NotableHow the Supreme Court defeated Trump. “This is no way to run a railroad. We take one step forward, we take one step back, we take one step forward, we take one step back. We’re just dancing at this point.” — Sarah Isgur, a conservative court watcher, in conversation with Ross Douthat, an Opinion columnist Talking about crime as if it’s 1994. “You’re offering a rational analysis of a subject that people tend not to be rational about.” — Neil Barsky, the founder of The Marshall Project, in conversation with Nick Turner, the president of the Vera Institute of Justice What this immigration case is really about. “Decades of writing about the Supreme Court have taught me that it’s foolish to predict the outcome of cases, and I have rarely done so. My prediction here rests on one word: procedure.” — Linda Greenhouse, a former Supreme Court reporter for The Times Spotlight
This Is How Kennedy Loses the MAHA MomsRachael Bedard, a contributing Opinion writer, asks if the movement will survive the revelation that Kennedy has been a regular, transactional politician all along. ICYMIThe end of the internet as we know it. “Now a powerful new capability has arrived — and as we’ve seen repeatedly in tech, there’s the risk that organizations with resources will receive it first and learn to protect themselves, while others are left vulnerable.” — Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla Listen (or Watch)
More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “The Great American GLP-1 Experiment” I’m a GLP-1 user who struggled to manage the side effects (nausea, vomiting, gastritis) for months as I worked through the lifestyle changes required to mitigate them. The “gee, I use it with no problems” people are exhausting. Yes, it works, but this drug is not the easy-breezy solution it’s often portrayed as. — A comment posted by Cheryl from Pennsylvania Read more comments on the story here and check out our Letters to the Editor.
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