“No other recent American president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes, legal experts, historians and former U.S. officials say.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

The first reviews of LONDON FALLING are posting and as a devoted longtime reader of @lauramille.bsky.social at Slate, I'm so grateful for this one.

Half a century ago, Norman Podhoretz celebrated the fact that virtually all American Jews had been “converted to Zionism.” Fifty years later, the consensus he hailed has shattered, as I report in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thrilled to announce my book, SEASONS OF FURY, will be out on August 25. Based on years of reporting and archival research, this book is a narrative history that follows four families to trace the rise of Islamophobia in the US. You can pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672414...

Remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against protesters there. $30 million in funds. Inside how Cameroon and the U.S. struck a deal over third-country migrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students. under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest. the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023 (1/4)

Big news. One man, Suhail Najim Abdullah Al Shimari, was detained from 2003-2008, and held in Abu Ghraib for 2 months. CACI "tortured him in various ways: he was subjected to electric shocks, deprived of food, threatened by dogs, and kept naked."

BREAKING: Pentagon Report: U.S. Attcked Elementary School in Iran Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran. theintercept.com/2026/03/11/i...

In the first week of war, the US struck 3,000 Iranian targets (now up to 5,500) with an unknown number of munitions and Israel struck 3,400 targets with 7,500 munitions. This allows an interesting comparison to Gaza, where Israel struck 3,600 targets with 6,000 munitions in the first 6 days…

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW @nytimes.com ANALYSIS: In 2008 (the last election before Citizens United), billionaires accounted for 0.3% of federal election spending. In 2024, 300 billionaires & their immediate families accounted for 19% of all spending, either directly or through PACs, totaling $3B+.

A hidden benefit of the Iran war for Netanyahu and his supporters: averting attention from the crimes of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Acc to witnesses in southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have killed dozens, Israeli soldiers disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today is the start of Russia’s February Revolution, which swept a hemophiliac autocracy from its throne. In honor of the day, me and One World are doing a preorder giveaway for my book! This is open to any US resident preordering my book from anywhere sites.prh.com/molly-crabap...

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Gutting international desks is troubling for another reason : deeply reported coverage helps shape foreign policy, and affects thousands of lives abroad. Washington Post journalists have done tremendous work documenting the horrors of US wars, and shifting national convo.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

"The ruling, if it were to stand, would have major implications for anyone detained as the Trump administration sought to deport them. It would remove the most effective means that immigration lawyers have for freeing their clients from detention while they are in immigration proceedings."

two messages

"The man shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents has been charged" really captures the reality of today.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Inkstick’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 (So Far) Ft. - @jmhattem.bsky.social - @mollycrabapple.bsky.social - Robin Andersen - Lionel & Liz Morrison - @rozinaali.bsky.social - @reecejones.bsky.social & Greg Boos

[email protected] has produced an excellent podcast series called "Aftershock" that revisits its coverage of the War on Terror. A must listen www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

Haunting photos by Victor Blue from Syria in @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

This is an astonishing, must-read, and chilling piece. "The old admonition of authoritarian regimes everywhere — If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to be afraid of — has no meaning in Gaza." nymag.com/intelligence...

The Pentagon officials, in a classified briefing, acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors. theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...

Zohran Mamdani's opponents seem dangerously close to saying there's something wrong about a Muslim leading NYC. I wrote about Mamdani and Islamophobia for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump admin shifted $8bn from R&D funds, and accepted a $130mn donation, to pay military. Meanwhile, the govt will not use emergency funds to pay for food stamp benefits in Nov. 42m Americans rely on food stamps

Hell. nymag.com/intelligence...

Leqaa Kordia faces deportation for protesting the war in Gaza, in which she lost more than 175 of her relatives. She is the last Columbia protestor still in ICE detention. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

My latest piece, in this week's @newyorker.com, is the story of what happens when the government declares war on an entire population based on little more than fear, confusion, and racial animus. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Democrats are losing voters nationwide

"The Legitimization Cell's motivation was not security, but public relations"

2 weeks ago: “This is not the first time [Anas] Al-Sharif has been targeted by the Israeli military, but the danger to his life is now acute” Throughout the 22 months of US-backed war in Gaza, clear warnings have gone unheeded—a choice by policymakers in DC under Biden+Trump cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-...

So many roads lead back to 1996. apnews.com/article/immi...

New book coming.

Hello: I'm collecting examples of anti-Muslim remarks people in the United States have received over their lives. Please fill out this survey fill out this survey if it applies to you (and please share!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about the Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as a dangerous criminal and gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1977...

Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class: newrepublic.com/article/1954...

Mamdani won 545,334 votes, the largest vote total in 36 years since former Mayor David Dinkins won with 547,000 votes in 1989 over former Mayor Ed Koch. Granted, that was not a ranked-choice election.

The types of Qs CBP is asking these days, including to journalists

An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...