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.
A wild and terrifying story from the New York Times that offers a rare look at both human trafficking and the operations of a criminal gang running online scams.