The European Union’s highest court ruled that all member states should honor the civil status of same-sex couples married anywhere else in the bloc, regardless of domestic laws on same-sex marriage.

Seriously tho, this is a well-reported piece that make it hard not to conclude that Patel is using government resources to enjoy the trappings of a mid-level celebrity, like hosting his buddies for a golf retreat in Scotland. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

Come for the McMansionization Map. Stay for a data-based deep dive into why light-touch density needs to be a pillar of DC’s next comp plan. ggwash.org/view/101486/...

Democrats should make crystal clear that whether it is high level Trump officials, commanders carrying out illegal murders, or ICE/CPB goons, investigations and indictments are coming—referring to state AGs if Trump blanket pardons for federal crimes.

Giving MTG a 21 space laser salute

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

“Had UChicago simply matched the market, its endowment would be $6.45 billion larger today—more than enough to repay its entire debt.” Don’t understand why these people aren’t simply fired

"He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all."

For @ggwash.org, Tobias Peter and I discuss our proposal that DC legalize redevelopment of large single-family lots into duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes: ggwash.org/view/101486/...

Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

It would only take a light touch to light the way for more homes in the District’s lowest-density neighborhoods.

For @ggwash.org, Tobias Peter and I discuss our proposal that DC legalize redevelopment of large single-family lots into duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes: ggwash.org/view/101486/...

In a new AEI Economic Perspectives paper, Tobias Peter and I propose that DC legalize redevelopment of large single-family lots into duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes. We also analyze the consequences of making such a change in terms of new housing production etc. www.aei.org/research-pro...

Finally understand why they don’t call themselves neoliberals anymore!

On the plus side, DoJ now has viewpoint diversity

Imagine looking around America in 2025 and thinking, "What we need less of is morality."

Buckle up folks, we're doing Speech or Debate Clause immunity.

In fairness to Trump, the family nicknames are confusing and reporters should refer to him as “the Saudi dictator.”

I’m sorry, the files are forever compromised

Let’s do it

In a new AEI Economic Perspectives paper, Tobias Peter and I propose that DC legalize redevelopment of large single-family lots into duplexes, triplexes, and townhomes. We also analyze the consequences of making such a change in terms of new housing production etc. www.aei.org/research-pro...

Generational turnover set the recent Dutch elections apart from the past.

The problem with having rather openly purged DOJ of all but the most shameless stooges and loyalists is precisely this: Even once the Epstein files are released, why would anyone believe that release is complete and undoctored?

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

After being a cop and a mayor, Eric Adams has a new job: saboteur www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/b...

The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD Note "The" is not kerned correctly (see perspective-corrected still for reference)

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Banger week for the econ elites

“When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he sought guidance from a longtime associate: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.”

I was on Bloomberg TV to discuss pension reform in the Netherlands www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

I feel like Trump has pioneered a new form of spoils, where criminal allies of the President can expect to be compensated for their crimes.

"American girls have to sell sex to the nominee for attorney general of the United States to get braces" sounds like Soviet propaganda

“The U.S. gathered intelligence last year of Israeli officials discussing how their soldiers had sent Palestinians into Gaza tunnels the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.” www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a reporter state the Golden Rule of Journalism (“it’s not a scandal if it happens in public”) so openly.

We are all thinking it. Might as well say it. Donald Trump is not being fully candid about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade

Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!

Have any NYT management answered any questions about how many emails from mr epstein are sitting on their servers

It whips that a bunch of resources and intelligentsia has been pumped into pushing “abundance” a politically specific term that people don’t actually generally understand in a partisan or ideological context any more than they did Latinx, while someone just campaigned on “how bout u afford things”