Sunday Reads: April 28

Hope everyone enjoyed the sunshine for Ice Breaker weekend.

Here’s this week’s reading list.

The Washington Post: How Columbia students sparked a nationwide revolt

The Washington Post: Why the U.S. struggles to replace millions of lead pipes. ‘We’re just stuck.’

NPR: Why experts say inflation is relatively low but voters feel differently

The Washington Post: Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump Jan. 6 trial, but not immediately

Associated Press: Supreme Court divided over access to emergency abortions

The New York Times: The sinking Arizona town where water and politics collide

The Economist: How strong is India’s economy?

The Washington Post: An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India

The Economist: How far could America’s stock market fall?

Reuters: Insight: As solar capacity grows, some of America’s most productive farmland is at risk

The Washington Post: Supreme Court justices hearing case on homeless ban appear divided between protecting rights and controlling a worsening problem

Associated Press: Biden administration issues new rules on airline fees and refunds

Detroit Free Press: Flint residents to Biden: Pay up for decade-old water crisis failures

Route Fifty: 911 call centers cope with more calls, fewer workers

EdScoop: ASU student newspaper retracts 24 articles written with generative AI

High Country News: More than a year after typhoon, Alaska’s subsistence food harvest struggles

The Washington Post: FCC restores net neutrality regulations that were repealed during the Trump administration

The Economist: America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population

The Washington Post: Congress passes bill that forces a sale or a ban of TikTok, the most significant threat yet to the app’s U.S. operations

The Atlantic: Cows are suffering even on the most ‘humane’ dairy farms

StateScoop: Russian hacking group claims responsibility for cyberattack on Indiana wastewater plant

The Washington Post: Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.

The Washington Post: A hidden force supercharged this Alabama flood — and threatens the American South

Foreign Affairs: China’s alternative order

Stateline: ‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Making Campuses Safe: Emerging Threats, Technologies, and Solutions

Food and Environmental Reporting Network: Hydropower is a clean energy darling. But it comes with tremendous costs.

Council on Foreign Relations: What happened to the “stalemate” in Ukraine?

The New Yorker: Spoiler alert: Leftovers for dinner

The Economist: Pssst! Want to read something about rumour and innuendo?