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)