In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Zoomers’ uncertainty about the future can’t be captured by the usual metrics or entered neatly into a spreadsheet,” Anna Louie Sussman writes. “But it may be the X factor in the global parenting free fall.”

Bonus gift link. "Any hope that Greenland was an aberration rather than a precedent was dashed with the war in Iran." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

Today's gift link. "This month-long journey cannot be meaningfully sped up." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

⛽ Average U.S. gas prices per gallon on May 6, per AAA: • Regular: $4.54 (⬆️ $1.56 since war in Iran began on Feb. 28) • Premium: $5.39 (⬆️ $1.85 since war began) • Diesel: $5.67 (⬆️ $1.81 since war began)

Today's gift link. "To the extent that the Supreme Court claims broad authority to say what our Constitution means, it is in large part because we have given this authority to the justices through our indifference." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

Breaking News: James Murdoch’s company is said to be in talks to acquire most of Vox Media, including New York magazine.

Bonus gift link. "This year, since we now give you a chance to vote on your favorite looks, we're saying, unequivocally, that these were ours (presented in no particular order)." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Today's gift link. "This argument rests on the false premise that most Americans are equipped to evaluate these complex, opaque investments. They are not." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

Today's gift link. "Justice Elena Kagan, voting in the minority, struck the right tone: 'I dissent because Congress elected otherwise,' she wrote. 'I dissent because the court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Serwer 4 - Alito 0 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Today's gift link. "Republicans who were quick to denounce the Obama administration's rescue of the auto industry have been mostly silent when it has come to Mr. Trump's more numerous adventures." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

Bonus gift link. "In this 30-minute interview, Swift explains her process, the stories behind some of her biggest hits, her love of a 'rant bridge' and how life in the public eye informs the stories she tells in her songs." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/m...

Today's gift link: "More than 250 music insiders and six New York Times critics weighed in on who defines the new American songbook. Here, in an unranked list, are the artists they chose." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Today's gift link. "While in Congress, James Madison wrote: 'Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued or concluded.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

Today's gift link. "In February 2025, Donald Trump mocked Zelensky in the Oval Office. 'You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now,' Trump said. In April 2026, Ukraine has enough cards left that it’s sharing them." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

Today's gift link. "This need that some MAGA apostates feel to rationalize their previous poor judgment can be harmless, if irritating. It's only dangerous when they insist on creating a scapegoat." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...

Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives aren’t having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Today's gift link. "The blockade has reduced the country's oil revenues to a fraction of their prewar levels, but it is likely to be some time before the consequences become untenable for Iran's regime." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...

Man, the whole "anti-woke" moral panic just looks worse & worse in the rearview mirror.

BACK BELOW $4: for now. The national average price of gasoline has fallen below $4/gal for the first time since March 29. But with oil prices likely to re-accelerate in just 30 minutes as electronic trading opens, we'll likely see many many states price cycling early this week.

WTI crude jumps 7% to $88.40/bbl in opening moments of Sunday trading...

Don Schlitz, the prodigious songwriter whose credits include Kenny Rogers’s “The Gambler,” Randy Travis’s “On the Other Hand” and many other chart-topping country hits, most of them from the 1980s and ’90s, died on Thursday. He was 73.

Today's gift link. "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Few Americans — 24% — think the war in Iran has been worthwhile, a new survey released on Tuesday found, while 55% of Republicans said they thought it was worth the costs and benefits. nyti.ms/4dOYxsX

NEW: “Arrest as many people that touch you as you want to," Gregory Bovino told Border Patrol officers in 2025. But a review of hundreds of such arrests shows that charges brought against protesters and bystanders repeatedly fell apart under scrutiny. w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Today's gift link. "Pope Leo's statements aren't partisan barbs; they are expressions of his understanding of the Gospel and Catholic social teaching." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Tens of thousands of people in the Northern Mariana Islands were asked to shelter in place on Tuesday, as forecasters warned that a powerful storm barreling toward the region could cause “devastating damage.”

This meeting could’ve been an email

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Today's gift link. "The country may relearn something that never should have been forgotten. Institutions need to be reformed, not destroyed; governing well requires skill and careful attention to detail rather than leaders acting on impulse and ignorance." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/o...

Today's gift link. "Odd Systems drones use a targeting approach called YOLO, or 'you only look once.' After operators see a target, they engage an automated system, and the drone flies the final 400 or so yards autonomously, making it impervious to Russian jamming." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/w...

Today's gift link. "He would constantly ask, 'And then what?' But Mr. Trump would often seem to hear only what he wanted to hear." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

All of UCLA's points scored by seniors. Quite a stat.

Today's gift link. "For Ms. McIver, a first-term House lawmaker with little clout or pre-existing national profile, there has been no upside. And help from colleagues has been awkward to come by." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

Breaking News: The U.S. military has rescued an Air Force officer missing since a fighter jet was shot down in Iran, officials say.

Seemingly all of Silicon Valley is convinced that A.I. will bring on the end of work, or at the very least massive job losses. Economists have been skeptical, bordering on dismissive. But lately that has begun to change. Economists are starting to take A.I. seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

Average U.S. gas prices per gallon on April 3, per AAA: • Regular: $4.09 (⬆️ $0.01 from yesterday, ⬆️ $0.98 from one month ago) • Premium: $4.97 (⬆️ $0.01 from yesterday, ⬆️ $0.99 from one month ago) • Diesel: $5.53 (⬆️ $0.02 from yesterday, ⬆️ $1.64 from one month ago)

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the Army’s top general, reflecting his ongoing grievances with the Army, officials said.

Every time someone gets kicked out of President Trump's circle, I am reminded of this almost-decade-old riff from @therickwilson.bsky.social. wapo.st/4cmnk6p

Today's gift link. "A schedule implies an end date for the conflict, which must mean that Trump is still sticking to his campaign pledge to not embark on endless wars. In this way, 'ahead of schedule' translates, loosely but conveniently, to 'America first.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Merits of the case aside, it was pretty cool that a Cal-SERVE alum argued for the respondents.

From @theathletic.com: "I sure never thought I’d see the Blue Devils get Laettner’d in my lifetime, but wouldn’t you know it, I just did," our columnist writes. "I witnessed Christian Laettner’s shot. UConn’s game-winner from Braylon Mullins was better."

Bonus gift link. "It tells me that America first means pretty much whatever he says it means—and that it might be time to ditch some of our common assumptions about Republicans." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Today's gift link. "Yes, the 14th Amendment affirmed the citizenship of all Black Americans, most of whom were either newly freed or descended from people who had been enslaved. However, Mr. Trump's extremely narrow interpretation disregards the historical record." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Today's gift link. "After we voted no, the Fulton County Republican Party sued us, apparently with the backing of the Republican National Committee. Judge Emerson eventually hit the county commission with a $10,000-a-day fine, which was stayed pending our appeal." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Today's gift link. "While the Trump administration's war aims have vacillated between regime change, denuclearization and military degradation, it now has one overriding objective: reopening the strait." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

Between 100 and 150 ICE officers were sent to airports across the U.S. to assist understaffed TSA agents, according to a U.S. official. But early on Monday, it was unclear what impact they were having.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court appears poised to reject a Mississippi state law on late-arriving mail-in ballots, a decision that could upend voting and have sweeping consequences in the midterm elections.

Today's gift link. "And yet in this 40-year-old film, a benchmark of my—and now, unexpectedly, my daughter's—childhood, in the empty chairs left onstage to mark the absence of Rob Reiner and River Phoenix, we still saw ourselves." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

One more today. "Given Israel's deep involvement in almost every aspect of this war, it takes care and subtlety—both in short supply in our politics—to tease out the difference between reality and conspiracy theory." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/o...