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“The marketing whizzes at Harvard Business School haven’t written a case study on the genius of the Nobel Foundation, but perhaps they should,” Gisela Salim-Peyer writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"The main ideology the Nobel Foundation appears to be committed to, however, is the importance of preserving the prestige of the Nobel Prize—and in this it has succeeded. If there were a prize for prizes, the Nobel would win every year." Gisela Salim-Peyer theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“Arguments that the conflict is too complex to compare…have always rung hollow, especially given that both Jim Crow and South African apartheid were often characterized by their defenders as too singular for outsiders to comprehend.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"When Black folks who were raised on stories of lynchings and the threat of obliteration—stories of the Tulsa Massacre, of the quelling of Nat Turner’s Rebellion, of the Red Summer—look at Gaza, how could they not see something they recognize?" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Maduro’s release of political prisoners shows they are seen as bargaining chips — the question is in exchange for what. The US govt can press the regime to open the door to a democratic transition. It should seize it. My quote for ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2024/11/18/wor…

Phenomenal & infuriating 👏👏👏 Daniel Engber

My latest, on Venezuela's post-election nightmare:

Please read this extraordinary report from the great Colm Tóibín on life among the California fires. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/… London Review of Books

Trump was outraged by Bishop Budde’s remarks, and predictably so. Those vested with an abundance of worldly power should find the radical Christian message of mercy hard to hear, Elizabeth Bruenig writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Trump administration has stripped away the legal-immigration status of 600,000 Venezuelans who had permission to live and work in the United States, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes: theatlantic.com/international/…

To each their own, I guess!! theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Phenomenal reporting

The good thing about the rise in egg prices is that Annie Lowrey wrote about it!! theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"Even under democracy, the dictatorship’s silence lingers." Gisela Salim-Peyer reviews "I'm Still Here," the Oscar-nominated chronicle of one family's encounter with military dictatorship in Brazil. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-gh…

one of the biggest lessons of the Trump era is that ideas matter just a handful of people convinced of the dumbest crap are destroying trillions in wealth and re-making the world into a poorer, less reciprocal, more war-prone version of itself. libs have gotta post more

Bukele is known for getting rid of El Salvador's gangs. But, for much of his career, he didn't seem to mind gangs all that much. What he really wanted was getting rid of street vendors: theatlantic.com/international/…

"Dayana spent the next six months in a prison so overcrowded that she slept on the floor and avoided standing up, worried that she would lose her spot." my friend Gisela Salim-Peyer on el salvador's harrowing prison system for The Atlantic theatlantic.com/international/…

Today April 11, thousands of Venezuelans received a DHS e-mail telling them that whatever protected status, parole and labor authorizations they had, these will expire in 7 days. It prompts them to leave the US before that or be subject to criminal prosecution. It’s despicable!!