What the salad tried to do to us. The first ambition of any plant is to make itself uneatable. Long before anything clever walked on earth, plants settled on poisoning anything with a mouth. If you can’t run, you better taste terrible. The only way to stay alive was to face

NYMag feels like one of the only publications that’s capable of doing this on a regular basis

There's a great NYT piece from Ruth Igielnik out today - she demonstrates how voters who are paying more attention to specific news stories are less likely to approve of Trump. This generally goes with a key finding from the election - that less regular/informed voters were

This is a stunning tour de force by Joe Bernstein. One of the most affecting pieces of writing I've read in good long while. nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

This is fascinating. Little by little it's sinking in that the Trump-Vance effort to strangle the clean energy manufacturing industry will actually cede the technological race to China, which directly contradicts their stated rationale for it:

“You and I will come to an end somewhere. The most beautiful poem in the world falls quiet,” 23-year-old Parnia Abbasi wrote, who was among 224 Iranians killed by Israeli strikes so far. Nick Paton Walsh takes a closer look at the toll on civilians across Iran.

“An hour before the Air India flight took off, he spoke to his father and told him that he would call again after landing in London,” Mr. Lande said. “That call never came.” Hari Kumar nytimes.com/2025/06/15/wor…

American politics, am I right?

one year ago today, I was on the craziest flight of all time

Sharp stuff from John Ganz on the real meaning of Trump's inroads with working class nonwhites. FWIW I spent time reporting out what happened with the Latino vote in Reading, PA (see piece below) and what I found very much supports John's reading unpopularfront.news/p/what-it-took…

AFP warning its Gaza reporters are at risk of literally starving to death - having risked their lives for so long to tell the story that Israel prevents the international media from reaching.

How New Jersey politicians talk about the state: “I’m proud to raise my family in a state I love.” How I want New Jersey politicians to talk about the state: “I tremble to represent New Jersey, the cradle of global modernity; indeed, the pivot point of world-history itself.”

We interviewed Sen. Elissa Slotkin today about Israel's genocide in Gaza and the responsibility of those in power.

Mariam Dagga, visual freelance journalist for AP, chronicled the wounded & dead that every day flowed into southern Gaza’s main hospital. Dagga was killed today by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital. A gallery of her photos, curated by AP photo editors: apnews.com/photo-gallery/…

Thank you big bro. I fuck w the hulk

It's pub day for Cory Doctorow's great book Enshittification, about how the internet got systematically worse and what we can do about it. moe tkacik was the perfect person to review this, and it does not disappoint. prospect.org/culture/books/…

an indictment of Congress in this WSJ story by Josh Dawsey

Zohran Mamdani on The Daily. Read it. Listen to it. >> nytimes.com/2025/10/16/pod…

The team behind the Oscar-winning documentary ‘NO OTHER LAND’ is planning to self-release the film on U.S. streaming platforms starting October 20. Including Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, and YouTube, with 100% of VOD proceeds going directly to Palestinian communities of

just watched mississippi masala for the first time, proud of my mom