The Mad King’s Madness Deepens     Paul Krugman January 9, 2026 Paul Krugman Substack For Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, and out-of-control thugs into blue cities is, in effect, a war on Ame…

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ICE Out for Good Coalition Announces Nationwide Weekend of Action     Public Citizen January 9, 2026 Public Citizen In less than 24 hours after the announcement, there are already 1000 events anticipated nationwide in response to the killing of Renee Nicol…

NY Takes Baby Steps Toward Free Child Care     Jessica Gould, Jimmy Vielkind, Andrew Giambrone and Walter Wuthmann January 9, 2026 Gothamist The launch of “2-Care” will start in “high-need areas,” building on the city’s existing pre-K and 3-K programs. NYS s…

The 5 Stages of the ‘Enshittification’ of Academic Publishing     Martina Linnenluecke and Carl Rhodes January 5, 2026 The Conversation Enshittification isn’t confined to the online world. It’s now visible in academic publishing. The same forces that hollo…

Portside Culture Writing My Country     Beau Beausoleil Poet Beau Beausoleil asks what happens when the crew on the "boat of liberty," a lifeboat bearing the survivors of other times and wrecks, gives up. ,   Raising the oars of our …

ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder     David Dayen January 7, 2026 The American Prospect As a killing in Minneapolis is documented the law clearly stipulates federal agents do not have universal immunity. Federal officers are not, merely because they ar…

How Did Astoria Become So Socialist?     Naaman Zhou January 6, 2026 The New Yorker One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People…

Trump’s Childcare Funding Freezes Are Going To Hit All Kids Hard     Grace Segers January 8, 2026 The New Republic The administration added new strings for states to receive funding. This could have ripple effects for all households, not just those with lo…

Policies of Denial     Sara Roy, interviewed by Max Nelson January 3, 2026 The New York Review of Books “What I sense most powerfully from my friends in Gaza is a feeling of abandonment. Quiet is not the absence of conflict nor is it peace.” Plans for the …

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