Benjy Sarlin

Opinion | The Education Department is paying us millions not to work Education staff are eager to serve the public. The Trump administration’s layoffs put us in a legal limbo that helps nobody.

Seems less than ideal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The Republican plan to bury Medicaid recipients in paperwork Proposed work requirements for aid won’t create jobs, but they will kick the working poor off health care.

A good column on how the GOP uses work requirements as a ploy to deny Medicaid benefits to Americans who are eligible.

Arkansas enacted a similar policy. “Although the policy dramatically reduced the share of adults with health insurance coverage, it did nothing to boost employment.”

Opinion | Is Trump breaking up his winning coalition? The president made massive gains with naturalized citizens in 2024.

New research from @splitticketvoter.bsky.social suggests Trump made massive gains with naturalized citizens in 2024. Scaring legal immigrants and blowing up the economy seems like a formula for undoing them. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Some pretty dangerous poll findings for Trump lately, especially on the economy www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Are the tariffs affecting you as a consumer, business owner, coffee drinker, etc? Reach out to the Post's letters page thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/tariff...

Don’t assume populism and tariffs are inherently joined.

The original populists and progressives were anti-tariff for decades. It’s a big part of how we have that income tax Musk and Trump hate.

It could happen again, @tonyannett.bsky.social writes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Sure seems like Elon was toxic in that Wisconsin race. New state polling here from Blueprint, see their op-ed. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

See, you're aggrieved right now!

The ghibli thing was terrible and everywhere but it appears to have passed quickly, like omicron

I dunno, I am at least somewhat skeptical that “MAGA talking points but in the tone of an aggrieved 2014 Vox writer” is the future of conservative politics

Opinion | Democrats no longer have the luxury of losing Texas A changing electoral map means Texas is a must-win state for the Democratic Party.

What's easier for Democrats: Getting New York City, California and Philadelphia to build housing and stop bleeding population? Or winning Texas? Cuz thems the choices. -- www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Democrats no longer have the luxury of losing Texas A changing electoral map means Texas is a must-win state for the Democratic Party.

Democrats no longer have the luxury of losing Texas, writes Luke Warford www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The Waltz defense is basically that it has to be some elaborate, currently unarticulated, conspiracy against him because can you imagine someone as competent and smart and cool as Waltz doing something so stupid? Most people don’t even know who this guy is, let alone assume he’s infallible.

Opinion | Republicans should welcome Democrats’ turn to ‘abundance’ An emerging coalition of pro-growth conservatives and supply-side liberals could tackle major problems together.

The conservative case for embracing “Abundance” via @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | How covid tore Generation Z in two Even small age differences meant a very different pandemic experience. It’s affecting how Zoomers see the world today.

Rachel Janfanza on how the pandemic split Gen Z into two different generations, with opposing politics. (A good morning for Post oped.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

China's BYD unveils faster-charging EV platform, aims to build over 4,000 charging piles China's BYD on Monday launched an upgraded platform for electric vehicles with 1,000-volt architecture that it said could charge EVs as fast as pumping gas.

Accepting the premise that Musk is a unique business and engineering genius who singlehandedly turned Tesla into the dominant EV company — they've been getting absolutely routed since he started his big X/AI/DOGE kick and I don't know how they recover www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Ah yes, making me nostalgic for the bad economy law school surge of my youth

Trump’s Attacks Give Zelensky a Popularity Boost in Ukraine The Ukrainian leader’s approval rating is rising, and critics have backed off after he was humiliated and criticized by President Trump, who has also demanded new elections in Ukraine.

See also www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/w...

Opinion | How the Donald Trump of Canada became a resistance icon Ontario’s Doug Ford is channeling a national backlash to the White House.

The thing about antagonizing other countries for your nationalist base is that they have their own nationalists with their own base
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Opinion | How Trump is reshaping reality by hiding data Sweeping statistical purges are part of a broader attempt to reinvent “truth.”

How Trump is reshaping reality by disappearing public data
W/ my fabulous colleague @ashendruk.com
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Can’t believe it was was just five years ago today that the Knicks were bad

Stock traders are just doing a historical re-enactment of March 2020 for the covid anniversary

They were working to ensure invasive pests didn't destroy U.S. crops — until they were abruptly fired USDA experts have been swept up in the Trump administration’s frenzied and turbulent efforts to drastically shrink the federal workforce.

“The insects don’t care what the current political environment is,” he said. “They’re just going to keep coming.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Gene Hackman dying seems a good time to tell you that Sam Raimi made a western called The Quick and the Dead, absolutely every cool actor is in it, Hackman destroys in every scene as the Big Bad, and for weird reasons 1995 America decided it was bad and erased it from memory

Loved every chance I got to work with him, the epitome of professionalism and class in one of the most scrutinized jobs in media

Please do!

Excited to announce I'll be joining the @washingtonpost.com Opinion Desk as an assignment editor next month! Looking forward to building a better discourse as part of this storied team of editors, columnists, and producers.

PSA: This is the best packing snow I’ve ever seen

This entire last year feels like a super long Key and Peele sketch about a diss track that gets out of hand

I completely believe Kuzma will be great in Milwaukee. That guy has been stuck in the “Good veteran on bad team who will be traded for assets” role for four years, that’s got to be like an NBA record, I don’t know how much any man can take of that before they succumb to physical despair.