all the girls with jury duty next week (me) getting ideas… nydailynews.com/2024/04/11/van…

reading an essay collection so good that I keep wanting it to multiply!

amid the fun fascism debate I hadn't read the Andrew Marantz piece that kicked it off; now I have, and it's very good newyorker.com/books/under-re…

rTOtality

Beautiful Wesley Morris essay about Curb: nytimes.com/2024/04/05/mag…

a public service advisory from Marie Solis

Twenty years after covering Ahmad Al-Halabi's case for the Detroit Free Press, Tamara Audi tells the tale of this spy who wasn't with spectacular empathy and depth and care. What a wrenching story bit.ly/4acKzfP

I love everything about this by Sam Adler-Bell ... 'Here’s where the trouble starts: I can’t allow her to kill the present. When we get going on this topic, she says, “Well, what’s the present? Isn’t it always slipping away?'
thebaffler.com/salvos/good-en…

U.S. Hospitals Must Now Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, Federal Health Agency Says. In a letter to teaching hospitals, the H.H.S. said institutions could lose Medicare funding if they didn’t comply, by Emma Goldberg nytimes.com/2024/04/01/hea… via @NYThealth @SGOCorg

“Every day is very hard — every day we feel that he is not here.”

I spoke with the parents of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for one whole year today, arrested while doing his job

nytimes.com/2024/03/29/bus…

One year unjustly detained, just for being a journalist.

#FreeEvan #IStandWithEvan

Listening to oral arguments in the abortion pill case? Curious how we got here? You pre-order our book: The Fall of Roe and The Rise of a New America bit.ly/4aaL21W
Lisa Lerer

wrote about the Anxious Generation, and the reading Jim Comey assigned at the FBI bit.ly/3ISXc3H

the new waxahatchee AND joni on spotify is a lot to handle at one time

i love this conversation between Styles desk friends about Beyonce's album cover!!

and this lovely Marie Solis shoutout to summer of cowboys, reinventing the west (and everybody going Lonesome Dove mode)

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Since the ubiquitous introduction of smartphones, “young people have been experiencing a tidal wave of anxiety, self-harm, & suicide. Since 2010, major depressive episodes have doubled for teens—really a ‘great rewiring’ of childhood.” But it could fall.

nytimes.com/2024/03/23/bus…

'Mr. Haidt lays out an ambitious set of interventions in his new book, which include: no smartphones before high school, no social media before age 16 and no phones in schools....'Let’s say by the end of 2025.'' This is a good Emma Goldberg piece on Jonathan Haidt:
nytimes.com/2024/03/23/bus…

Here is the best description of me ever: 'Mr. Haidt often sounds like what might happen if the doomsayer Cassandra swallowed Dale Carnegie: alarmed by the catastrophes humans have cooked up, but stubbornly chipper about our capacity to undo them.' From Emma Goldberg…