Stuff I just got around to reading

I had a busy Friday and a busier Saturday, so I just got to these this morning:

• The entire Chicago Public Schools board resigned Friday in the latest salvo in the fight between Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) and CPS CEO Pedro Martinez.
• The Supreme Court rejected two emergency applications from polluters who want to continue polluting while their cases work through the system.
• Brett Stephens looks back at a year of increasing anti-Semitism disguised as "anti-Zionism." (This is exactly why I'm reading Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.)
• Amazon has ordered its entire workforce back to the office, fomenting a backlash and worrying people who work better remotely (like I do).
• Metra, Chicago's heavy-rail operator, got a Federal grant to investigate expanding O'Hare to downtown service on the North Central line.
• National Highway Transportation Safety Administration regulations make it nearly impossible for carmakers to offer the super-efficient mini-cars that millions of people drive in Europe and Asia.

Finally, US Senator and vice-presidential nominee JD Vance (R-OH) has a lot to say about families, but when you actually look at how he lives his own life, it makes you wonder about his sincerity. Actually, that's not entirely true: everything the man says makes you wonder about his sincerity, but in the case of family policies he's even more obtusely hypocritical than usual.