From term limits for justices to cameras in the courtroom, here are six reforms that would help rebuild public trust in the Supreme Court. bit.ly/4dbN1qI

Four years ago, her country went to war. Then she became a mother. She returned to tennis a different player. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

holy shit

Boeing and Toyota donated $1 million each to help fund a new reality-television inspired show starring Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy with his family on a road trip. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4wvwnKf

The ID.Buzz now gets a new dedicated trim for camping, plus true one-pedal driving.

The owners of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution invested $150 million to reinvent the paper. The changes have been significant. Three years in, the payoff has been modest. n.pr/4tqIaqs

One lesson to take from this abysmal moment is that no victory is permanent and politics never ends. The right knew it, and the left can no longer ignore it. But that also means that the horrors now being unleashed on the country can be undone. By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN:

when PR translated directly into editorial

Congratulations, Jill Lepore! WE THE PEOPLE is a 2026 Pulitzer Prize winner in the History category. A special congratulations also to our Norton finalists Bench Ansfield and Peter Kuper!

Slightly diminish a book War and Truce

He wrote "Fuck Anita Bryant," which earns him a place somewhere in the annals of music and queer history.

my culture is not your source of found-object comedy

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

The Supreme Court wields vast power with minimal accountability. It’s time for Congress to return the Court to its proper place in the U.S. constitutional system. Here are six urgently needed reforms: bit.ly/4dbN1qI

Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz won't attempt to defend his French Open title due to a right wrist injury.

An assault on corruption can unify — it unites voters from left and right, as well as those from the exhausted middle who are sick of politics that never seem to produce results. bit.ly/4vAjw9g

Publication day's less than a year away! martinpadgett.com/the-queer-re...

also, the justices' papers ought to belong to the united states, to be made public at some date (let's say a decade) after retirement.

Confidential memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a rushed and secretive new way of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Almost 10 years after Prince’s death, following his final performance at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, Soul Cinema Sundays will hold a screening of the 1984 film “Purple Rain.”

Sid Krofft has died at age 96.

Judicial neutrality wasn’t a pose for many conservatives—but Samuel Alito has become ever more vocal about his personal leanings, Peter S. Canellos argues:

It'll fit right in...in Ashgabat

They're trying to undo the 20th century—the only cure is to undo the imperial presidency.

Hannah Einbinder is one of us! #weirdcarbs www.roadandtrack.com/news/a709557...

The surprises for many will be a) fronting time and money to develop the proposal and sample chapter and b) having a proposal that can go into turnaround.

“It is increasingly evident that the greatest threat now comes from inside our own government.” This morning in the New York Times, I lay out the stakes for this administration’s election interference.

I worry that this constitutional language is just as clear as section three, for naught.

Me trying to get to high school when 210 was a mess

Not so fond memories of this mag hijacking Car and Driver's $25m annual profit while we earned salaries a third of those paid to George staffers.

The Supreme Court today is holding an invitation-only bar memorial for the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The memorial will be livestreamed—which is a nice reminder that the court is perfectly capable of livestreaming oral arguments if it really wanted to. www.supremecourt.gov/oconnorbarme...

My latest for Gravy: www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/a-tast...

i’m beaned up rn

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Bezos-backed Slate Auto replaced its CEO Christine Barman with a former Amazon Marketplace VP, who started today, meaning Barman's last day as CEO was... on International Women's Day techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/s...

What if the federal government was a giant Cybertruck driven by insecure little boys screaming "I'm strong! I'm a big strong man! You can't tell me what to do because I'm big and strong!" while they careen into a ditch

With Amazon down, a good reminder to buy books from actual bookstores—not an oligarch-owned tech behemoth that exploits its workers.

Every child in this fucking country deserves to see themself in the books they read.

“Jesse Jackson loved us—sometimes before we loved ourselves.” @thrasherxy.bsky.social on Jackson’s legacy of support for LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

Florida's attorney general, who spends his time targeting companies for stuff like “radical LGBTQ+ activism,” is getting paid $100K a year as a Univ of Fla adjunct to teach a 2 hour/week law class. His salary is 8X higher than what the median adjunct earns. 1/ www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I can’t hear this without hearing Joanna Lumley

Janet Jackson released 'Control' 40 years ago today. 💿

Is this where we are?

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Every message about protecting children was a lie.