The capital’s rapid transit system, a testament to the value of good public design, is a work of Brutalist beauty and timeless civic dignity. on.wsj.com/4a22tUk

Delighted to be named a @umwallacehouse.bsky.social Livingston Award finalist for the SECOND (!!!) time in 3 years, after a year that was personally difficult and challenging in many respects. Thanks to David Smiley and @bwieder.bsky.social for the edits! wallacehouse.umich.edu/announcing-t...

Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.

The Criterion Collection’s series of restored international films returns with a set featuring movies from Algeria, Burkina Faso, India and Kazakhstan. on.wsj.com/4r0wx9u

“We (English) grow up with the narrative that Australian cricket has always reflected its red-rock interior: a place where hard men toil on hard wickets.” But an #Ashes trip Down Under shows #Australia protecting cricket’s soul in a way #England has lost www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

NEW: SEC was investigating Epstein before his death, Epstein Files reveal amp.miamiherald.com/news/busines...

The small gestures that connect us on.ft.com/3L0HN5X | opinion

Ann Hermes spent six years photographing American newsrooms, from Juneau to St. Louis, forming a witty and elegiac portrait of local journalism in action. See her images. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YCzYut

NEW ESSAY — In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. Thea Applebaum Licht charts the course of this alluring aesthetic tradition: publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...

Niki Lauda batting during a charity cricket match featuring most Formula One drivers. It took place on July 21st 1974, the day after the British Grand Prix, at Brands Hatch

A high-grade copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, closed at $7.6 million on Heritage Auctions on Thursday, making it the most expensive comic book sold at auction.

Other potential people Epstein considered included deceased Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson and Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen.

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my favorite work-album turned 50 today

40 years ago, three Norwegians turned a homemade melody into a pop revolution. “Take on Me” fills dance floors and still earns a formidable income for A-ha. The Post caught up with the 80s band to discuss the song’s unexpected afterlife.

NEW @miamiherald.com: Seniors in Miami-Dade — the county with the highest share of food stamp beneficiaries with one elderly member in the household — risk going hungry as federal government shutdown continues (GIFT LINK)

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"Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth." — Herman Melville; MOBY-DICK OR, THE WHALE

Last year a @merrillcollege.bsky.social grad student told me she wanted to build a news app about evictions in DC. Given the schedule and amount of work, it was an ambitious project. Taylor Nichols not only did it but got it published by a DC news org! streetsensedc.github.io/evictions-ap...

Buz Ecker, 67, and other dads his daughter has recruited have since spent hours writing to strangers looking for pick-me-ups — including to many whose fathers have died. The volunteer-run group is called the Dad Letter Project. https://wapo.st/4ngbcH0

One more note on Robert Redford and his particular type of on-screen hero: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/m...

SCOOP: Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions.

Books, magazines. and classrooms are great antidotes to the toxic rabbit holes of cable news, social media, ChatGPT, and video games. Unfortunately the resources of our society are devoted to building up the latter and destroying the former.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

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Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-f...

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Breaking News: The A.I. firm Anthropic agreed to a record $1.5 billion settlement for illegally downloading and storing copyrighted books.

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Daniel Levy steps down as Tottenham chairman with immediate effect

genuinely one of the most upsetting things i’ve ever read

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I wrote about Mujica Lainez’s grotesque, glorious masterpiece Bomarzo, which deserves to be as well known in English as One Hundred Years of Solitude, for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. Newly reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social books.substack.com/p/review-mic...

Since LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is in the news today for some alleged behind-the-scenes shenanigans, it's worth looking at this 2021 @propublica.org story showing how Ballmer, one of the world's wealthiest people, paid a lower tax rate than the vendors selling drinks at Clippers games:

The biggest concentration of billionaires, 255 of them, is in California. But the super rich also run businesses in such remote spots as Ridgeland, Miss., and Waunakee, Wisc.

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One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...

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Exclusive: A group of House lawmakers from across the political spectrum has agreed on a proposal that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina inflicted unprecedented devastation along the Gulf Coast, killing at least 1,392 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. After several levee failures, officials estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was inundated. https://wapo.st/3URwMW8

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Nvidia reported revenue of $46.7bn for the quarter to July 28, up 56% year on year, as the tech giant at the heart of the AI boom signalled resilient growth. on.ft.com/4p13QJ6

Manchester United, a post-satire football club for a post-satire age.

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