Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 27, 2025
by Tony Wikrent
Trump not violating any law
‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’
‘We’re Not Stopping’: Trump Border Czar Vows to Ignore Judges
[The Daily Beast, via MSN 03-18-2025]
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The government’s adding a makeup studio to the war room, the antitax movement shows some cracks, and more from The Lever this week.
Our deep dive into Doctor Who S02E03: "The Well" includes the biggest easter egg of all, dominating the entire episode from start to finish.
This week's Doctor Who: Unleashed dives into the making of this season's third episode, "The Well," and its approach to old-school horror.
. Nationalekonomer hävdar ofta att det inte gör så mycket om de antaganden som deras modeller bygger på är realistiska eller ej. Vad som betyder något är om de prognoser som modellerna resulterar i visar sig vara riktiga eller ej. Om det verkligen är så, är den enda slutsats vi kan dra att dessa modeller […]
Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday returns! Check out a preview of what's ahead with Showrunner Russell T. Davies's Doctor Who S02E04: "Lucky Day."
Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 3: "The Well" returns to classic Sci-Fi horror with clear homages to genre movies such as Alien that inspired it.
States are cutting out the medicine middleman, an Ivy League college fixes its math, questionable opioid prescriptions are set right, and vacations just got simpler.
In the first of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Sherrilyn Ifill, Pamela Karlan, and Laurence H. Tribe for a conversation on corruption and the rule of law. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
The post Constitutional Crises appeared first on The New York Review of Books.
Political philosophers are criticised for their idealism, but when it comes to immigration they try to be ‘realistic’. Their aspiration to ‘realism’ often leads to nationalism (which I have analysed elsewhere as an implicit but heavy bias), but I still don’t understand why they aspire to realism on this issue. Philosophers have neither voters to […]
Rubio wants to dismantle the only internal sounding board for critics of Israel — and the only place those criticisms might’ve had any teeth.
The post Marco Rubio Silences Every Last Little Criticism of Israel at State Department appeared first on The Intercept.
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We live in a weird time: the accusation of anti-semitism has never been more common and the consequences have never been more severe, but the accusation has never been more likely to be a compliment.
In most cases today, if someone is accused of anti-semitism, they are being accused of being against genocide. Against the mass murder of ci civilians. Against children being deliberately shot in the head and against prisoners being raped to death
To be sure, real anti-semites exist, but if someone hasn’t been accused to anti-semitism, one knows they have no ethics and are either a wimp, unwilling to even say “genocide is bad” or an evil person who thinks genocide is good.
Trump regulators could boost the power and number of SpaceX satellites, buttressing a space armada that’s suppressing competition, blinding telescopes, and endangering spaceflight.
“U.S. texts Barnard employees and asks if they are Jewish…. The texts, which faculty members said appeared to have gone to nearly all Barnard staff members, appear to be part of an aggressive new tactic by the Trump administration to collect reports of alleged antisemitism at Barnard.”
— New York Times, 4/23/25
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In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.
The post Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It. appeared first on The Intercept.