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.

I can

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.

Fitting moment to be opening a monument to the rewards of white collar crime across the street from the White House.

The Biden manufacturing construction boom is over:

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

Interesting conversation about declining fertility, no part more so than this unpulled thread: Douthat: Do you have kids? Evans: No. No, I don’t.

This is how it's done.

300,000 deaths.

In which LA officials suddenly remember that the LA Olympics will be held in LA: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

Trucks driven by humans kill more than 5,000 people each year. You get the sense from the coverage of self-driving trucks that even one death caused by a self-driving truck would somehow be worse.

Also disillusioned: all the people who are dead as a result of Musk’s government work.

It feels like a sip of water in a desert, but it's nice to see that something is working: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Our stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions and our inability to summon the collective will to use the land we have for the things we need. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

People who say that the United States can’t build anything anymore must not be sports fans. Barely a year goes by without the debut of a sparkling new stadium or arena, often in the very cities where it’s most difficult to build almost anything else.

That’s right

The Big Sort, law firms edition: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

The CBO’s long-term debt projections (orange) have consistently underestimated the eventual debt. (Interactive version at link.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Republicans are seeking to take away health insurance from millions of Americans, and they are doing it to give billions of dollars in tax cuts to the wealthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).