What we are reading April 23, 2026
Some news worth reading.
Wholesale inflation rose in March to three year-high | CNN Business
Fast-rising oil prices sent US businesses’ costs higher in March, lifting wholesale inflation to 4%, the highest annual rate in three years, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday.
Alicia Wallace
Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared: Uncovering the Clandestine Killings of the Zetas in Veracruz
For thirteen years, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez has led soldiers, forensic teams, and fellow mothers into the mountains of Veracruz to dig up the clandestine graves of Mexico’s disappeared. She is still looking for her daughter Rubí.
John GIBLER
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.
Steven Levy
A philosophy of work
Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.
Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate
It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or the environment, or civil rights
Zoe Williams
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