Sunday Reads: Oct. 19
Happy weekend Great Falls. Here’s this week’s reading list.
Associated Press: These people will lose if Affordable Care Act health subsidies expire
The Economist: Governments going broke
NPR: Should the bus be free? Not everyone is on board
The Washington Post: ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Reuters: Trump says his administration is working on lowering beef prices
Associated Press: An Israeli security official says the transfer of aid into Gaza is halted after a Hamas ceasefire violation
The Washington Post: Amid shaky truce, Israel says it struck Gaza after Hamas attacks
The Washington Post: Putin demanded Ukraine surrender key territory in call with Trump as condition for ending the war
Indiana Public Media: Indiana University fires adviser of student media, stops printing Daily Student
The Wall Street Journal: AI data centers, desperate for electricity, are building their own power plants
The Washington Post: Thieves steal treasured jewelry from Louvre in daytime heist
City Lab | Bloomberg: Library designs showcase new roles as social hubs and downtown boosters
The Washington Post: Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
The Economist: Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups
The Wall Street Journal: Grocery prices keep rising. frustrated consumers are trying to adapt.
The Washington Post: With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department
The Wall Street Journal: Walmart, once a byword for low pay, becomes a case study in how to treat workers
Reuters: Sam Altman-backed Oklo to get $2 billion for U.S. nuclear fuel development
The New York Times: World meteorological report marks biggest annual jump in CO2 levels
Foreign Affairs: A grand strategy of reciprocity
The Washington Post: ‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to kill himself
CyberScoop: PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison
Foreign Affairs: Hamas is not done fighting
StateScoop: The government shutdown didn’t stop disaster relief, but it delays money for states
The New Yorker: The real housewives of Moscow
The Atlantic: What the founding fathers ate—and drank—on July 4, 1777
The Washington Post: She spurned the concertmaster’s advance. Now she’s classical music’s #MeToo vigilante.
The New York Times: How America got hooked on ultraprocessed food
The Washington Post: Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’s bid to set aside $1.4 billion verdict for defaming Sandy Hook families
The Atlantic: The drink that Americans won’t give up without a fight
The Wall Street Journal: America’s favorite apple is a farmer’s nightmare
BBC Science Focus: The only country that produces all its own food
The New York Times: Shein chose Paris for its first boutique. Paris isn’t pleased.
The Economist: The vital art of talking to strangers
The Conversation/FERN: Can you really be addicted to food?




