Monday Reads
A few great pieces to get your week started right.
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Happy Monday and welcome Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks.
From around the web:
Blue Origin's all-woman space flight made history, but not in the way it's promoting by Melanie McFarland in Salon
Pope Francis Changed a Lot About the Church. One Thing Cannot Be Reversed. by Molly Olmstead in Slate
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America by Clint Smith in the Atlantic
The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI by Luke O’brien in Mother Jones
Libido is a myth by Amanda Montei in Mad Woman (Substack)
Pronatalism Isn’t a Solution, It’s a Problem by Sarah Jones in Intelligencer
From here and there:
What the Arson Attack on Josh Shapiro Says About Our Politics in 2025 (Slate)
The capitulation of the American elite (The New Statesman)
A Constitutional Crisis is Coming
Republicans Are Obsessed With the Elite Institutions They Want to Destroy
Happy reading!
xx Jill + Tamar