Sometimes, courage and resilience is so strong it can take your breath away. Free Evan Gershkovich now.

I spent much of the winter in Arizona, reporting on the Senate campaigns and the border. For the latest issue of New York Magazine, I wrote about the two oppositional realities that emerged: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Have tremendously enjoyed Tyler Pager's 3 part series looking into the decision-making process of President Biden washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

“Officers intentionally earned the trust of parents and guardians, created opportunities to get kids alone and threatened repercussions for broken silence. Unlike teachers and priests, they did it all while wielding the power of their badges and guns.” washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/inter…

NEW: From asking how young people “make love” in the pandemic to talking inflation with his gardener to butt dialing a friend, Joe Biden is shaped by private chats and chance encounters.

The first story from my new three-part series, How Biden Leads
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The settlement, isolated in the Amazon forest, had long been devoutly Catholic. Then one day a mysterious, but charismatic evangelical preacher arrived — and the rest of the story began.

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This week's POLITICO Magazine Friday Read is by Rosie Gray. tinyurl.com/5fnruvm6

Older Upper West Side man just walked up to a secret service agent wearing a bullet proof vest standing on a closed off street and asked, “What About Alternate Side Parking?”

Biden due to show up in next 10 minutes.

Yulia, a young Ukrainian mother, fled Russia's invasion for the relative safety of her husband's hometown: Gaza City. Now she and her family are sick, injured and waiting for death to come, trapped in Gaza as the war rages. Hannah Allam Anastacia Galouchka
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NRA more consumed with defending itself than mission, spending 3x on legal fees than on federal candidates in last three election cycles. What does that mean for 2024? W/
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Ted Mann, just one of the great reporters on this list, got the majority of the paper’s bridgegate scoops, turning the story of a bizarre traffic study into a scandal for Chris Christie with national implications. politico.com/media/story/20…

''Is there a path to reconciliation?' Ash asked during another conversation.

'That’s the question,' Mary said.

'What is justice now?' Ash asked.

'I don’t know,' Mary said.'

Ruby Cramer The Washington Post #longreads (Subscription required)
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A lot of very good journalists were lured out of very good jobs by the owners of the Messenger with the promise that it was going to be built to last and it is absolutely appalling what has happened there

What a staggering story. A 2-year investigation from the Associated Press finds that prison labor is connected to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods, sold by some of the biggest food companies. apnews.com/article/prison…

This Ellen Barry story captures the helpless horror of watching someone you love sink deeper and deeper into psychosis. My heart hurts for these parents.

I have to think that improving antipsychotic medications might be the only sustainable solution. nytimes.com/2024/01/28/hea…

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▫A chance encounter at N.Y. playground leaves a father asking, ‘What is justice now?’
▫Ruby Cramer
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Judge Kaplan, to jurors: 'My advice to you is that you never disclose that you were on this jury.'

Carjackings nearly doubled in Washington DC last year. That has made the job of drivers for DoorDash etc increasingly harrowing. Deeply reported paul schwartzman look at the anxious nights of the gig workers we rely on to bring our meals to us:
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