Secretary Kennedy Is My Cousin. He Sounds More Like Roy Cohn than His Late Father My slain uncles were politicians, not saints, but they belonged to a time when it mattered to rise above division, find unity in tragedy, and celebrate moral courage: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/24/r...

Constitutional law professors @garrettepps.bsky.social and @petershane.bsky.social dissect Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s recent opinion justifying the continuation of racially-motivated ICE raids in Los Angeles. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/24/t...

Heartening result - at least we haven't all been brainwashed. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The misery of immigrant detainees has become a windfall for Geo Group, the nation’s largest private prison company. (I also write about Geo’s profiteering and exploitation of the poor in my book.) www.fastcompany.com/91396722/the...

Unhinged. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/c...

Democrats need to capitalize on this refusal by Trump to even meet about a shutdown as evidence of Trump's unserious approach to governance. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The US News college rankings are out. But if you want a different - and better - take on the best colleges in America, check out @washingtonmonthly.com's College Guide and Rankings. We found the unsung heroes of higher ed. washingtonmonthly.com/2025-college...

New NBER study shows mixed results from test-optional college admissions policies. These policies did not encourage more applications from underrepresented students, but these schools admitted more low scorers with high grades, including first-gen and minorities. www.nber.org/papers/w3426...

More evidence of private equity's destructive impact on US health care: www.newsweek.com/er-patient-d...

Apparently, this is what SecDef Pete Hegseth really meant when he was referring to "lethality" in our armed forces. NYT reports that DoD won't be cleaning up PFAS from 140 military installations, despite known health risks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/c...

Trump's latest executive order designates an imaginary organization - "Antifa" - as a "terrorist threat." If this weren't also a pretext for Trump to harass his enemies, it would be utterly laughable. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Nicely bold NYT headline for once: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Release the Homan files and tapes.

The tyranny of weak men.

Louisiana, Texas and Idaho are the next targets of efforts by anti-vax advocates to end school vaccination mandates, per POLITICO. The growing red/blue geographic divide on public health means major disparities in children's health outcomes a decade from now. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

“When historians look back on this moment in American history, the date that may stand out to them is . . . Sept. 15, when [VP Vance] promised that the federal government would use the assassination [of Charlie Kirk] to begin cracking down on leftist organizations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

Reduced access to benefits due to staff cuts and bureaucracy is “pushing many of the poorest Americans closer to the financial edges: potential homelessness, food insecurity and suicidal ideation.” www.axios.com/2025/09/22/t...

Stephen Miller is terrifying - and he's the puppet master behind the throne. Dark times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d29b...

Hiding the data won't change the fact the suffering is real. apnews.com/article/trum...

The Trump administration has shown zero integrity or respect for the rule of law. The American people deserve real answers and full transparency around the criminal investigation of Tom Homan.

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

States warn that changes to food stamp funding included in the “one big beautiful” act could result in the *elimination* of programs if states can’t afford to pay. 42 million Americans - many elderly, disabled, or children - are at risk of going hungry. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

I talked to the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator’s Joel Dodge about Trump’s unique brand of authoritarian-flavored industrial policy for this week’s @washingtonmonthly.com roundup: open.substack.com/pub/washingt...

Trump can't prosecute *all* of us. So I think we all now understand the assignment. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

JUST IN: US Atty in Alexandria VA, Erik Siebert, resigned today after coming under pressure from Trump to bring criminal charges against NY AG Letitia James. Trump said he lost confidence in Siebert because VA's 2 Dem senators backed him. w/@aaronpellish www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Brazen lawlessness: Three Trump cronies would have been liable for up to $817 million in restitution to fraud victims before the SEC decided to drop civil enforcement claims. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Trump continuing his campaign to destroy the US economy. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"Only about half in the GOP see the nation on the right course, down from 70% in June." apnews.com/article/poll...

Former FCC lawyer to NPR, on media companies so swiftly caving into the agency’s demands: “A spine is a terrible thing to waste.” Listen: www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

"President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York AG Letitia James. Every red light is blinking at once." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dog-th...

Free Kimmel. Impeach Carr. Impeach Trump washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/19/f...

This is basically the citizenship equivalent of a poll tax. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Outrageous. Kimmel should absolutely refuse.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

The administration is vastly underestimating how angry parents are going to be about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

This is absolutely outrageous. patch.com/virginia/mcl...

This is great news for Maryland community colleges. www.arnoldventures.org/newsroom/gov...

If you read one thing today, read this: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Given that "antifa" doesn't actually exist as an organization, this represents a dangerous escalation in Trump's efforts to crack down on his opponents - all of whom can now be conveniently labeled "antifa terrorists." www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: "Is a basic understanding of the First Amendment too much to expect from the nation’s Attorney General?" "Ms. Bondi hasn’t had a distinguished tenure as AG...But she is a law enforcer, ... and she’s sworn to uphold the Constitution."

It’s in the economic interest of insurance companies to cover vaccines (paying for a measles shot is way cheaper than paying for measles treatment), but this is still significant: Insurers say they’ll cover routine vaccinations, even if RFK’s CDC says otherwise. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

Ultimate irony of ironies - today is Constitution Day. www.constitutionday.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

ABC: What a disgrace. Taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air for this: “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”

If you read one thing today, read this: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

“Our Attorney General is apparently a moron. ‘There’s free speech and then there is hate speech,’” conservative radio host Erick Erickson wrote on X, quoting Bondi. 'No ma’am. That is not the law.'” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

South Korean citizens detained at the Georgia Hyundai factory say “they faced poor conditions at detention centers such as having to use and eat near open toilets.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

A huge, monthslong data investigation from @NBCNews.com into childhood vaccination rates finds immunizations declining significantly. I was part of the dozens of journalists working on this story, which will be part of tonight’s NBC Nightly News broadcast. www.nbcnews.com/specials/vac...