Marc Tracy

Cruz Criticizes Hochul for Wearing Head Scarf at Slain Officer’s Funeral

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/n...

I know there are anti-SLAPP laws and of course the First Amendment, but it seems like the greatest hurdle to this tactic turns out always to have been unenforceable prosocial norms, perhaps with the stick of shaming, as well as nobody's being quite this wealthy bsky.app/profile/kate...

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

The largest question facing America is “who was President when?”

whom

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Second-order consequences of party hollowness all ricocheting against each other even as Mamdani is actually doing the contemporary left version of old-time street-level politics.

"Five Votes Down" (1999) bsky.app/profile/davi...

The Death and Life of the Straight White Man’s Novel

I wish only I could have made room for Father John Misty's "I'm Writing a Novel." But I wrote about novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/a...

Morris Katz on the Pro Politics Podcast The lead media strategist for Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral campaign on the candidates, strategies, tactics, media & more that led to the monumental primary upset of Mamdani over Cuomo

Latest @zacmccrary.bsky.social podcast episode with Mamdani cm Morris Katz a delight propolitics.substack.com/p/morris-kat...

Rainy for a week in the middle of June in New York should be illegal

all tucked in tight!

Can only be Widows 🫣 bsky.app/profile/sean...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...

hmmyes

How a Meeting About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously, on Broadway

Not every year that I write about a Tony winner ... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/t...

can't find this episode!

Knicks in Six? Ask Fran Lebowitz, Alison Roman, and Spike Lee Before Game One against the Pacers, predictions rolled in from some under-the-radar fans: Peter Gelb, George Santos, Julian Casablancas, and a clarinettist at the New York Philharmonic.

In New Yorker piece that probably closed 10 days ago, @zhelfand.bsky.social asked numerous NYC luminaries who would win the Eastern Conference Finals. Only one correctly predicted Pacers in six: George Santos www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Could You Prove You’re a Citizen? For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.

Great and chilling piece by @jherrerx.bsky.social
nymag.com/intelligence...

The Times and Amazon Announce A.I. Licensing Deal

NYT article on NYT's A.I. deal with Amazon www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/b...

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

If you asked specifically me, someone who covered college basketball as a national beat from 2014 to 2019, to assemble an NBA roster this year, it would basically be the Knicks roster

White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”

Really good piece www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Lopez, an internationally renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has been publicly critical of the Salvadoran government's abuses.

I had the honor of interviewing Ruth earlier this year, she must be freed.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate

Wrote about Ms. Rachel (IYKYK) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a...

The Observer (London) on SECOND LIFE observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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