at Airbnb
Jamelle Bouie makes a good argument for “a plain reading of Section 3”—and against objections to disqualifying Trump as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.