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The Washington Post: FCC restores net neutrality regulations that were repealed during the Trump administration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




