That time I got a massive shoutout from Paul Krugman .... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-psycho... @pkrugman.bsky.social

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s military will have no problem with aggression. But warfare has at its heart the paradox of waging both war and peace, says @harshwords.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Great @harshwords.bsky.social piece on Hegseth's psychological assault on the US military. Historical precedent suggests it will end very poorly.

Yes, please! rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/escape-from-new-york

Those hoping for WW III were gravely disappointed. Here is my theory why @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Smart, serious writing by my editor @opinion.bloomberg.com Toby Harshaw @harshwords.bsky.social He is spot on! As the nuclear agreements fall into disuse, we are standing into danger. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Yep, to kick off his presidential fitness program, in the middle of the Epstein mess, Trump invited registered sex offender Lawrence Taylor to the White House. Cannot make this up offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sop...

MAGA is entirely different than Movement Conservatism, except for all the ways MAGA is consistent with Movement Conservatism. My latest: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

full story here www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/o...

When Trump blames "decades of neglect" for the state of US sea power, does he forget who was president for 4 of those neglectful years? Or which president initiated the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program in ... 2022? www.naval-technology.com/features/beg...

This is so tantalizingly close to Nicola Murray's "simple wooden toys for simple children" policy www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLqX...

No, the story here isn't that nearly half of voters gave him an F. It's that only half of Republicans gave him an A www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

More left hand-right hand amusement: Musk says “some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35 in an age of drones." Meanwhile ... www.npr.org/2025/03/22/n...

Excellent piece by Ben Casselman on why the gloating over the negative growth number is misplaced and the figure is "misleading." Don't worry, there will be a chance to gloat about shared misery in future quarters www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

The "typical monthly cost" of a market-rate apartment in NYC is $2,000? What neighborhood is that in, and how can I move there? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

yep,, because you know what New Yorkers really want is more homeless people in the subways and fewer cops gothamist.com/news/zohran-...

Doesn't this seem kinda, well, smart? I also wonder if they could lift the ban on prepared hot food at grocery stores, which are likely (maybe?) more healthful than McDonald's and BK, some of which take EBT in New York (and give 10% off) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Admiral Jim Stavridis had a lot of chats with that famous "DEI hire" Colin Powell www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

OTOH the percentage of federal government spending on academic R&D has plummeted over the longer stretch, from basically everything in the 50s to little more than half today

Never has a truer typo been written:

This is priceless: the chancellor at UC-Boulder saying that his inviting Lockheed to a career fair shows that the "we are truly content-neutral in our approach." Did I mention this was Boulder?! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

What do Trump's pals at the Heritage Foundation have to say about this?

Former NATO supreme commander thinks of all the ways Trump may harm Ukraine to appease Putin, shutting off the flow of intel is the dangerous www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"Musk suggested in a Fox Business interview Monday that his company had traced IP addresses to the 'Ukraine area.' The majority of the devices used to flood X with traffic were located in the US, Mexico, Spain, Italy and Brazil" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Filling the SPR while trashing trade with Canada is like filling a couple of jerry cans with fuel while also setting a match to your local gas station @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"I assume the bankruptcy judge has never seen a meme-coin bid before either. He’ll see it again, though" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Negotiating over Ukraine, Team Trump is going to be sitting across the table from Sergei Lavrov. @stavridisj has been there, done that www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Today’s newsletter is about the Corn Laws. Also tariffs, inflation, Mt McKinley and Abe Simpson. But mostly the Corn Laws www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In other words, the World's Greatest Negotiator has agreed to come to the table with an opening bid of the very minimum acceptable deal -- a diminished Ukraine with no map to closer integration with the West www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

I mean, how could you not trust this guy?

I was convinced that axing USAID was a bad idea, but now that I know it's all been turned over to Joe Lonsdale and the spawn of Leon Black, I can sleep easy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a) obviously true and b) NOT SOMETHING YOU SAY BEFORE YOU GET TO THE TABLE!! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very strong opinions and ideas." wow. just wow.

Thank goodness my "hide and skins" imports will be least affected

I feel like this piece took almost as long to write as it did Iraq to become a "real place." So please read it. All of it. There is a surprise treat at the end. Maybe. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

One would think we learned our lesson about disastrous long-term counterinsurgency operations a couple decades back .... www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is a pretty smart piece. the other thing is that most of these delusional old men lead countries that once had empires that they have mythologized and sworn to resurrect www.persuasion.community/p/the-worlds...

Whereas most of the continental monarchs claimed they were chosen by God, the British ones didn't. Guess which ones ended on the guillotine and which survived to make terrible organic wine: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

This is no way to fight a cold war: "Americans and their representatives support competing with China only so long as doing so doesn’t cause them much discomfort." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I just tried to link to the 2022 National Security Strategy for a piece I am editing, and look what came up:

Wow, just wow

Excellent from WaPo. It's not surprising that the Getty Center escaped the fire -- it's designed for it. But the anti-fire preparations at the Getty Villa are fairly remarkable and seem like things homeowners could do: clear brush, irrigate heavily, etc www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Hmmmmmmmmm madison.com/familiar-fac...

Clive Crook nails it: "Trust isn’t just about honesty. It’s also about competence." The transformational agenda was not what voters elected Biden for. It gave so little trust in his competence, and hence Harris', that a convicted grifter seemed more reliable www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I feel like a lot of people have come into this thing with a preconceived notion that congestion pricing would be a great success. every day i walk up Lex just below 60th and there is still gridlock, blocked crosswalks, trucks trying to drive over me exactly like before they had to pay $9

This writers would no doubt agree www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I can't wait until Hegseth's "warrior ethos" meets the next 311-page appropriations bill www.congress.gov/118/crpt/hrp...

All good points: insurers are raking in record profits yet pulling out of tough situations; climate change is exacerbating wildfires, etc. But maybe just maybe these people shouldn't have been building multimillion-dollar homes in firetraps in the first place?

Tyler Cowen says China's new LLM learned its biggest lesson from a dead Austrian: Ludwig von Mises www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This is often true: "voters make decisions based more on value perceptions than policy positions." But it's also true that to this crowd of voters the Dem policies were as "weird" as their nose rings and blue hair www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...