Powell: Executive summary would be growth is solid to strong over the course of last year. The labor market, 3.7% unemployment indicates that the labor market is strong. We have seen inflation come down.. Let’s be honest. This is a good economy

"US leadership brought huge dividends, from arms sales to trade deals...It was a bargain, while it lasted. Americans may not grasp or care about the scale of their retreat. But they will live with its consequences." View from London, from Edward Lucas thetimes.co.uk/article/us-mes…

Vaccine preventable diseases: Chicken pox Diphtheria Flu Hep A Hep B Hib HPV Measles Meningococcus Mumps Polio Pneumococcus Rotavirus Rubella RSV Tetanus Whooping cough

During the pandemic, lawmakers temporarily expanded the social safety net and the child poverty rate dropped to its lowest level on record. As benefits have expired, the child poverty rate has more than doubled. to.pbs.org/3TQmrtF

Four years ago today, I walked into the apocalypse. Crossing the line in the ER felt like entering a whole other world. Frenetic alarms. Patients strewn about, struggling to breathe. Too few staff. Too many deaths. Covid was everything. It had completely taken over our ER

James Baldwin said reading Dickens taught him that the things that tormented him most were the very things connecting him with everyone who had ever lived. “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

The eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses is unacceptable. Demonstrators at Columbia University calling for Jews to return to Poland—where three million Jews were murdered—is an insult to Holocaust memory. Appropriate authorities must protect Jewish students.

It turns out that the Robert and Michelle King show Brain Dead (2016 cbs) was actually a documentary.

We are forever indebted to our World War II veterans—and especially now, as we mark 80 years since D-Day and the start of the Allied liberation of France from Nazi occupation.   Our World War II veterans saved the free world. We must merely defend it.

Every American needs to see the photos of this antisemitic attack The director and several board members of the Brooklyn Museum had their homes vandalized with revolting intolerance This is not America We must confront this bigotry The perpetrators must be held accountable

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It is with enormous sadness that we announce the passing of Claes H. Dohlman, MD, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Emeritus, and former Chief and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School. eye.hms.harvard.edu/claesdohlman

Claes Dohlman, who restored sight with artificial cornea, dies at 101 wapo.st/4d4PmB6

It's with great sadness that we announce the passing of Claes H. Dohlman, MD, PhD, professor of Ophthalmology, Emeritus, and former chief and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Ophthalmology. spklr.io/6011SsW9

As part of my regular series on lost positives, I’m happy to report that you can be ‘consolate’ as well as ‘disconsolate’. If you’re lucky, you can also be gruntled, feckful, woeless, and in a state of total array.

Today's deal included the release of seven Russian political prisoners. They stood up for democracy and their own leaders threw them in prison. We helped secure their release because we stand for freedom – not just for our own people but for others as well. That's who we are.

Nearly 70% of US faculty members hold contingent (nontenured/non-TT) appointments compared to about 47% in 1987. This trend is not sustainable if #academicfreedom is to survive in our society. insidehighered.com/news/faculty-i…

Walz, 60, has drawn criticism for appearing older than his age. Walz responded on X, saying that it’s because he “supervised the lunchroom for 20 years. You do not leave that job with a full head of hair. Trust me.” 😅🤣

This photo, my god (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)