Dion made finance accessible to morons like me. He is an excellent reporter who will instantly improve the metabolism of any newsroom.

I can't think of anyone better equipped to pass judgement on Sydney Sweeney's appearance, talent and cultural significance than these two. 🙄

The book Jeffrey Toobin wrote about the O.J. Simpson trial, 'The Run of His Life,' is simply superb. I felt like I was learning about the case for the first time. And in a way, I was.

amazon.com/Run-His-Life-P…

I did not want this profile to end.

“I took off after him, waving and smiling like the good-natured midwesterner I am. “Congressman, hi,” I said, suddenly wishing I’d worn shoes with arch support.” ⁦Elaine Godfrey⁩ theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

exactly how i'd expect a 'crypto lawyer' to dress tbh

The harassment he’s describing is a polite voicemail.

“Even though Republicans have repeated this ad nauseam to the point where The Free Press would blithely state it as fact, it is simply not true that the Mueller report “found no credible evidence of collusion.”” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

I just love how baby elephants have no understanding of how absolutely massive they are so they just behave like big dog

This shot from The Joker trailer is one of the coolest shots ever.

Once worried most about antisemitism of the Left, Sohrab Ahmari writes 'I’m more worried about openly Jew-hating (and anti-black) online right ...revival of ideologies centred' on hereditary differences, eugenics & IQ, and Nietzschean worship of strength: newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Inflation was 3.5% in the past year --> highest since September.

Here are key items really driving inflation now
Car insurance +22% in past year
Car repair +12%
Baby formula +10%
Veterinarian +10%
Rent +5.9%
Electricity +5%
Restaurants +4.2%
(Gas up 1.3% in past year)

This seems…not fair.

Washington is weird. People think it’s all about politics but then someone does a symposium on Kantian aesthetics to a full house.

Subscribe to Bookforum! It's the right thing to do, you know who you are, etc. subscriptions.bookforum.com

scoop: NPR editor in chief Edith Chapin responds to Uri Berliner’s essay in The Free Press: “I and my colleagues on the leadership team strongly disagree with Uri’s assessment of the quality of our journalism…”

People have been screen-shoting that Bookforum Magazine review for a couple of days now. It's on the site now, and it is pretty brutal.

bookforum.com/print/3004/lau…

“We could face up to where we’ve gone wrong. News organizations don’t go in for that kind of reckoning. But there’s a good reason for NPR to be the first: we’re the ones with the word ‘public’ in our name.” @uriberliner's hope for a U.S. media institution. thefp.pub/4aJXNk4

This entire session of Congress has been one huge self-own for House Republicans. They will rue the day they agreed to 'motion to vacate' concessions.

nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/…

The silence of the prominent Palestinian-American artist DJ Khaled on Gaza is a reminder of the pitfalls of celebrity solidarity. Rather than questioning where Khaled is, Maysa Mustafa writes, the question should be: 'Do Palestinians really need him?' newlinesmag.com/spotlight/dj-k…

Yes, a healthy Aryan family generated by AI. Nothing infuriates us more.