News on Opinions, Odds & Ends

April 19th - April 25th, 2025

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Saturday/Sunday - April 19th - 20th

• They sold their likenesses to AI companies. Now they regret it

• Marijuana holiday 4/20 coincides with Easter and Passover this year. Here’s what to know

• Erdoğan Sets His Sights on Israel

• What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies

• Migrants Are Heading South

• Trump Takes Aim at American Institutions

• Grandparenting Is Changing

• A Strangely Moving Cartoon Show

• What If China Wins the Trade War?

• Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

• The Last of Us Didn’t Soften the Blow

 

Monday - April 21st

• You’ve Probably Already Met Your Next Best Friend

• How to Fuel Up

• The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE

• The Papacy Is Forever Changed

• The Real Legacy of Pope Francis

• Is Indonesia destined to be a footnote in Africa’s growth story?

• ‘You Think We’re Afraid of America?’

• What It Means to Tell the Truth About America

• Joan Didion’s Books Should Have Been Enough

• The Worst Job in America

• Pete Hegseth Is Running Out of Excuses

• The Gen Z Lifestyle Subsidy

• Why Trump Is Standing by Hegseth, for Now

 

Tuesday - April 22nd

• Why Narcissists Emerge as Leaders Even in Childhood

• Hard Choices: Should You Try Marina Abramovic’s Longevity Method?

• A Ticking Clock on American Freedom

• Who Really Runs America?

• The Force That Holds Trump’s Coalition Together

• Pete Hegseth’s Patriotic Duty Is to Resign

• Dear James: Never Too Old for a Barbaric Yawp

• Photographing the Beauty of the North

• Who Reads Entire Lawsuits for Fun?

• Progressive Christianity’s Bleak Future

• What the Democratic Infighting Reveals

• Good Job, MAHA

• 'Doomsday mum' Lori Vallow Daybell convicted of conspiring to kill her estranged husband in 2019

• What to know about Harvey Weinstein's rape and sexual assault retrial

• Meet Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sister Randi, who once worked at Facebook

• What Trump should be making great again are the lives of Americans

 

Wednesday - April 23rd

• The Supreme Court Has No Army

• They Dreamed of Hitler

• Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks

• Two Murder Mysteries’ Surprising Window Into Human Genius

• Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment?

• Tim Walz Looks Into the Void

• The Crises of Due Process

• Trump Is Vulnerable on Immigration

• Ryan Coogler Didn’t Want to Hide Anymore

• The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color

• Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia

• Heads, Ukraine Loses. Tails, Russia Wins.

• Inside the Fight Over Trump’s Foreign Policy

• Why now is the time to find power in "otherness"

• ‘Honeymoon over’: Americans desert Trump

• ‘THE WORLD SHOULD WORRY’: Branson reveals Donald Trump fears

• Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo rape retrial opens with added allegations from a former model

• Trump can learn from Xi how to make a country and its people great again

 

Thursday - April 24th

• The Knowledge That Brings True Happiness

• Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End

• Congressional Republicans Might Set Off the Debt Bomb

• Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States

• ‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’

• Elon Musk’s Luck Runs Out

• The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

• The Critic Who Translated Jazz Into Plain English

• Trump’s Tariffs Are Coming for Your Chili Crisp

• The Project 2025 Presidency

• Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council

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Friday - April 25th

• What Would Be Worse Than a Recession?

• I’ve Seen How This Plays Out for Ukraine

• Oklahoma Is Asking the Supreme Court to Ignore History

• My Near-Future Dystopia

• Finally, Someone Said It to Joe Rogan’s Face

• The Coming Economic Nightmare

• Photos of the Week: Pony Run, Corgi Race, Rocket War

• How to Say No to a Would-Be Autocrat

• ‘All We Wanted to Do Was Play Video Games’

• The Conversation That Moviegoers Don’t Need to Be Having

• Ben-Gvir Can’t Bring Himself to Pretend

• How the Trump Administration Flipped on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

• The Last True Private Realm

• AI Executives Promise Cancer Cures. Here’s the Reality

• What Porn Did to American Culture

• Stop doing this with your phone immediately

• ‘We’ve never been asked’: Uncomfortable truth about immigration debate

• 8yo girl makes 'astounding' discovery of tiny, rare seashell at museum

• How the public’s shift on immigration paved the way for Trump’s crackdown

• They say they want Americans to have more babies. What's beneath the surface?