My column on why the Fed is in trouble no matter who Trump puts at the top. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

President Trump, rickrolling the American people.

This is correct. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Every year the National Opera broadcasts a performance on the big screen at Nationals Stadium. It's a lot of fun & maybe they should just take over that venue for all their performances. The baseball thing isn't going that well anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

Or here's a crazy thought. Maybe instead of relying on philanthropy we could collect taxes from rich people. www.wsj.com/us-news/mich...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The president recently shared a photo of a White House bathroom that he had renovated by covering everything in marble. What Americans need is a president who is more focused on the cost of toilet paper. It’s up more than 3 percent so far this year.

1 and 4 sound awesome?

The Court is once again upholding Article VIII of the Constitution, which clearly states that the president is allowed to do whatever he wants except break the economy.

Live from New York: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

It's a great job Donald. It looks exactly like bathrooms used to look in Lincoln's day. Maybe take a few months off the job and focus on restoring the rest of the White House? It would be a real public service.

Of course land votes. That's the whole problem.

They say AI is going to replace human writers but I would like to see AI try to top this:

Crazy that the building did that to itself

This does raise some interesting questions about the utility of the subsidies...

President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance. Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.

Shutdowns tend to be brief because Americans are soon reminded that the government does important things. But the end of a shutdown doesn’t mean that everything springs back to normal. Some of the damage endures. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

The owners of local TV stations were a conservative force in American politics and society even back when there were a lot of them. But allowing them to consolidate has certainly made it easier for them to flex those muscles.

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe…

A sign of the folly of Mr. Trump’s trade policy is that it has inspired no apparent envy.

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I went to lunch yesterday and there were two S.C. national guardsmen at the next table who had clearly been at the restaurant for a while when I got there, and who were still chilling when I left. And I hope they spent the whole day inside enjoying the air conditioning. Much safer for all of us.

Tech companies like to tell stories in which government rarely appears except as an outside force threatening to break the beautiful things they’ve created. The story that doesn’t get told is how their successes have relied on the government's interventions. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

They should arm the National Guard troops with flyswatters. Put them to work doing something actually useful. The mosquitos in DC are out of control.

The thing I've always wondered about is, say you're a young person in DC interested in law enforcement. How do you decide which of the several dozen flavors police you want to be?

President Trump’s attempt to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is a grab for power in defiance of the nation’s laws, and if it succeeds, it will be to the detriment of the nation’s interests. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

What you're asking for is literally the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, which you would know if you had ever gone inside

As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.

I'm fascinated by this story. Did she actually hurt anyone or was she doing the job just fine? If you've successfully treated 4,500 people, are you actually engaged in a fraud?

The Trump administration is engaged in an increasingly wide-ranging effort to erase data or to prevent the collection of new data that contradicts its political agenda. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

A sad day for DC. A billionaire gets a huge check from taxpayers, and in return we get less housing and less economic development.

Option 1: Serve out your term. Option 2: Step down early for no apparent reason and facilitate Trump's takeover of the Fed. Why would you choose Option 2? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that when the facts contradicted his opinions, he changed his mind. The president prefers to change the facts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

A particularly important point about Trump's campaign to cow the Fed is that he's trying to get the central bank to conceal the damage caused by his own profligacy. He wants the Fed to hold down the government's borrowing costs. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...

The question hanging over the economy is whether President Trump understands that doing anything more than complaining about the Federal Reserve would be counterproductive. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...

Here’s what happens when you don’t bring transit service back: riders don’t come back either. Of the 25 largest US urban areas, all but one offered less transit service in 2024 than they did in 2019. No wonder they all have lower ridership.

Amazing stat: According to this piece, If you put solar panels on just half of the land used to grow corn for ethanol in the United States, you could generate enough solar power to eliminate the need to generate any electricity from fossil fuels. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Ten years. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Love this.

There Are No Lone Wolves www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/o...

lol this is a great point. Our new royalists have adopted the British spelling of theatre.

What a brazen lie to tweet right above a video in which one can clearly hear Padilla saying "I'm Senator Alex Padilla."

It may seem like chaos, but the best way to understand what's happening on immigration is that there are a bunch of competing forces that are most easily balanced by treating immigrants as a permanent underclass of cheap labor. Trump has tried to upset that equilibrium, and he's losing the fight.

Even if you share the Republican Party's view that military bases should be named for traitors, the other reason it's weird to name a base for Braxton Bragg is that he was an incompetent military commander.

Ok, what would your discipline solve with $15 billion? It’s a bit under our desired budget, but we are willing to finally explain why the Roman Empire fell.

TONIGHT: Longtime homeless @mariafoscarinis.bsky.social will discuss her wonderful new book "And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America" with @nytopinion.nytimes.com writer @bcappelbaum.bsky.social at the New York Public Library. Register here: www.nypl.org/events/progr...

Tesla shareholders must really be enjoying watching their CEO burn bridges with the half of the electorate that might still have been willing to buy his cars.

The next step is juking the stats. Pretty soon we're all celebrating another record grain harvest.