Honored that our team has been recognized with the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, for our project exposing how lead recycled in Nigeria and sold to battery manufacturers in US has poisoned communities in Nigeria.

One thing that now even the most hopeful have to admit, is that the unctuous European tactic of flattering, praising, massaging Trump has been a catastrophic failure and made things worse.

Davos, always a performance, has essentially surrendered to the realities of the Trump age. My story, en route www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/b...

Filing under “things I never thought I’d read”

"In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated." via @davidgilbert.bsky.social at @wired.com www.wired.com/story/trump-...

I know it’s not the most important part, but I can’t get over how terrible the writing is here

Ok look, it’s in no way a contradiction to acknowledge that semicolon use is often pretentious and still be pro-semicolon

That the comp with dot com era Cisco now used to justify Nvidia valuation is all I need to know about the rigor of analysis behind the AI bubble. This from @axios.com

The brave, thoughtful people behind Brexit now like guy in college class who insisted that we’d never actually seen real communism so you can’t judge it by USSR, East Germany etc. We’re still waiting for the real Brexit, done right giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The Brexit implementation fiasco

It's quaint to talk about inflation reports and surprising softness on the margins when in 13 days the out-of-pocket cost of health insurance is going to rise for 26 million households by an average of 75%

Since our investigation, Nigerian authorities have shut down factories that have recycled lead sold to battery manufacturers in US. With @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/w...

Dear David Stearns, southwest has super cheap flights back to Milwaukee

Why is it so hard to construct major projects in the US? I looked at TSMC's computer chip factories in Phoenix, a $165 billion investment, and came away with 18,000 reasons. Our story with extraordinary photos from Loren Elliott. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

Please give a listen to today's episode of @nytimes.com The Daily which features our joint investigation with @theexamination.org on horrific lead poisoning of communities in Nigeria as part of recycling of lead used to make car batteries in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/p...

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Is this the part of the movie where German banks start buying crypto exchanges?

Just went on @pbsnews.org News Hour to talk about our investigation with @theexamination.org on lead poisoning from lead recycling in Nigeria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqwS...

Here's my reporting partner, @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social in a terrific video on the impacts of lead poisoning in the communities in Nigeria that we focused on in our investigation of lead recycling. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Read our latest investigation with @nytimes.com 👇 www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...

Excellent article tracing the supply chain of lead back to factories in Nigeria that are poisoning residents. American companies like Amazon, Lowe’s and carmakers all use them. @petersgoodman.bsky.social & @willfitzgibbon.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why do otherwise intelligent people insist on referring to Milei economics as “radical free market” while pointing to his insistence on “maintaining a strong peso to crush inflation? In a truly free market the peso would sink like a stone.

Recalling that 3yrs ago when my book DAVOS MAN came out depicting @mbenioff.bsky.social as a guy who mostly cared about tax cuts and dereg, the one guy I encountered on media tour who pushed back and defended him was @profgalloway.com genuinely wondering what he thinks tonight

Do not miss this excellent story from Keith Bradsher Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

In which @davidjlynch.bsky.social gets Bill Clinton to acknowledge that liberalizing trade without attending to people who inevitably lose jobs has been disaster. Great excerpt from his new must read book www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

In the AI boom, a lot of entrants are the next Pets.com. Clarifying story from David Streitfeld www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/t...

Important context here from @bencasselman.bsky.social Lisa Cook Broke Ground at the Fed, Before Attack by Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...

When we argue about trade in the US, bemoaning job losses, we are really talking about other things: the lack of health care, the failed promise of job training, the abandonment of workers. To explore this, I compared two mass layoffs: one in Ohio, one in Sweden www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/b...

This detail in this terrifying and insane piece from @kashhill.bsky.social is one of the most powerful details you could ever encounter www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

When blackstone gets to manage UBI while investing some holdings in crypto is when it will happen

Something to keep in mind amid continued attention to Trump claims on “white genocide” in South Africa. It’s precisely because Mandela opted not to pursue major land transfers — concerned he not upset international investors needed to finance development — that South Africa today remains so unequal.

Serious question @howardbeck.bsky.social @zachlowenba.bsky.social did Tatum injury save Mazulla job? Because even before Tatum went down Celtics had blown series, arguably because of predictable coaching/dogmatic reliance on 3 to point of insanity. Does Tatum loss provide plausible excuse?

This, from Andy Rothman at Sinology, a story not told enough. Pre pandemic, China much farther along with domestic consumer led growth than understood (or conveniently discussed in dominant frame on China)

This, from the smart and wise @alanbeattie.bsky.social is wrong. There were structural problems revealed by pandemic: market concentration in shipping, rail, meat; lousy working conditions in trucking, warehouses; excessive Just in Time keeping inventories dangerously low.

In a similar vein, I just finished listening to @petersgoodman.bsky.social’s “How the World Ran Out of Everything.” Even if you think you have an idea of how supply chains work, the true complexity of the systems are mind blowing www.overdrive.com/media/101303...

Sharp analysis from @chrisgiles.ft.com on the familiarity of arguments — now heard from Trump admin, previously heard from Brexiteers -that trade deficit amounts to leverage in trade negotiations. on.ft.com/439JYu7 Brexit lessons for Trump’s trade war

🚨Add the series to your podcast app right now: LeverNews.com/TaxRevolt The Lever has launched TAX REVOLT - a new audio series exposing the roots of the anti-tax movement behind Trump's new billionaire tax cuts. Please repost/share to spread the word - this project is months in the making👇

Trump has achieved the previously unthinkable: he has dented faith in the sanctity of US government bonds. My story www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

Such an important story from @bencasselman.bsky.social correcting common fallacies about the China Shock www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

What could possibly go wrong when the world's two largest economies have a trade war?

104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.

Had a terrific conversation with @astead-mirror.bluesky.bot and Michael Barbaro about Trump tariffs and what happens next www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

How the World Ran Out of Everything, part 2

On The Daily, we hashed out the global consequences of Trump’s dramatic tariff increases, with @jeannasmialek.bsky.social Natalie Kitroeff and Michael Barbaro www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/p...

Perfect illustration of how hurting production in North American neighbors hurts the very workers tariff policy supposedly aimed at boosting. Many finished cars in Mexico use parts made in US. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/b...

Perfect illustration of broad tariff damage from @ericasimov.bsky.social US wine producers likely to capture more of domestic market, but still prices may rise given they rely on imported barrels, cork etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/d...

Trump’s trade war is the culmination of a backlash brewing since both parties’ free trade dogma destroyed the industrial heartland. A deep dive with @petersgoodman.bsky.social on whether tariffs will do more harm than good — and how they scramble red/blue politics. www.levernews.com/the-lost-his...

This single part for violinists, made by a family-owned factory in Canada, reveals the dangers for the global economy as Trump advances his trade war. My story. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...