Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

Australia wants to jail Elon. Women tie their tubes. Mike Johnson is sticking around. Plus: China might not have been honest about the pandemic.

Outrage continues over the Uvalde massacre of last Tuesday, May 24, in which 21 people were killed and 17 wounded. The assault on this elementary school stands out for many reasons: the youth of the victims, the apparent mishandling of the situation by law enforcement officers, and the heroism of the parents, for example. After all, there have been at least 14 mass shootings in the U.S. since the Uvalde murders, killing at least 10 people and wounding another 61, and they have gotten much less attention.

Yesterday, in a long story about “the petty feud between the [New York Times] and the White House,” Eli Stokols of Politico suggested that the paper’s negative coverage of President Joe Biden came from the frustration of its publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, at Biden’s refusal to do an exclusive interview with the paper. Two people told Stokols that Sulzberger’s reasoning is that only an interview with an established paper like the

Everything we are seeing is fruit of the Big Lie. And it’s going to get worse.

The polling isn't there yet, but Biden is delivering on the job, MAGA is extreme and dangerous, the GOP is a dumpster fire, and Trump is the ugliest political figure in our lifetimes. After a hellish week at SCOTUS, some hopium for the weekend pod from Simon Rosenberg. Plus, Tim Miller reads from the mailbag.

Reclaiming some time, from a House hearing on free speech

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Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.

Since October 7th, the Israeli bombardment, siege, and invasion of Gaza has led to the deadliest period for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began gathering data more than 30 years ago. At least 90 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in this war,

There's a neglected dimension beyond gender in America's troubled youth

Should we cut interest rates?

Today’s widely discussed Trump post on Truth Social isn’t just another instance of bad behavior. It’s not just a shrug of the shoulders and a resigned sigh of, “What are you going to do?” Far too often, people resignedly accept Trump’s behavior because they believe there’s no alternative. The zeitgeist is: We can’t make him stop, can we?

Wednesday night, I promised you we would go deeper into the Idaho abortion case, which I was concerned would get less attention than it deserved in this Trump-heavy environment. So here we are, with my friend Dara Kass, a distinguished emergency medicine physician and the woman you would want to see if you were walking into the ER with a serious emergency. In addition to her chops with patients, she recently finished serving in the Biden Administration as the Regional Director for Region II in the United States Department of Health a Human Services. Before that, she was an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being told to make their classroom libraries — and any other "unvetted" book — inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution. The new policy is part of an effort to comply with new laws and regulations championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R). It is based on the premise, promoted by right-wing advocacy groups, that teachers and librarians are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, 14 states have imposed near-total abortion bans. (Arizona may soon join them.) While all of these states include exemptions to save the life of the mother, the language is inherently vague. The abortion bans typically allow for emergency abortions to prevent "serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" or "serious, permanent impairment of a life-sustaining organ." But the laws do not address "expectations regarding the most common obstetric complications that can lead to late-stage pregnancy loss, such as previable premature rupture of membranes, excessive bleeding, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, or placental abruption."

Thoughts about heightism

And Michael Johnson’s absurd demand

How painfully, cringingly super-woke must a comedian get to stay relevant?

For contest #416, the false field didn't deter dozens of sleuths with correct guesses. (Trigger warning for vegans: deer nuts roasting on an open fire.)

I like number 6 the best...

Donald: A Supreme Embarrassment

The truth is what it is

The unintended consequences that could affect the election

Shielding Biden from public appearances might be a rational strategy -- and that's why it's a bad sign.

Student loan relief isn't a big deal to most voters. And the youth voter turnout surge of 2022 is a myth.

This is a story about lying. Public lying. It is a story about Senator John McCain’s lying, and the damage it has done to many people, including me. It is also a story about my lying because, ultimately, John McCain’s lie became mine. Over time, that lie has become heavier as I have been abused by the family of the man I worked for

My beautiful Bernese Mountain Dog Teddy will be turning seven this summer, so my heart sank the other day when I felt a hard mass under his left front armpit. He’s a big, strong, active dog, who has been limping lately, so we were very worried before we found it. Now we’re waiting for the vet to give us a ring with what could be terrible news.

“Two weeks ago, no one even heard of Katie Britt,” the senator said. “Now, my kitchen will be in the Smithsonian right next to exhibits about Custer’s Last Stand and the Titanic. Not bad, y’all.”

“In a complex and confusing world, I always felt that there was at least one news outlet that could make sense of it all,” one longtime subscriber said. “That’s been stolen from me.”

I’m off today from my regular Xeets and Giggles (which will post tomorrow), but for a very special reason: I am excited to begin a new chapter. As most of you know, I lost my darling doghter Hudson in July to a terrible accident that happened while I was away. After the initial shock and pain of her death subsided, I carried a deep grief for many months. Many times it was hard to summon the will to engage in work, self-care, and social contact with others. At the time, my heart still hadn’t healed from losing Ma, my company that I’d built for the last decade was floundering and going through cutbacks and layoffs, and it was admittedly hard to see the good through all the sadness and anxiety.

Yesterday’s SCOTUS oral argument was a disheartening and scary glimpse into an autocratic future. But there still might be a narrow path forward to trial before the election.

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The night before the insurrection, a large group of Trump family and advisers held an urgent meeting with January 6 organizers at the president's private residence in DC.

The testimony America is getting from Pecker—and will continue to get from him when he retakes the stand in Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial Thursday—is a pale shadow of the unvarnished truth below.

We have crossed 1000 deaths in the United States. Here is the present number in the situation. A lot of people want to push the narrative that we are just like Italy, things will wind up like Italy, and we are all going to die. But events change things. We have better medical capabilities. There are parts of the country that may have problems, but overall don’t believe the scare scenarios. The situation is bad enough. There are real concerns. But we’re not all going to die. The worst-case scenario is a scenario, not reality.

A viral clip took the internet by storm earlier this week of a pastor in Charlotte, North Carolina admonishing any Christian who believes it is their spiritual obligation to vote. Without naming names, Loran Livingston took exception with the Trump Bible that incorporates the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Livingston went so far as to claim that Christians don’t have a civic responsibility to vote but a civic privilege.

The embattled Harvard president’s dissertation raises troubling questions.

The NPR boss is a symbol of regime change—foreign and domestic.

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Democrats need to push past our 2016 emotional trauma and project confidence.

The President and the paper of record are feuding over something that makes no sense

Proud of my country, proud of my President, proud of my party!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dear Criminal Defendant #4913961R: Thank you for showing up without incident yesterday for your arrest and arraignment. You appeared somewhat bewildered as to why you were there. As this is only the first of a number of criminal charges and arraignments for you that will follow from other prosecutors, I think it’s only fair that I give you the lay of the land as to what’s ahead and why this is happening.

Episode 313: Rumble with Michael Moore

The map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas - one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are persecuted by the state.

A landmark systematic review has concluded that regret rate for transgender surgeries is "remarkably low," comparing it to many other surgeries and major life decisions.