Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs

The guys who insist on ending the separation of church and state would like the church to stay out of the state.

Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.

As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. Eric Klinenberg considers infrastructure that doesn’t just displace water but soaks it in. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/amer9l

Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.

As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park.

As the planet gets hotter, cities around the world are experiencing rain storms with record-smashing intensity.

I spent the last few months visiting places -Copenhagen, Hoboken, & NYC- that have adopted a counterintuitive idea: the safest city is one that can take water in. In @newyorker.com

Yes and yes!

How can you even tell who’s on the Chicago Bulls at this point?

Do you have to be a social scientist to know how funny this is?

Appeals court strikes down Trump’s tariffs as illegal but leaves them in place Trump’s cornerstone economic policy faced another challenge as a federal appeals court ruled he did not have the authority under an emergency powers act to impose them.

*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.

“Drill baby drill” is a climate policy.

Gutting the EPA and FEMA is a climate policy.

Cutting access to climate and weather data is a climate policy.

Taxing renewables is a climate policy.

Defunding NSF, NOAA, and NASA is climate policy.

Watching families & communities grieve is a consequence.

America’s great research universities were not invented in Silicon Valley garages or cooked up by venture capitalists. For centuries, they’ve been built by scholars, bolstered by benefactors, and scaled up by the state.

The government is now trying to destroy them. The damage will be profound.

Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

What if - and hear me out on this - algorithms are a way of suppressing voices and ideas that oligarchs don't like?

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

Do you value your library?

Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries.

Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.

Huge night here at NYU. An undergrad trying to fix their grade accidentally discovered how to email 11,000 instructors on a secret group email list, unifying the faculty like no one before. I have hundreds of email replies in my inbox. And apparently Onions, the puppy, has just been granted tenure.