by jpitney | Jun 13, 2025 | Economic Policy, Trade
Ana Swanson and Alan Rappeport at NYT: Washing machines, refrigerators and other common household appliances made with steel parts will soon be subject to expanded tariffs, the Commerce Department said Thursday. The department said in a notice that levies would take...
by jpitney | Jun 12, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Violence
David Bauder at AP: More than two dozen journalists have been injured or roughed up while covering protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, leading press freedom groups to question whether law enforcement has been deliberately targeting reporters on the...
by jpitney | Jun 11, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Journalism
Isabella Simonetti and Katherine Blunt at WSJ: The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers. Chatbots are replacing Google searches, eliminating the need to click on blue links and tanking referrals to news sites. As a result, traffic that publishers relied on...
by jpitney | Jun 10, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Journalism, Journalists
A list in progress (updated June 11, 2025) Nate Weisberg `24 — editor, Washington Monthly Chandler Presson `21— Interiors Market Editor, Modern Luxury Lery Hiciano `20 — staff writer, Taipei Times Blaise Malley `20 — freelance Torrey Hart `19 — newsletters...
by jpitney | Jun 10, 2025 | Budget, Bureaucracy, Volunteering
Judge Deborah L Boardman, :Case 1:25-cv-01363-DLB Document 148 Filed 06/05/25 AmeriCorps is the nation’s national service agency. AmeriCorps operates national service programs and funds service programs operated by states, local governments, nonprofits, and...
by jpitney | Jun 9, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists
During the DTLA melee, a cop shot at a reporter. \ WIDER ANGLE: In this size the cop shooting Australian reporter @LaurenTomasi with rubber bullets looks even more intentional. (H/T @bubbaprog) pic.twitter.com/rYTkJDlkKY — The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) June 9,...
by jpitney | Jun 8, 2025 | Debt, Economic Policy
From the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
by jpitney | Jun 7, 2025 | California Politics, Economic Policy
Dan Walters at CalMatters: The disappearance of inter-party competition means Democrats have been free to implement their responses to multiple issues spawned by the state’s economic and cultural complexity — such things as erratic water supply, low-performing public...
by jpitney | Jun 6, 2025 | Civic Education, Civility
Linda Prevost at Yale: Immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, a group of 10 Yale students from a variety of backgrounds convened on campus to discuss the unthinkable. Brought together by the university’s Civic Thought Initiative (CTI), which...
by jpitney | Jun 5, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
AT NYT, Michael Gold reports that some House Republicans have expressed regret about voting for the reconciliation bill, which they did not read. Last week, Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska admitted during a town hall meeting in his district that he did not know...
