M. GESSEN is good every time in the New York Times.

OPINION

M. GESSEN

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/trump-higher-education.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

https://youtu.be/KVPJdZyf3Pc?si=qpN2Mzabgr_Y61h0

 

Trump’s Attack on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid with Jon ‘Bowzer’ Bauman

https://youtu.be/Q7v_kfDZYcY?si=QX40M2t2DdSmeOLd

 

JANET YELLEN on CNN today regarding Trump’s moves. 

https://youtu.be/lTI9FDSLv8s?si=HXMVBGPkNvEWMo90

 

Trump Signs Orders Punishing Those Who Opposed His 2020 Election Lies

The president targeted two officials from his first administration and an elite law firm as part of his campaign for retribution.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-executive-orders-law-firm-krebs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

The University President Willing to Fight Trump (NYT)

https://youtu.be/2imFBaRbXww?si=P3asYBpP9Qy8fBLU

 

There’s Nothing Real About Trump’s ‘Real America’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/trump-deporation-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Zadie Smith on the magic of Tracy Chapman: ‘She didn’t just look like us – she was singing our songs’

The novelist was just 12 when the ex-busker stunned a mammoth crowd at the Free Nelson Mandela concert – and sent everyone racing to Woolworths for her astonishing debut album. Its simple, honest, perfect songs of protest have mesmerised the writer ever since

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/31/zadie-smith-tracy-chapman-debut-album-free-nelson-mandela-concert

 

WHY THE COURT HIT THE BRAKES ON SCHOOL DESEGREGATION

Two decades after Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court struck down a desegregation order—-and paved the way for today’s retrenchment efforts. 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/the-containment-michelle-adams-book-review

 

• Jamie Raskin, the Democratic representative of Maryland, addressed the crowd in Washington DC. Raskin said: “We’ve got the right to protest for what is right without being arrested, deported or fired. We’ve got the right to read the books we want… We’ve even got the right to call the president deranged from crashing our economy, destroying $6tn of wealth…and the press has the right to call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico.”

 

 A NYT VIDEO: 

Trump vs. the World: Understanding Tariffs and Their Consequences 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/podcasts/100000010083680/trump-tariffs-markets-roundtable.html?smid=url-share

 

Bruce Pearl explains the impact of three Jewish coaches in Final Four 'wearing their faith on their sleeves'

https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/bruce-pearl-explains-the-impact-of-three-jewish-coaches-in-final-four-wearing-their-faith-on-their-sleeves/

‘I’m Not Scared.’ Jeffrey Goldberg on Potential Backlash After Signal Leak (Amanpour and Company) 

https://youtu.be/sI9ywPj58vA?si=ybaQZatvX2rXpMBN

 

Cory Booker’s Speech Is the Broad Trump Indictment Democrats Need

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/booker-filibuster-democrats.html

 

The Most Important Judge in America

 

James Boasberg isn’t a “radical left lunatic,” and that makes him all the more challenging for Trump.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/boasberg-trump-alien-enemies-act.html

 

CARVILLE: Trump collapse happened quicker than I imagined

https://youtu.be/jhT2QXc-TIc?si=VocRRJikknaWROJh

  

WHY BOB WOODWARD WORRIES ABOUT TRUMP’S AMERICA (Washington Post)

https://youtu.be/b5Zy5YQ2WFY?si=0xjtZjssUVF4W2Bp

 

 

They Are America’s Most Powerful Law Firms. Their Silence Is Deafening

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/trump-law-firms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds as he pushes Democrats to ‘fight oligarchy’

The populist message of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ ”Fighting Oligarchy” tour has resonated with voters frustrated by President Trump’s agenda — and the Democratic Party’s muddled response.

https://apple.news/A4NBpl3-SSt6_sZZzV9-u0g

 

How a student’s friendship with Auburn coach Bruce Pearl gave him the strength to beat leukemia.

https://youtu.be/DYf1F1PineA?si=-J_klBfRTzOKr-7j

ARE WE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS? (A video)

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010063017/are-we-in-a-constitutional-crisis.html?smid=url-share

 DESOLATION ROW

https://youtu.be/hUvcWXTIjcU?si=xAk-WPDX53pZvrJe

 

Where to start with: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The award-winning Nigerian author and Beyoncé-sampled essayist is back with her first novel in a decade, which makes now a great time to get to know her work

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/where-to-start-with-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie

EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING I GO OUT WITH MY SIGN. I get up just before 6:30. Nice to have a reason. I feel lucky. 

 

LOSING BIG: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling (Amanpour and Company)

https://youtu.be/lm3terxAy34?si=WJSAlppNoZDJRgsr

 

Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news

Jonathan Freedland

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/donald-trump-crashing-us-economy-fake-news

 

MAYOR MICHELLE WU and the Boston Pops Perform ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ at Symphony Hall

https://youtu.be/omxAby8anJ0?si=JqDLItqOf2ZRk5dD

Democracy Dies in Dumbness (NYT, BRET STEPHENS)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/opinion/trump-tariffs-recession-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Washington Post Columnist Resigns After Paper Spiked Criticism of Jeff Bezos

Ruth Marcus, a longtime columnist at The Post, said its publisher refused to run her critique of the new focus for the paper’s opinion section.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/business/media/washington-post-ruth-marcus-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Paul Gosar gets TOLD OFF by Boston Mayor…

https://youtu.be/ze3SFLTYEQg?si=MtIe9o2xfIwSk2jt

At Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC: TEACH-IN ON CIVIL RIGHTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE RULE OF LAW 

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=7d2a1840a05ccf06&hl=en-us&q=politics+and+prose&udm=7&fbs=ABzOT_CWdhQLP1FcmU5B0fn3xuWpA-dk4wpBWOGsoR7DG5zJBsxayPSIAqObp_AgjkUGqel8VwMQFMOBYskRuItxBMvLau2qr56-OrwA8M_V6KufUCg1Giu_OO__-zqGxvwCOOMxtac_I0VQGtuGOxxROMa7WB0BIWI7jl9JZbQMmFGUn1pGE4MmMQcXshtfPVT6Yg0F7pqiawXTVcIazUn_1R07KwVKTg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvsZDm6vuLAxXUrokEHXtmChUQtKgLegQIGRAB&biw=1128&bih=775&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6c4d302e,vid:9JBe0UMJ_9w,st:0

CANADA, the NORTHERN OUTPOST OF SANITY

Justin Trudeau, in his final week as Prime Minister, tells Donald Trump to shove it. (In ‘The New Yorker’)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/canada-the-northern-outpost-of-sanity

 Rep. Daniel Goldman of New York has sounded good against Trump. 

 CYNTHIA ERIVO. ‘Alfie’

https://youtu.be/2-he6twMEF0?si=nMCFeLi04-v7dAPi

 RHIANNON GIDDENS and JUSTIN ROBINSON

https://youtu.be/neC_9OPzOq8?si=Xr8e4UWVhSMk_ZK2

 

How Underground Schools Across the South Built the Civil Rights Movement (Amanpour and Company)

https://youtu.be/o85dvpYmyBE?si=6YiV3Te6S7QHqSBu

 SMART GUY.

 

DON LEMON’S NEW DAILY, up to the minute show. It’s on YouTube. I like his take and his delivery. This one is good. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/6eELJs3QfQ4?si=hbtYh5_UEjBEzR6Z

Why Aren’t We in the Streets?

On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/why-arent-we-in-the-streets

PBS NEWSHOUR.  Timothy Snyder.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/historian-analyzes-devolving-relations-between-u-s-and-ukraine-after-oval-office-spat

 ON THE SUBWAY WALLS

Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’

Opinion editor leaves as Amazon executive and newspaper owner says ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion

 ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’ by Barry Blitt

 

‘A true free-speech emergency’: alarm over Trump’s ‘chilling’ attacks on media

Warning comes as FCC, chaired by Trump ally and Project 2025 author, orders investigations into US media groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/trump-free-speech-media-attack

 IN ‘THE NEW YORKER’

THIS AFTERNOON IN MANHATTAN, I happened upon a march that was protesting for things that Trump is against, like congestion pricing. ‘FUCK TRUMP’ was the loud chant of the marchers. The photo just shows part of it. I was caught unaware and just snapped a couple shots with my phone. I raised my fist to them in solidarity. 

 

IF TRUMP DISMANTLES THE DEPT of EDUCATION, who will pay the biggest price? (‘Amanpour and Company’)

https://youtu.be/Xig4HAaKyKo?si=qtzlf8MCmIEW1Xk6

 

Trump’s Poll Numbers Are Eroding and Could Collapse Over Inflation (‘NEW YORK’)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-approval-rating-polls-inflation.html