If you have the stomach to think about what is happening, read on. If you’d rather skip the news, and immerse yourself in something else, skip ahead to the ESCAPE section.

ENGAGE

Non-Fiction: What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

The Atlantic: The Attack on Birthright Citizenship is a Big Test for the Constitution — Adam Serwer

Podcast: Amicus, with Dahlia Lithwick: The Federal Funding Freeze, with Steve Vladek

Podcast: Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara: The Kiss the Ring Presidency, with Ian Bremmer

Podcast: Brian Lehrer Show: What to Know About Deportation, with members of the Immigrant Defense Project.

Non-Fiction: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, a Reckoning— Peter Beinart

ESCAPE

Good news, for a change: Reasons To Be Cheerful — David Byrne

Mystery: Death at La Fenice — Donna Leon

Podcast: Ezra Klein: Burned Out? Start Here, with Oliver Burkeman

Podcast: Radiolab: The Wubi Effect: how Chinese programmers solved the problem of getting 70,000 plus characters of Chinese onto a computer keyboard.

Podcast: On the Media: Wars are Won By Stories — Brooke Gladstone interviews Elyse Graham, author of Book and Dagger – How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War Two

Documentary: Inside the Mind of a Dog — Andy Mitchell

TV: Daisy Jones and the Six — Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Webber