Every one of these stories is worth your time. Bloomberg's annual Jealousy List is always a great reminder of just how much quality reporting and writing is being done despite the challenges. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

“Until we realize CEOs are selling futures, not seeing them, we’ll keep diverting talent, capital, and political attention toward fantasies.” ← @nbj914.bsky.social on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

Was using Gemini a little bit to help w/ the maintenance for my 80-gallon reef system. It keeps deleting our conversation history and replacing every prompt w/ "sensitive query." I feel guilty, like I've been trying to stock up on Sudafed at the local Walgreens or something. 🐠

No one writes more beautifully about space than @rossandersen.bsky.social. And this has the benefit of being not just magisterial, but extremely important. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A

That white space on the latest cover of New York wasn't originally supposed to be there. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

Wrote for The Morning News about the theater of tech futurism and why we let actual systems atrophy while chasing the next pivot. My focus for 2026: Building things that last, not just things that scale fast and break. themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

Gossip is back. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Let Us Eat Cake: Lisa Donovan closes out the Eat column in the New York Times Magazine with one final recipe, 14 years after Mark Bittman launched it. I read this more than any other food coverage, I guess just because it's in a general interest magazine and I'm old. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

He's already got Business Insider and Politico and Morning Brew. Now Mathias Dopfner wants more media properties in the U.S., but says he can't find any that are very appealing. www.wsj.com/business/med...

We turn to this place for magic.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I Don’t Know if I Believe in God, but I Believe in Gospel Music: “In a world that increasingly fosters self-interest and social isolation, gospel points me toward something more intimate, more collective.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/m...

Sandra Oh Knows What’s Great About Middle Age: “‘Don’t let anyone fool you. It’s tougher on my body. It’s tougher on my mind in certain ways. But it is great, because I feel balanced enough to really start digging into very important questions.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/m...

Everyone’s Obsessed With True Crime. Even Prisoners Like Me.: “The mug shot of the man I killed flashed on screens across the prison; I worried that a friend might recognize him and want to harm me.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/m...

6 Films Better Than the Books They’re Based On: “Steven Spielberg took this promising genetic code, selected the fittest elements, spliced them with Hitchcock, and adapted them to the cool dark of the multiplex. The result is ... a perfect movie.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated.: “Though Aurora’s crime rate remains much higher than the national median, serious crime fell between 2022 and 2024 when Venezuelan migrants were arriving in the city.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/m...

The Grody-Patinkin Family Is a Mess. People Love It.: “‘I want to be messy. I want to be human. I want to make mistakes. I want to apologize. I want to be tactile. So yeah, we’re messes.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/m...

What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything.: “Payment of the fee then grants you access to a long, flat amusement park, which funnels you into a dizzying number of random worlds along its spine.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

Can You Ever Really Know a Person? Biographers Keep Trying.: “The health of the genre owes much to its indifference to stated aims, set practices, established rules, or professionalization of any kind.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/m...

Martha Stewart Has Plenty of Beef — but She Also Has a Point: “Martha’s always spoken her mind about whatever she deems real stupid, and she’s always bounced right back into the limelight when she’s gotten flak for it.” www.theringer.com/2025/07/01/p...

I Tried to Avoid Administrative Work. Writing a Novel Was a Poor Way to Do So.: “Writing my book delivered me the unglamorous yet oddly comforting realization that work is work, that there is no magic trick out of reality....” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/m...

Have ‘Best of’ Lists Made Travel More Bland?: “These days, lists have spread beyond travel magazines and seem to be offered by everyone and everything: bloggers, TikTokers, ChatGPT.” nymag.com/intelligence...

Illness Took My Mother’s Independence, but It Gave Us Something Precious: “When I look back at it now, I think about just how much my mom has taught me to slow down — and how I, hopefully, have given her permission to be OK with doing so.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/m...

21st-Century Cinema in Review: Step Brothers: “These days, McKay’s brand is less Funny or Die than Funny and Didactic, a good-intentioned but artistically paralyzing bind exemplified by Don’t Look Up.” www.theringer.com/2025/06/27/m...

The Book Cover Trend You’re Seeing Everywhere: “It tends to lay blaringly bright type in a sans-serif font atop a painting, usually a few centuries old.... Facial expressions are baleful or dyspeptic; an aggressive burst of spray paint can change the tone entirely.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/b...

This Reviled Pest Is the Unsung Hero of Every Major City in the World: “Although pigeons can be as fetching as parrots and nearly as widespread as songbirds, they generally receive far less respect and admiration from birders and scientists.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/m...

Copaganda and Me: “We watched so much TV about law enforcement that, in the 1980s, I thought policing mostly involved pumping the gas and darting through busy intersections while suspenseful music played in the background.” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Misty Copeland Changed Ballet. Now She’s Ready to Move On.: “‘I’ve never felt like I’ve gotten to this place and given this opportunity because I am the best Black dancer to ever exist. I was the first at American Ballet Theater to be given an opportunity.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/m...

Can Watching Movies Rewire Your Brain?: “The study is a test of what psychologists call ‘narrative transportation,’ the idea that when people lose themselves in a story, their attitudes change.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

From Antarctica With Love: “Pennell left a trove of letters and diaries behind, but they sat largely unconsulted for a century. The romance hidden inside them was a gift waiting for the right moment to be discovered.” magazine.atavist.com/from-antarct...

The Strange Rise of the Before-and-After Tragedy Meme: “We now depend so much on technology that it has made our favorite devices and platforms, and the traces we leave on them, an unavoidable part of how we experience death.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/m...

Do Patients Without a Terminal Illness Have the Right to Die?: “‘If you want to allow people to end their lives when they want to, then put suicide kits in hardware stores, right?’ Li told me. It was not ‘assistance in dying’ if the patient was not actually dying.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/m...

The Spaghetti ‘Pretty Much Every Kid Loves’: “The key to a great spaghetti Napolitan, a dish that’s hard to get right, is to think of it as a yaki ('fried') noodle more than an Italian-style pasta.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/m...

The Ethical Minefield of Testing Infants for Incurable Diseases: “Isn’t this going to draw out worrisome prognoses in children who may never manifest major developmental delays?” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/h...

Too Much Zucchini? This Salad Can Save the Day.: “This quick salad — not really a pickle at all — is typically made with cucumber, a few slices of white onion, salt, pepper, lemon juice, apple cider or white vinegar, and a pinch of sugar.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/m...

Twain Dreams: “Why has it so often seemed necessary to claim Twain in this fashion? Presumably the answer involves some variant of whatever instinct prompted Everett to subvert (and thereby affirm the power of) the very book that gave rise to this glorification.” harpers.org/archive/2025...

I Had an Affair With a Politician Who Denies Being Gay. Do I Keep His Secret?: “The result could be more intrusive, more destructive, and more lasting than you anticipate.... You can send a story out into the world, but you can’t call it home.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/m...

Why Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed With Hobbits: “They wage war against a dangerous or moribund establishment and aspire to build a brave new world out of the ashes of the old.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising: “Like crafting and sewing and other embodied competences also making a comeback, music handmade by flesh-and-blood humans on instruments made of wood and metal has acquired special added meaning.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/m...

My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.: “He wasn’t targeted because of who he was. But I also felt that he was a symbol, martyred as an avatar of justice, somehow, by people representing the total moral opposite.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

Is It OK to Earn Rental Income From an ICE Holding Facility?: “It’s a way to turn your sense of passive complicity into a measure of active redress. You may not be able to change the trust’s lease, but you can choose what your share of the proceeds stands for.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker: “Well, unmistakably, the first rule of The New Yorker is: you do not write about The New Yorker. It’s like Fight Club, with Oxford commas instead of black eyes and cut lips. And the second rule is: nuts to the first rule.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Miley Cyrus Told Us to Ask Her Anything: “‘To me that was a lyric about not only mortality but just that every day isn’t promised to us, so worrying about the future that may never come is pointless....’” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/m...

21st-Century Cinema in Review: ‘Brokeback Mountain’: “The Western has always been a genre about the distance between wilderness and civilization, focused on the people who find themselves caught perilously in between.” www.theringer.com/2025/05/30/m...

Reality TV Has a New Recipe for Success: Trauma: “Fans accustomed to giddy live-action gossip and vodka-fueled mischief are now subjected to trauma plots that feel designed for rubbernecking.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/m...

The Road Trips That Changed Their Lives: “I’d printed 56,000 postcards of spots I’d photographed in Amarillo, Texas — the county courthouse, the Army-Navy store where you’d get your Levi’s — and hadn’t sold any.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...

The Made-for-TV Movie Never Died. It Just Evolved and Migrated.: “The mid-’80s might have marked the high point for the made-for-TV movie, but the form thrived in the years before and after The Day After reminded everyone how close we were to nuclear annihilation.” www.theringer.com/2025/05/29/t...

Why Everyone Wants to Get Into the Criterion Closet: “In a world where we’re constantly reminded that physical media is dead — that the future is just algorithms stomping our faces, forever — the fact that the ... Closet has gone viral suggests that all is not lost.” www.vulture.com/article/why-...