Very insightful piece on what today's leaders don't understand now that they've started a war. We are in a culture that "has increasingly ceded authority to systems that mistake information for understanding and speed for judgment." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

In case you’re wondering who is getting rich from GOP decision to purge millions from Medicaid: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Iran’s oil earnings have nearly doubled since the war began. “The Intelligence” explains how years of sanctions-dodging prepared the country to profit from a war against it. Listen now

My latest -- For the Global Economy, ‘All Roads Lead to Higher Prices and Slower Growth’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/w...

Pretty shocking even for this administration: Hegseth's broker looking to buy defense stocks before Iran attacks. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “For all the uncertainties, one truth I feel deeply from having seen war up close: Old men should not fix their messes by dispatching young people to die in unnecessary wars,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

"The president's case against wind are literally the rantings of an old man. I've seen grandpa Simpson make more sense."

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

On the Daily, I expain why higher energy prices might be here for longer than you think. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/p...

My latest -- The attacks this past week shows how a relatively weak Iran can still exert enormous leverage over the global economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

The Trump admin keeps insisting that a lot of the accusations in the Epstein Files were baseless, and surely some were. But the FBI held FOUR different interviews with one of Trump's accusers and then SIX more with another accuser, which suggests the agents thought *these* women were on the level.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself. A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing traders to buy the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in case tariffs were struck down. trib.al/be2l16x

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

In Opinion “No one is likely to mistake contemporary Britain for a model democracy,” Fintan O’Toole writes. “And yet it is in Britain that some semblance of justice for the women and girls so ruthlessly exploited by Mr. Epstein’s network of well-connected men may be finally beginning to emerge.”

My latest - ‘Murky Waters’ for Global Businesses After Trump’s Tariff Loss www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Interesting take on how in Britain's case, a monarchy is subject to democratic norms of justice than the US www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Congressman Jamie Raskin just conducted an unannounced oversight visit to an ICE facility — and what he witnessed raises serious questions. Dozens of men were packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a single room with one toilet, no showers, and aluminum foil blankets — despite a massive federal budget.

Disgusting. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

ICE officers claimed they shot a Venezuelan man out of self-defense. Today, that case has been dismissed and those officers are under investigation for lying under oath—according to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. trib.al/RRdaWwU

really worth listening to or reading

Homeland Security is said to have sent Google and Meta hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or criticize ICE.

Americans Are Paying the Bill for Tariffs, Despite Trump’s Claims www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

My latest: Trump's threats to Greenland and seizure of Venezuelan oil are clear threats, but there are other, less obvious risks to countries' financial and tech sovereignty. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

As ICE hired droves of new agents last year, the immigration system lost staffers who process asylum claims and preside over court hearings, according to a New York Times analysis of government work force data.

New: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against the SAVE Act, the Trump-backed election bill www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

He doesn't know if the Census Bureau is part of the department he runs?! Or he doesn't know the Census Bureau establishes the poverty line? Either way, that's the kind of staggering admission of utter cluelessness that should get this ass-kissing toady shown the door

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @patcohen.bsky.social and John Everard on the prospects of peace in Ukraine and the day's other stuff, and an excerpt from the first episode of our new Olympics-adjacent pop-show, Monocle In Milan. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

The Epstein files “illuminate, in indelible detail, the ways in which Epstein’s money and connections appeared to count for more than his well-earned reputation as a sexual predator and procurer,” John Cassidy writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MPMVz8

There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state. That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.

Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump. The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files. What else are they hiding?

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Good’s vehicle after an immigration agent fatally shot her, but Trump administration officials ordered them to stop investigating. About a dozen prosecutors have since resigned, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

Politico: Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing federal rail tunnel funds www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Watch this, it's astonishing.

Trump now demands $1B from Harvard www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Binance is effectively paying 20% annual interest to holders of a Trump family-linked stablecoin, David Kirkpatrick reports in the New Yorker. The circulation volume of the stablecoin, World Liberty Financial's USD1, has since risen from $2 billion to $5 billion. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

If you want to understand Trump's governing style, forget James Monroe, Metternich or Machiavelli. Think Henry VIII and Emperor Charles V. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

How the White House is doctoring photos to spread disinformation and smear citizens. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

The Global Economy’s Warning Signals Are Kerflooey.....it's as if everyone were to start speeding up at a flashing light instead of slowing down. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Another little process of good government, mandated by law, broken by this administration’s whim. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Opinion| Trump’s approach to foreign policy is not just chaos or an updated version of 19th-century #great-power competition, write Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman. “He is pursuing something more out of the #16th-century, what we call #neoroyalist #international #politics.”

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

A new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti. Watch our visual investigation. nyti.ms/3YXeODB

My latest -- Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...

As federal agents stormed Minneapolis and residents banded together to protect their own, Charles Homan saw a dystopian future become reality. “The federal agents looked more like a platoon of soldiers navigating a hostile foreign capital than conventional law enforcement in an American city.”