Waltz Departs the Group Chat, Trump Departs Reality

Michael Kosta continues coverage of Trump’s 100th day in office with reports from NewsNation’s town hall, where the president racially slighted Stephen A. Smith and Pam Bondi’s ridiculous claims about fentanyl deaths 

Procreation Obligation

Rebecca Foust You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust casts a cold eye on the pronatalism of today's religious conservatives.

Waiting for the Supply Shock

David Dayen The American Prospect
It’s coming, and we know approximately when. The economy contracted by 0.3 percent, and imports have contracted. Tariffs of 145 percent on China are a trade embargo for many sectors. China’s retaliatory measures are an embargo in the other direction.

Columbia Student Has Clear Message for Trump After Judge Frees Him

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling The New Republic
A federal judge freed Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student leader at Columbia University, who was part of the pro-Palestine protests. “The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,”