I got to work on this story briefly with Kathy Gilsinan, and it was a wild ride. I'm so glad it's out in the world!

I’m still there.

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum that raised me.

“Engineers work 12-hour days, and sometimes weekends too. Taiwanese commentators joke that the company runs on engineers with ‘slave mentalities’ who ‘sell their livers’” restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…

i was the editor of a student newspaper during the biggest crisis the university i attended had ever faced. when i'm asked about the experience now, i always talk about how awful and off-the-mark most of the professional media covering it were. anyway, plus ca change....

Th context only an editor can provide!

I quite simply don’t want anyone to be mad at me ever.

I would love to hear from NYers who think they live in a good approximation of Sesame Street.

Sunset Park? Astoria? Inwood? Harlem? Make your case!

Applications for the summer/fall 2024 session of The Nation internship are now ✨open✨!
🔺 $18/hr, 35 hrs/week
🔺 6 months long, starting in June
🔺 application deadline May 19
thenationfund.org/what-we-do/int…

Twitter was a beautiful place, once upon a time. Happy Birthday, Longreads!!!

Love to see my old boss, Lewis Lapham, getting called out for his personal style in the year of our lord 2024.

You have been warned

And remember that a 5 in NYC would be an 8 almost anywhere else in the country

New Yorkers experencing an earthquake: 'Was that the subway?'

Watching The National from backstage at All Tomorrow’s Parties with Andrew Bird.