The idea that US athletes should keep their politics to themselves is a troubling one, @scotteugene.bsky.social writes. It suggests that specific individuals are the definitive sources of what it means to be an American.
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
In a screengrab from a video, Alex Jeffrey Pretti is seen holding a phone as agents approach him. A headline reads: "How Federal Agents Shot And Killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Moment by Moment." Credit: dangjessie, via Instagram
Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Dozens died in a gun battle outside President Nicolás Maduro’s compound before his capture, U.S. officials said. About a half-dozen U.S. troops were injured. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
NEW: GOP centrists help Democrats defy Mike Johnson on ACA in stunning revolt
“The interesting question is not whether humans are monogamous. We know humans are monogamous, they have been for the last 200,000 years, that’s pretty clear. The real interesting question from my point of view is ‘why are humans monogamous’ ...” www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
While much of Trump’s recent scrutiny of college admissions practices has focused on race, experts say his ban on DEI is likely to hit another underrepresented group of applicants: men, and particularly White men — the largest subset of male college applicants. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Perhaps the most “newsworthy” thing about Donald Trump’s recent derogatory comments about people from Somalia is just how unsurprising they are. open.substack.com/pub/eugenesc...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
“He does not get regular exercise, in part because he has a long-held theory that people are born with a finite amount of energy and that vigorous activity can deplete that reserve ... He enjoys red meat and is known to eat McDonald’s by the sackful.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
“There is no one reason or no silver bullet for what makes crime go up and crime go down,” said Insha Rahman of the Vera Institute of Justice, a liberal research organization. “Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
“Trump’s recalcitrance on the Epstein files isn’t enough to shatter his coalition, but it has created at least a few fissures.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
By 2034, about 16 million people would lose health coverage with proposed Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “big beautiful bill” as well as changes to the Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/20/o...
Though female members of every demographic are more likely than their male counterparts to receive a psychological diagnosis, left-leaning men are more likely to experience mental illness than conservative women. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/11/o...
Great @globeopinion.bsky.social piece by my friend @scotteugene.bsky.social on how ignorance that book bans foment limits our ability to build a better, more just future. As that’s the point of it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/o...
International students contributed $44 billion to the U.S. economy in the 2023-2024 school year. Their loss could hurt more than just universities’ bottom line. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
After rising to power in part by framing himself as a protector of white America, Trump continues to use his platform, in this case the Oval Office, to elevate claims of white grievance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
Just six years after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, at Saudi Crown Prince MBS’s direction, Bezos is going into business—and, thus, helping to enrich—the man who orchestrated it. www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
Across the country, more than a thousand national and local nonprofits, schools, and faith-based and community organizations are reeling after Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service ordered AmeriCorps last week to terminate close to $400 million in grants www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
The African nation of Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to accept U.S. deportees, the country's foreign minister confirmed late Sunday. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/r...
The African nation of Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to accept U.S. deportees, the country's foreign minister confirmed late Sunday. www.axios.com/2025/05/05/r...
Sen. Cory Booker's marathon speech on the Senate floor won the floundering Democratic Party something it has desperately needed in the Trump era: attention and the applause of its base.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murder in connection to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year. www.axios.com/2025/04/01/l...
“In so many cases, these are lifesaving programs and services, and we worry for the well- being of those who have come to count on this support,” said Dannette R. Smith, the commissioner of Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View
Economist/YouGov Poll, March 9-11
54% of Americans say eliminating the U.S. Department of Education would hurt public schools in their community
18% say it would help
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
“The true returns from a college degree compound in earnings and also in overall well-being, not just over years but over decades.” time.com/7267451/coll...
56 percent of the public disapproves of Trump’s handling of the economy — worse than at any point during his first term in office. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...
“Pushing untrained creators out onto the red carpet in the hopes of virality is making a bleak media landscape even worse. Just because you give someone a microphone, it doesn’t make them a journalist — and it most certainly doesn’t guarantee a good interview.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
