Jason B. Rosenthal, of "You May Want to Marry My Husband" fame, on leaving the family home where he spent so many happy and full years with his late wife, Amy. medium.com/moms-dont-have…

"There are espresso martinis, chocolate martinis...a “tequila-lime martini” is a fraud but traveling under its rightful title of Margarita, it is one of the world’s great cocktails. But all such false martinis are insults to the original." ourford.medium.com/dont-call-that…

Q: Are you comfortable with the protests that we saw outside the homes of Supreme Court justices? Schumer: Yes. my house, there's protests 3, 4 times a week outside.. That's the American way to peacefully protest.. [his phone rings].. that's my wife. Maybe there's a protest."

Wow. I will never forget using a pay phone on Avenue A after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power and cell service to make two calls: one telling my mom I was ok, and one telling a Newsweek cover writer that his meeting with my boss was canceled because our office had flooded.

“States’ rights” until states do things Republicans don’t like. See also, pending SCOTUS ruling on New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen.

I am more certain of this than I have ever been. Stop lockdown drills in all schools, immediately. It does nothing to protect kids. All it does is traumatize them, and in the worst case, plant the idea for some of them.

Always a bummer for artists to lose big bucks…but The Irishman really is the poster child for carte blanche. There could have been an amazing 1.5 hour movie somewhere in there!

Now you KNOW this doesn't happen on This Old House. (TOH fans, reveal yourselves!)

When women don’t have the right to make reproductive choices about their own bodies, we lose a foundational right. When we lose foundational rights, all rights are threatened. 2/5

“You can try to cut back [on screen time] through discipline. But why not just make your life more interesting instead?”  link.medium.com/l5C83WgvGrb

“Instead of a street serving diverse purposes — as they did for millennia, before the automobile came along — today’s urban roads have only one major function: Moving gas-powered vehicles around.” — Clive Thompson link.medium.com/KHgQfmb11rb

Exciting new beta at Medium!

Thinking about my favorite passage from Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children,’ the Indira Gandhi green and black fever dream. Arguably the greatest book of the 20th century.

"You ever have somebody come to you and you get the vibe they want something from you, but they’re also telling you that you’re a piece of shit?" Truly good interview with Wheatus frontman on the ups and downs of "Teenage Dirtbag" observer.com/2022/08/the-ma…

New Medium: Custom domains are back! Mobile editor is coming back! Reverse chron feed is here! blog.medium.com/custom-domains…

Happy 10th anniversary to Medium — I loved reading back through this timeline all we've done and the incredible voices we have hosted in our first 10 years blog.medium.com/it-happened-on…

Have you updated yet today? Mobile editing is back in our @medium apps!

I love Nir Zicherman's way of thinking about what motivates you professionally: is it new opportunities, new experiences, or getting better at the thing you already do? medium.com/@NirZicherman/…

So crushed to hear of Javier Marias's death. I would have read new books from him for years to come. If you haven't read A Heart So White or Thus Bad Begins, I highly, highly recommend. What a shame that he'll no longer be a perennial Nobel frontrunner. theguardian.com/world/2022/sep…

About all of those viral Instagram stories... x.com/Newsweek/statu…