Philip Gourevitch

Robert L. Stirm, Returning P.O.W. in Pulitzer-Winning Photo, Dies at 92

“The image immortalized a Vietnam veteran’s joyous homecoming to his beaming family but hid the painful truth about a marriage that was about to end.”

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yes Mark Gevisser is excellent

Nvidia Profits Soar, Soothing Investor Jitters Over AI Boom The chip maker reported record revenue, beating Wall Street estimates and increasing current-quarter guidance.

Please kick me mercilessly under the table if I speak such nonsense when I report earning $57 billion in three months.

“We’ve entered the virtuous cycle of AI,” said Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang.

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Rian Malan’s “My Traitor’s Heart” is very high up there in history and reportage. First half dozen pages are as propulsive as they come and it doesn’t really slack off from there even as it gets wider and deeper. The book should be far better known here.

Josh really doesn't get enough credit as a digital journalism pioneer — and as an entrepreneur who built something meaningful and lasting.

a feuilleton revival is long overdue

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

Pretty accurate. The disintegration of MAGA had to start with one of their own to be effective…

RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’

RFK Jr.: ‘The President Having Sex With Children Is Fine From A Purely Nutritional Standpoint’

When this happened in Trump’s first administration, Senate Republicans like Lindsay Graham rebuked him and threatened to hold up legislation. Senator Marco Rubio, now the nation’s top diplomat, called for severing US ties with Saudi Arabia over human rights. Press should ask them about it too.

House votes to force DOJ release of Jeffrey Epstein files While the vote marks an important step in backers' crusade to get the files released, significant barriers remain.

Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...

Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

Have to admit that no other public figure has ever before dare to say this.

When you’re their star they let you do it

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Trump Gives Himself an Enormous Out on the Epstein Files Epstein Politics Shift on the Hill President Trump’s absurd effort to avoid...

Trump and the White House seem to be leaving themselves a pretty big out. In his social media post declaring he didn’t care if House Oversight got the Epstein files, Trump caveated it by saying they “can have whatever they are legally entitled to.” Well...
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.

Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

Wow! Epstein survivor Haley Robson just offered to hold Marjorie Taylor Greene’s hand if she decides to read the names on the floor.

And a powerful message to Donald Trump: “I am traumatized. I am not stupid.”
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Excellent book. Highly recommend.

“Those who cling to thinking, I should - nay, I just - write this piece and make it public”, said the Buddha, “those ones are the worst.”

yes but he only exercises power without congressional approval when doing so is illegal

it’s like his own personal Vietnam

Larry Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments

nowhere near “ashamed” enough

“Dr. Summers added that he would continue teaching as an economics professor at Harvard”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

I’m not a total sex criminal and you can trust me on that because I also say that the cost of living that keeps going up is totally going down.

E.P.A. Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands

this is catastrophic — another epochal crime against creation by the vandals of Trump’s GOP:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/c...