Recommended Reading (3/27/25)

The missing children of Syria: Hidden in orphanages under Assad, where are they now? (NPR)

This Part of Mozambique Was Like Paradise. Now It’s a Terrorist Hotbed. (NYT)

US shutdown of HIV/Aids funding ‘could lead to 500,000 deaths in South Africa’ (The Guardian)

This will kill people: The VA will deny gender dysphoria treatment to new patients (NPR)

Trump Administration Cites Alien Enemies Act as It Plans New Extraditions (NYT)

Why Right-Wing Influencers Keep Saying the Jews Killed JFK (The Atlantic gift link)

Well, it's something: NH lawmakers back off plan to defund state library but propose other funding cuts (NHPR)

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. (ProPublica)

Rebecca Solnit: Stand Your Ground. Plant Some Flowers On It Too (Meditations in an Emergency)

In New Hampshire, the public education fight offers a clear view of the state of the union (NH Bulletin)

Baseball is back!! Every Opening Day pitching matchup, ranked (MLB)

These are always so cool: Winners of the 2025 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest (The Atlantic)

Recommended Reading (3/25/25)

!!! The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans (The Atlantic gift link)

Child deaths surge amid ‘Gazafication’ of West Bank, report says (The Guardian)

This will cause so much harm: House passes bill allowing businesses to separate bathrooms, locker rooms by biological sex (NH Bulletin)

As will this: Republicans target NH’s child advocate and other small state agencies in budget cuts (NHPR)

‘Terrified’ Federal Workers Are Clamming Up (The Atlantic gift link)

Important: our place in the justice paradox (Life Is a Sacred Text)

Three Months After Missouri Voted to Make Abortion Legal, Access Is Still Being Blocked (ProPublica)

Why the good news about the mpox outbreak of 2025 isn't really good after all (NPR)

I always love logistics: Have You Seen This Pilgrim? Lost in the Throngs of the Kumbh Mela. (NYT)

! Archaeologists discover 3,500 year-old tomb of ‘missing pharaoh’ in Egypt (The Guardian)

I like him so far! Meet Dave Sims, the new voice of the Yankees who isn’t trying to be John Sterling (The Athletic)

Crime and the City Treks High Into the Himalayas (CrimeReads)

Recommended Reading (3/24/25)

Bucha Has a Question: Does Trump Remember the Russian Massacre? (NYT)

Anne Applebaum: The End of the Postwar World (The Atlantic gift link)

‘Now is the time of monsters’: young Berliners despair at far-right surge (The Guardian)

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. (ProPublica)

This is so scary: NH schools advised to roll back transgender protections to comply with Trump mandates (NHPR)

War heroes are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge (NPR)

Nova Scotia's Billion-Dollar Lobster Wars (The New Yorker)

Why are 'fireworks' coming from a black hole? This is what scientists say (NPR)

The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change (Vox)

The robo ump could cause a unexpected casualty: the TV strike zone box (The Athletic)

Whoever wrote this very serious article deserves an award: Palmerston, the British Foreign Service Cat, Takes Up New Post in Bermuda (NYT)

In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane (LitHub)

Recommended Reading (3/20/25)

Hamas’s Theater of the Macabre (The Atlantic gift link)

High Above Chernobyl, Workers Grapple With Ice, Fire and Nuclear Fears (NYT)

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. (ProPublica)

A Republican-backed bill would upend voter registration. Here are 8 things to know (NPR)

US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists (The Guardian)

The Erasing of American Science (The Atlantic gift link)

Her state bans gender-affirming care for teenagers. So she travels 450 miles for it (NPR)

How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion (NYT)

Harrowing trends: how endangered-species researchers find hope in the dark (Nature)

What Does It Take to Actually Cook Like a Tradwife? (Eater)

At the Webster Apartments: One of Manhattan’s Last All-Women’s Boarding Houses (The Paris Review)

Patrick Bailey, Luddite (Complimentary) (FanGraphs)

Recommended Reading (3/19/25)

Yair Rosenberg: The Gaza Cease-Fire Was Always Going to End (The Atlantic gift link)

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence (ProPublica)

‘Shadow fleets’ and subaquatic sabotage: are Europe’s undersea internet cables under attack? (The Guardian)

A military vet and a scientist were securing America's food system. Trump fired them (NPR)

Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval (NYT)

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right (The Atlantic gift link)

The Living Fires Of Eastern Romania (RFE)

‘Resilience’ is key for New Hampshire farms — but state support of grant program is in doubt (NH Bulletin)

This was really interesting: Jews, Gender and Assimilation (Life Is a Sacred Text)

The Decline of the Rio Grande (The New Yorker)

For the Yankees’ team barber, a changing policy opens a new realm of possibilities (The Athletic)

! British Library acquires torn-out drafts of Edward Elgar masterpiece (The Guardian)

Recommended Reading (3/18/25)

Live Updates: Israel Carries Out Deadly Strikes in Gaza and Warns of Intensified Attacks (NYT)

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency (ProPublica)

Venezuelan mothers organize on chat group to fight Guantánamo detentions (NPR)

Meanwhile: Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Only (The Atlantic)

Trump vowed to champion US workers - the reality has been a relentless assault (The Guardian)

Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa (Climate & Capitalism)

'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies (BBC)

The White Sox are coming off baseball’s worst season. Will Venable signed up anyway (The Athletic)

You’ll Never Guess What Spencer Schwellenbach Will Do Next (FanGraphs)

The British Museum’s Blockbuster Scandals (The New Yorker)

Philadelphia: Plenty of Crime Fiction, Not So. Much Brotherly Love (CrimeReads)

Winners of the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards (The Atlantic)

Recommended Reading (3/13/25)

Good, they should not vote for this particular measure: Senate Democrats Balk at Funding Extension, Raising the Risk of a Shutdown (NYT)

Very important, from Adam Serwer: Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run (The Atlantic gift link)

This was great: 'Have you no decency?': Keating calls out GOP lawmaker for misgendering trans colleague (WBUR)

This is... not great (electorally): Shaheen says she won’t run for reelection, ending long political career (NHPR)

Extremely bad: Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division (ProPublica)

Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says (NPR)

Ugh: Republicans push Medicaid work requirements through the New Hampshire Senate (NH Bulletin)

Colombia risks return to violent past, says architect of landmark peace deal (The Guardian)

How Russia's Warplanes Get Their 'Brain Power' From The West, Despite Sanctions (RFE)

A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise (The Atlantic)

The Backlist: Margot Douaihy and Polly Stewart Revisit Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Edith’s Diary’ (CrimeReads)

Why was Red Sox OF Rob Refsnyder name-dropped on TV’s ‘Reacher’? He’s as confused as anyone (The Athletic)

Recommended Reading (3/12/25)

What went wrong? Israel's spy agency lists failures in preventing Oct. 7 attack (NPR)

Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum (The Guardian)

Egypt Fears Syria’s Revolutionary Fervor Could Be Contagious (NYT)

U.S. Claims Immigrants Held at Guantanamo Are “Worst of the Worst.” Their Families Say They’re Being Unfairly Targeted. (ProPublica)

The Spies Are Shown the Door (The Atlantic)

New Hampshire’s Medicaid program faces threats on both the federal and state level (NH Bulletin)

New lawsuit challenges Trump's DEI restrictions, citing fears of NH educators (NHPR)

It Took Decades, but Japan’s Working Women Are Making Progress (NYT)

Purim starts tomorrow night and here's some fascinating background reading: Esther: The Patron, uh, Saint of Crypto-Jewry (Life Is a Sacred Text)

'No one is Gerrit Cole': Yanks to lean on Fried in Cole's absence (MLB)

Alan Hollinghurst's Lost England (The Atlantic)

Every word of this is incredible: Ostriches, butt cheeks and relentless energy: How Austin Hedges became an indispensable MLB teammate (The Athletic)

Recommended Reading (3/10/25)

Kurdish militant group PKK declares ceasefire after decades of conflict with Turkey (NPR)

Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy (ProPublica)

RFK Jr. Won. Now What? (The Atlantic)

Effort to dismantle NH childhood vaccine-buying program moves forward (NHPR)

You don't say: Elon Musk’s mass government cuts could make private companies millions (The Guardian)

The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only (Slate)

How Kate Scott built a résumé of many firsts, from broadcaster to Madden play-by-play (The Athletic)

This coastal tribe has a radical vision for fighting sea-level rise in the Hamptons (Vox)

From Ancient Charcoal, Hints of Wildfires to Come (NYT)

Labors of Love: Eli Cranor on Education, Empathy and Experience (CrimeReads)

How Many Times Are You Going to Make Garrett Stubbs Explain Himself (Baseball Prospectus)

A Day in the Life of the World's Fastest Supercomputer (Nature)

Recommended Reading (3/4/25)

Exclusive: Trump administration drops work on stronger building codes for disasters (NPR)

This is so scary: Bills aimed at transgender rights move forward in NH State House (NHPR)

The Cruel Attack on USAID (The Atlantic)

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” (ProPublica)

The Biggest Issue Behind the New York Prison Guard Strike (New York Focus)

How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence (NYT)

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests (The Guardian)

Lawmakers in at Least Seven States Seek Expanded Abortion Access (ProPublica)

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died (NPR)

The Shape of Funk to Come: Previewing This Season’s New Pitches (FanGraphs)

London’s first Roman basilica found under office block (The Guardian)

Echo, Echo: Death, Rebirth, and New Age Music (LARB)

Recommended Reading (3/3/25)

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (NYT)

Trump’s Assault on USAID Makes Project 2025 Look Like Child’s Play (The Atlantic)

Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In (ProPublica)

A pediatrician warns of 'long-lasting' consequences of RFK Jr. leading HHS (NPR)

Trump’s aid cuts will lead to a surge in propaganda and misinformation, say press freedom groups (The Guardian)

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler (The Atlantic)

How Extreme Weather Scrambled a Lunar New Year Tradition in Vietnam (NYT)

‘It’s a big deal’: Current and former Yankees react to the team’s new facial hair policy (The Athletic)

The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye (NPR)

Who's Afraid of Judith Butler? (The New Yorker)

What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images (Quanta)

Queer Historical Romance Novels: A Starter Pack (NYT)

Recommended Reading (2/28/25)

Anne Applebaum: The New Rasputins (The Atlantic)

Key takeaways from Starmer's talks with Trump (BBC)

Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa (The Guardian)

The MAGA War on Speech (NYT)

Who’s Running the Defense Department? (The Atlantic)

How Trump’s Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire (ProPublica)

How changes to a CDC vaccine panel under Kennedy could reshape policy (NPR)

HB 524 would repeal the New Hampshire Vaccine Association. But what does the NHVA actually do? (NH Bulletin)

The Hidden-Pregnancy Experiment (The New Yorker)

Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably (NPR)

Robot umps are here: What MLB players need to know to navigate ABS this spring (The Athletic)

The expensive business of quoting poetry (The Spectator)

Recommended Reading (2/25/25)

Big challenges loom for Germany's Merz in divided country (BBC)

A must-read (with a gift link so you can): The Government's Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified (The Atlantic)

The USDA fired staffers working on bird flu. Now it's trying to reverse course (NPR)

“We Feel Terrorized”: What EPA Employees Say About the Decision to Stay or Go Under Trump (ProPublica)

DNC chair outlines pro-worker, union focus in first memo in fight against Trump (The Guardian)

ACLU of NH investigating reports that Berlin prison will be used for immigration detainees (NHPR)

Democracy in Eastern Europe Faces Another Crisis (The Atlantic)

The U.S. is trying to unravel a hacking plot that targeted climate activists (NPR)

Yankees legend taking Max Fried under his wing: ‘Full-circle moment’ (The Athletic)

Casual Viewing: Why Netflix looks like that (n+1)

Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age? (NYT)

Nev Fountain on Writing a Detective Novel About Fandom (CrimeReads)

Recommended Reading (2/24/25)

Zelensky Sets Somber Tone as Ukraine Marks War Anniversary (NYT)

New German leader signals seismic shift in transatlantic relations (BBC)

Presidents May Not Unilaterally Dismantle Government Agencies (The Atlantic)

Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas Deserved a Better World (Kveller)

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump (ProPublica)

Courts block Trump's DOGE actions — chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategy (NPR)

NH Republicans introduce bill allowing trans people to be banned from bathrooms, locker rooms (NH Bulletin)

‘In Alaska, it’s Denali’: senators move to counter Trump’s mountain name order (The Guardian)

Maha Kumbh Mela: The Largest Gathering in the World (The Atlantic)

!!! Yankees announce changes to team’s long-standing facial hair policy (The Athletic)

After 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage (NPR)

The Black Spectacles: John Dickson Carr’s Most Unusual Crime Novel (CrimeReads)

Recommended Reading (2/19/25)

Jordan's military is test-running an air bridge for aid to Gaza (NPR)

Europe’s Leaders, Dazed by an Ally Acting Like an Adversary, Recalculate (NYT)

Trump disrupting US bird flu response as outbreak worsens (The Guardian)

Privacy advocates file lawsuit to stop DOGE from peeking at IRS taxpayer data (NPR)

‘Not My President’s Day’: Thousands Gather in Protest Against Trump (The Atlantic)

Dartmouth researchers brace for Trump’s NIH funding cuts (NH Bulletin)

The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far Trump’s DEI Purge Will Go (ProPublica)

This is a good explainer: MLB to test automated ball-strike challenge system during spring games (MLB.com)

First Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after desegregation dies (NPR)

The English Apple Is Disappearing (The New Yorker)

Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows (The Guardian)

Recommended Reading (2/18/25)

Who's who in US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia? (BBC)

An Israeli raid of a famous Palestinian bookstore stokes censorship fears (NPR)

An important read from Anne Applebaum: There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing (The Atlantic)

Of course: To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class (ProPublica)

I actually agree with this and the baseball analogy they use is delightful: Bill would block undeclared voters from 'same-day voting' in NH primary elections (NHPR)

This made me tear up: We Have Always Been Here (Life Is a Sacred Text)

On the frontline against bird flu, egg farmers fear they're losing the battle (NPR)

Kew’s rescue mission: arborists head to Scotland after hundreds of trees and plants felled by Storm Éowyn (The Guardian)

Noisy, Gaudy and Spiritual: Young Pilgrims Embrace an Ancient Goddess (NYT)

Braves’ Spencer Strider is motivated and stoic as he returns from second elbow surgery (The Athletic)

Rise of the Nanomachines (The New Yorker)

Queering Crime Stories: Establishing a New Order in Mysteries and Thrillers (CrimeReads)

Recommended Reading (2/17/25)

How these suburban moms in Ukraine manage grief by training to down Russian drones (NPR)

This Is What It's Like To Be A Journalist Under Taliban Rule (RFE)

In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law (ProPublica)

Oh uh that sounds great: Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons (NPR)

Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies (The Atlantic)

NH doctors warn against bill that could gut childhood vaccine-buying program (NHPR)

Musk-linked group offered $5m for proof of voter fraud – and came up with nothing (The Guardian)

Everything is so scary right now: Park Service erases 'transgender' on Stonewall website, uses the term 'LGB' movement (NPR)

Secret 'sky island' rainforest saved by new discoveries (BBC)

!! Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera (The Guardian)

A Brilliant Neglected Novel About the Search for a Lost Older Lover (The New Yorker)

Amateur Historians Heard Tales of a Lost Tudor Palace. Then, They Dug It Up. (NYT)

Recommended Reading (2/14/25)

Trump’s Gaza plan unites jihadist and far-right circles, experts warn (The Guardian)

“We Will Fight Back”: Aid Workers Fear Closing a Camp on the Arizona Border Will Endanger Migrants (ProPublica)

What's happening with the anti-HIV program PEPFAR? It depends whom you ask (NPR)

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like (The Atlantic)

Some good news! ‘Right-to-work’ legislation stalls again in NH House (NHPR)

After delay, CDC releases data signaling bird flu spread undetected in cows and people (NPR)

A big step forward in New Hampshire’s efforts to reduce food waste (NH Bulletin)

Medicaid will cover traditional healing practices for Native Americans in 4 states (NPR)

Why Is True Crime Still Negating Black Victims and Their Loved Ones From the Story? (CrimeReads)

Is it Possible to Appreciate Patrick Bailey? (Baseball Prospectus)

Dust to Dust (Eater)

Is “Love Is Blind” a Toxic Workplace? (The New Yorker)

Recommended Reading (2/13/25)

‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan (The Guardian)

Voices from the new breadlines in Syria: Who's waiting? And why? (NPR)

Jamelle Bouie: If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is (NYT)

The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway. (Pro Publica)

New Hampshire teenagers challenge Trump’s ban on transgender girls in girls’ sports (NH Bulletin)

Adam Serwer: The Attack on Trans Rights Won’t End There (The Atlantic)

RFK Jr. says he'll fix the overdose crisis. Critics say his plan is risky (NPR)

A list of half a million names shines new light on Dutch collaboration with Nazis (NPR)

Cholera is making a comeback — and the world doesn’t have enough vaccines (Vox)

Fascinating: Piecing Together the Secrets of the Stasi (The New Yorker)

Climate change could affect fall colors. 35 years of data from NH might provide insights on how. (NHPR)

Where did MLB’s Latin American starting pitchers go? (The Athletic)

Crime Fiction in Sweden's Fastest Growing City: Malmö (CrimeReads)

Recommended Reading (2/11/25)

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. (ProPublica)

Trump is weighing big cuts to the U.S. Education Department (NPR)

LGBTQ rights groups urge hospitals not to panic after Trump order on gender-affirming care (NH Bulletin)

This is going to hurt lots of people who like to think they won't be hurt by most policy changes: The Trump administration has stopped work at the CFPB. Here's what the agency does (NPR)

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows (The Atlantic)

Dozens of prisoners allege a culture of violence by guards at federal facility in Virginia (NPR)

Health experts alarmed at new overdose drug marketed to WMass police departments (The Shoestring)

Long-lost anti-fascist mural from 1930s restored and back on show in Mexico (The Guardian)

This Book Helped Save the Planet—but Created a Very Harmful Myth (Slate)

Getting some space: UNH-built instrument to observe galactic matter is readying for launch (NHPR)

His Book Was Repeatedly Banned. Fighting For It Shaped His Life. (NYT)

What It's Like to Be a Beat Writer (FanGraphs)