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Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Why Trump and Mamdani Might Both Welcome a Fight
“President Donald Trump’s approval ratings may be sliding, but one political super sense is as sharp as ever: picking a fight with an adversary he casts as the entire Democratic Party,” CNN reports. “Step forward, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.” “It took just days for Trump to jump on Mamdani’s refusal to roll back a […]
You know what would be epic? A bit of colour (thetimes.com)
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
July 20, 2026
On Friday an Iranian attack on a U.S.
Auctions, expectations and what price loyalty? Life as a T20 franchise cricketer (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
(S+) Claude wird immer populärer, ich hänge noch bei ChatGPT. Sollte ich wechseln? (spiegel.de)
Read The Times’s Motion in Response to the Trump Administration Subpoenas (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
🦍 Mitchellaneous 7.20.2026
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source
latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-25/drying-colorado-river
The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
If His Shitty AI Movie Is What Finally Taught You Neill Blomkamp Is A Hack, Then So Be It
It's 13 minutes of nothing
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study
A study found that access to AI advice collapsed people's willingness to say "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, while accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
newrepublic.com/post/213277/man-died-running-from-ice-tourist-visa
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies have only one true fix
cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire-climate-emissions-smoke-9.7274862
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran | The New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/how-biden-emboldened-israels-aggression-toward-gaza-and-iran
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition
Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Fires, floods and record heat: This is the summer of compounding disasters
cnn.com/2026/07/20/climate/climate-compounding-disasters-summer
This summer has proven we don’t have to wait for climate change to smack us in the face. The signs of global warming are all around us, right now.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Judge orders Paramount to temporarily pause Warner Bros acquisition
A coalition of states led by California won a pause of Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, after the states argued letting the merger close would irreparably harm competition.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The Trump administration sought the phone records of several New York Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter’s mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of President Trump’s new Air Force One jet.
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Hey Look, We Redesigned Our Website
Well, well, well, would you look at that. We have a fancy new website. This redesign is the result of a lot of hard work by our esteemed partners at Lede, and they have provided us with a homepage that is much more customizable. We now have the ability to highlight specific stories, coverage areas,…
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• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Legionnaires’ Outbreak: Health Workers Say They’re Burnt Out, Understaffed
thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/20/legionnaires-disease-staff-shortages-nyc-health-department/
The union representing Department of Health scientists says low wages and overwork make it hard to recruit and retain staff amid a summer of public health emergencies.