Out today: Zusha Elinson and I on the history and politics of the AR-15 on the "Guns Unpacked" podcast. Thank you, Alex Young, for a great discussion. #history #guns open.spotify.com/show/53HPH2Y... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Wherever you get your podcast, coming Monday, Nov. 3. #guns #AmericanHistory #ar15 #massshootings rss.com/podcasts/gun...

@wsj.com's The Journal podcast on the farming/development fight in rural #Tennessee www.wsj.com/podcasts/the...

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.

#ICYMI #Georgia wanted to become #Yallywood and for a brief period became a major player for TV/film. Now it's got problems. By @benfritz.bsky.social www.wsj.com/business/med...

After #Trump narrowly lost #Georgia in 2020, he lashed out at GA Sec of State Brad Raffensperger. He wanted Raffensperger out of office and politics. It didn't work. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

St. Louis couple get their #AR15 back, 5 yrs after they brandished it at #BlackLivesMatter protestors. www.americangunbook.com/post/st-loui...

Fifty-one years ago today.

5 soldiers wounded in shooting at #Army fort in #Georgia. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

#Atlanta's domestic migration growth streak -- decades old -- was broken last year. Key reason: housing costs. www.wsj.com/economy/atla...

#OTD 1864 #Atlanta. Union victory that paved the way for the surrender of this strategic city, the March to the Sea, and the collapse of the Confederacy.

The fight over #farmland versus #subdivisions in #rural America is intensifying. www.wsj.com/us-news/afte...

Great speaking w/ Tim Monroe on his "What I Really Want To Talk About" podcast. I talked about #JamesWeldonJohnson: poet, journalist, songwriter, diplomat, etc., including #NAACP leader during the #RedSummer of 1919 and key figure in the #HarlemRenaissance. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I can report that #Hiking on @isleofmanofficial.bsky.social is beautiful.

@wsj.com investigated what happens after natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires strike communities. We found an emerging cycle in this era of increasingly extreme weather in America: communities struck by disasters often become richer and more exclusive. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Born #OTD 1871. #JamesWeldonJohnson, novelist, essayist, poet, songwriter, diplomat, lawyer, etc. Key official in the NAACP, including during the #RedSummer. “I will not allow one prejudiced person or one million or one hundred million to blight my life.”

Interesting development and begs the question: What about the Red Summer events of 1919? #RedSummer1919 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

Finally, a #Pope who grew up watching Bozo. #WGN

#Trump: #WSJ "has truly gone to hell." x.com/atrupar/stat... www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482...

Breaking News: A federal jury ruled against Sarah Palin in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

#WSJ #Musk #Journalism www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

#Colorado's new law will ban the sale of #guns with detachable magazines, the law's goal is to make it much harder for a mass shooter to reload. www.wsj.com/us-news/colo...

A federal judge ruled that the Trump White House must admit the AP's journalists to news events - ruling its exclusion was "unlawful." Almost two hours later, two AP journalists were rejected from the WH pool to cover a Trump speech. My NPR story: www.npr.org/2025/04/08/n...

My story on #AmyGrant and a legal fight over whether a businessman "steeple-jacked" a downtown Nashville church founded by Grant's great-grandfather. #MusicCapital #Nashville www.wsj.com/us-news/nash...

The dismal science indeed.

Facts are useful in emergencies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92a...

Technology and Society magazine calls American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 "essential reading for scholars, attorneys, politicians, and citizens interested in understanding the complexities of gun violence and regulation in the United States." #books www.americangunbook.com/post/america...

The memory of Soviet-era famines, mass killings and other traumas makes Ukraine determined not to return to Russian rule, writes the Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov

ICYMI #Trump wins election; gun sales drop. A smaller version of the 2016 "Trump Slump" is underway. www.wsj.com/us-news/gun-...

Belated HBD (Jan 24, 1947) to this departed example of true American greatness, #WarrenZevon. Here he sings a Dylan classic and, imho, makes it better. The harsh truth in his voice brings it home. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZHm...

Spoke with @alexossola.bsky.social for @wsj.com What's News podcast about Los Angeles wildfires. www.wsj.com/podcasts/wha...

Thousands of dogs, cats and other pets, including a snake, crowded into #LosAngeles hotels after the fires. It led to some challenges, but most people found the animals comforting. www.wsj.com/us-news/los-...

@wsj.com latest on the #NewOrleans attacker www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...

Thanks to @niemanreports.org for picking my 1st-person essay on how Zusha Elinson and I wrote American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 as one of the best it published in 2024. #books #guns #history #journalism niemanreports.org/nieman-repor...

The big question swirling in literary circles: Do audiobook fans deserve to call themselves readers? https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/best-books-audiobooks-reading-literature-a58f5d00?mod=bluesky

The Biden administration said that Pakistan is developing a long-range ballistic missile that could eventually provide nuclear-armed Islamabad with a weapon capable of striking the U.S.

#OTD 1979 #TheClash released London Calling in the UK. Released in U.S. in January 1980. Resurfacing my story about a man obsessed with an incorrect liner note about the album's famous cover photo. www.wsj.com/articles/whe...

@wsj.com : Evan Gershkovich with Drew Hinshaw, Joe Parkinson and Thomas Grove on his abduction and the secret Putin agency that ordered it. www.wsj.com/world/russia...