Click Here to Read: Is fear of Putin Justified? Absolutely. Fears, Phobias, and the Actual Menace of Putin’s Rule (Vol. 5; Issue 33) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD in his Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind newsletter on August 20, 2025.
President Trump and President Putin posing for a photo during the 2025 Russia–United States Summit. Image: 
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Click Here to Read: This book club aims to address the children’s literacy crisis while saving libraries: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, first partner of California, formed her club to urge young people to read and visit libraries. The problem? Libraries themselves are under Trump’s siege by Nadra Nittle on the 19th Website on August 14, 2025.
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Click Here To Read: Lies, damned lies, and statistics: What does the firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner mean for the future of the truth in America? by Anand Giridharadas the Ink on August 06, 2025.
Click Here to Read: Trump’s Trickle Down Psychologics: Firing of Economics Expert Stokes Fear in Global Citizens (Vol. 5; Issue 31) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys into the Unconscious Mind newsletter on August 06, 2025.
Click Here to Read: Mental(izing) Health: Worse Than It Seems, But Not Without Hope
Newsletter, #67 by Elliot Jurist on his Mental(izing) Health blog on Linked In on August 1, 2025.
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Click Here to Read: Trump and the E.U. Have a Blueprint for a Giant Trade Deal. Is it Good for Europe? Both sides hailed the agreement as the biggest ever. But it will come at a cost to the European Union, and many details have yet to be nailed down By Jeanna Smialek in The New York Times on July 28, 2025.
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Click Here to Read: Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change: The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague By Karen Zraick and Marlise Simons in The New York Times on July 23, 2025.
Global Climate Strike in The Hague, September 27, 2019. Image: Sandra Fauconnier. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away.
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security By David Gelles in New York; Somini Sengupta in Brasília and in Tirunelveli, India; Keith Bradsher in Beijing; and Brad Plumer in Washington in The New York Time on June 30. 2025.
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