Yesterday World Central Kitchen went to Palisades to support firefighters Fire Station 69 and give them the recognition and support they deserve….they fought an impossible battle…but now they are at the heart of the fight against the fire and being a support Fire house for many crews

LA County has launched a site where people can look up addresses in the Eaton & Palisades evacuation zones to see if they've been damaged, destroyed or are untouched by the fires. Red = destroyed; Black = untouched; Yellow Green & Orange = damaged. In some areas, it's all red.

Beautifully written piece about loss, parents, memories and how a place continues to have meaning throughout our lives no matter how much time goes by or how it changes. latimes.com/california/sto…

Southern CalifornIa wildfires in photos: What's gone, what's left #PalisadesFire #EatonFires ktla.com/news/californi…

New: As the community of Pacific Palisades, California, burns, ProPublica's Tim Golden reflects on how the blaze will transform his hometown. propub.li/42bsXja

Sad to hear that David Lynch, one of the most original minds of our time, has returned to the mystery. Here is his short, soaring reflection on the mystery of creativity: themarginalian.org/2014/05/09/dav…

Destruction at this scale was not inevitable, @ZoeSchlanger writes. What measures will be taken to limit the damage next time? theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

My review of Jules Feiffer’s 2010 memoir “Backing into Forward”: “like the best of Mr. Feiffer’s cartoons: funny, acerbic, subversive, fiercely attuned to the absurdities in his own life and in the country at large.” nytimes.com/2010/03/18/boo…

nytimes.com/2025/02/05/boo… via @NYTimes

Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it | Laurence H Tribe | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Trump administration is waging a "wholesale assault on U.S. science," an effort that threatens the country’s health, economic development, national security and scientific preeminence. That’s according to an open letter published by nearly 2,000 doctors, scientists and

My review of Pope Francis’ eloquent 2016 book “The Name of God Is Mercy.” A book in which he writes as a pastor, emphasizing moral sincerity over dogma, an understanding of the complexities of the world and individual experience over doctrine. Of the poor, the homeless and those

“I renew my fervent appeal to allow for the entry of fair humanitarian help and to bring to an end the hostilities, the devastating price of which is paid by children, the elderly and the sick." Story: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

My novel Vera, Or Faith, coming out July 8th, on the NYT list of hot summer books! nytimes.com/2025/05/22/boo…

The U.S. has been able to attract some of the best young people from abroad. How would American science, tech, or medicine fare without foreign students who become American residents or citizens? Nativism will lead to a dumber and poorer America. nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…

A 2022 study found that ¼ of unicorn companies in the US had a founder that first came to the US as an international student. Deterring world-class talent from coming to the US and building things here is a great way to kill America’s economic edge. nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…

Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House

My new essay for The New York Times looks at why today's most prominent fans of Tolkien's epic "The Lord of the Rings" are Silicon Valley tech lords like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and politicians on the far right in Europe and the United States. How did a trilogy of novels

Appeals court rules that the president can punish a news outlet based on the content of its coverage by denying it access that it has had for generations. If the decision stands, it represents a major blow to press freedom. Zach Montague Minho Kim nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/…