Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Especially with mass layoffs ahead. Just get ahead of it.

This is my holiday reissues column! In print this weekend, online shortly.

The Grift of the Magi

And this is why it is so important to read/take in art widely, and to try and fail at things. Failure is progress and you can’t shortcut it.

My dear friend @sarahweinman.com has a whole-ass book on this!!!

“Weinman’s true-crime history is thoroughly reported, often enraging, and a compelling portrait of how misogyny and abuse have—and continue to—shape America’s legal system.” So thrilled to see WITHOUT CONSENT on ELLE’s Best Nonfiction of 2025 list!

*heaviest of sighs*

Wonderful essay about a group of students giving up phones for a summer, and the enormous benefits — which I happened to witness myself when I spoke at their class! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

Forty-seven years ago today, the first major American spousal rape case went to trial -- at a time when the very *idea* was still a novel concept in the country (and elsewhere.) Greta Rideout endured so much, and the work remains unfinished, and all too timely. www.harpercollins.com/products/wit...

Even Phyllis Schlafly would have said no to this

Season 4 of THE WHITE LOTUS

Beautiful story with lots of new reporting on Michele Reiner, a woman in her own right in addition to half of a Hollywood power couple www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/e...

"Endorsement"

Looks like I will have a feature (or "longread" or whatever we're calling it these days) going up early next week, and another piece to file before the New Year, and then I would really like a vacation or nap or both

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

oh my god

Really loved talking to @bschillace.brandyschillace.com about WITHOUT CONSENT, archive nerdery, and putting not-so-ancient history in contemporary context.

Gonna keep calling it the Misfiring Line from now on

I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Oh come on seriously www.ft.com/content/3429...

Exactly whom I wanted to read about Podhoretz, whose world we are definitely living in now

I’m a naturalized citizen and yes indeed to all of this.

Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

"When you pass off fiction as nonfiction, it sets an impossible bar for writers of actual nonfiction to follow." Appreciate Maria writing this, as someone still coming to terms with Aviv's piece (and Sacks's confabulations.)

It won’t change votes much. But the gutting of USAID might be the most consequential policy of the second Trump administration simply in terms of people who died, who went without food or medicine www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Realized the person I most want to read on the Reiners died years ago (Dominick Dunne)

Argggggghhhhhh

Team of Weirdos by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Listed some books I loved this year in my newsletter: (Subscribe here: buttondown.com/thecrimelady)

Astonishing reporting, and further solidifies my belief that Epstein was the Paul Bernardo to Ghislaine Maxwell's Karla Homolka. He was already very bad, but the combination just made it all the more monstrous.

Jamelle is obviously right but the thought of "influencing people" makes me very, very, very tired

This is how I found out Tony Geary died, goddamn.

“He doesn’t regret what he did. He said he’d do it again. But the pain has started to take a toll on him."

Also there's a reason the Jimmy Kimmel thing broke through, and this probably will too

Rob Reiner's opening run of films he directed is on par with Patricia Highsmith's opening run of novels, just unbelievable mastery from the getgo

What a thread on a remarkable director who made entertainment and art that will last.

My quote of the day If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else. Rob Reiner

Words, I don’t have any more tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

Oh no

A frelekhn khanike

Turns out I put together a couple of book lists like this earlier in the year PI fiction: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Cozy mysteries: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b...

The Snowy Day

"So now, Americans want to know who did what to whom and when – poring over the photographs like the Zapruder film of a new generation. But I know that the victims have already told you the truth. The only conspiracy in America that remains is silence." @lyz.bsky.social bringing the truth home.

The news is awful but the snow is lovely

I’ll never forget that one of the Parkland survivors was the granddaughter of one of the few who survived the Camden massacre in 1949.

And that’s why I do the journalism I do and have contempt for people who act like this

Seeing the entirety of OJ: Made in America at an East Village theater one weekend day. 7 hours, two breaks, felt like a religious experience when it was over and we staggered out of the theater, stunned at what we saw.

Not only does this track, it pairs extraordinarily well with my 2020 feature on Kahane (and more importantly, the girlfriend he drove to suicide, Gloria D'Argenio): www.thecut.com/2020/04/the-...