RIP John Barth nytimes.com/2024/04/02/boo…

Has anyone written a good explanation for why people are willing to pay billions of dollars for part ownership of Truth Social? For all the articles I've read about the deal & lawsuits etc, I'm still confused about why its valuation makes any sense and would like to understand.

From 'fake news' to openly discussing a 15-week ban (in private conversations, Trump said he liked 16 weeks because it's 'even' as a number) Jonathan Swan nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

Jared Kushner and Ric Grenell are closing in on major deals in Albania and Serbia, benefiting in part from relationships built while President Trump was in office. w Eric Lipton Maggie Haberman nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/…

Highlights of the Georgia judge's decision explaining why he decided that Fani Willis can stay on the Trump election case -- if Nathan Wade leaves the prosecution team nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/…

BREAKING: What the Biden-Hur transcript shows nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/…

Mike Johnson looks exceedingly uncomfortable

TV should not have panelists talking in this run up to SOTU. Just let the camera play. The interactions are more interesting than generic take rambling.

Trump is 'clearly running on an overtly more antidemocratic platform than any major party candidate in well over a century.' The New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger cites work of Maggie Haberman Jonathan Swan Charlie Savage in our #RISJMemLecture Q&A
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-text…

Some personal voice creeping in on our live-blogging of the Supreme Court arguments in the cases about FL and TX laws blocking tech companies from content moderation. nytimes.com/live/2024/02/2…

.⁦Charlie Savage⁩ with several war-related legal scoops—including the latest forthcoming executive branch circumvention of the war power’s resolution. nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/…

Previously undisclosed letters show the White House clashed with the Justice Dept ahead of the special counsel report on Biden's handling of classified docs, re whether Hur's disparagement of Biden despite deciding there was no case violated DOJ policies. nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/…