Joshua Hunt

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

"But never before has a US president asserted the authority to order the cold-blooded execution of civilians outside any even arguable military conflict. And never before has a US president then turned around and boasted about his own crimes to the public at large." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Journalists at 3 Alaska Newspapers Quit Over Charlie Kirk Story The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism from a Republican state lawmaker.

Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, after pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.

Dollars and Demons Demon Slayer's success shouldn't surprise. We're all otaku now.

There are 10,000 manga artists working in Japan today. The extraordinary success of "Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle" is due to Shonen Jump's knack for spotting talent.

Its success abroad is due to a more singular factor.

We're all otaku now.

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Aug. 26: Stephen Miller says "the Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization."

Sept. 25: Miller put in charge of coordinating a federal campaign to prosecute "domestic terrorist organizations."

Truly my pleasure.

There are other great critics at The New Yorker, but I'm seldom surprised by any of the stuff they write. Your writing does surprise me, which is one of the reasons I love it.

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How Podcasts (and Plastic Surgery) Are Shaping Male Beauty Standards What comes after supplements, testosterone, and mouth exercises? We visited the Beverly Hills office of the manosphere’s favorite plastic surgeon to find out.

For the October issue of @gqmagazine.bsky.social, I went to Beverly Hills to spend time with the manosphere's favorite plastic surgeon, who helped me make sense of how podcasts dictate male beauty standards and why Joe Rogan is Goop for guys. Read it here: www.gq.com/story/how-po...

Always read Katy Waldman! The New Yorker's most reliably interesting critic.

How Podcasts (and Plastic Surgery) Are Shaping Male Beauty Standards What comes after supplements, testosterone, and mouth exercises? We visited the Beverly Hills office of the manosphere’s favorite plastic surgeon to find out.

For the October issue of @gqmagazine.bsky.social, I went to Beverly Hills to spend time with the manosphere's favorite plastic surgeon, who helped me make sense of how podcasts dictate male beauty standards and why Joe Rogan is Goop for guys. Read it here: www.gq.com/story/how-po...

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.

An @nytimes investigation finds staggering levels of insider dealing: The Trump administration confers benefits on the UAE (despite security concerns) as the UAE confers riches on the Trump family. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Pure speculation but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump sent the FBI after John Bolton because he learned this story was coming and suspects his former national security director is the one who brought it to the New York Times. Hence searching his home for classified documents.

Joe Rogan claims study shows Earth cooling – but report’s authors say he’s wrong Scientists say ‘old-school denier nonsense’ isn’t helpful as podcaster repeatedly airs false claim on his show

“It’s almost impressive how incorrect he’s able to be about an article he’s looking directly at… It’s also an incredible example of how climate misinformation sneaks into extremely popular media and then gets absorbed into the brains of millions of Americans.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This story about a failed SEAL Team 6 operation in North Korea is fucking nuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

This is a great dive: by turns technical and cultural, with a nice arc about how Americans struggled to comprehend, let alone localize, anime for Western audiences.

How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z (Gift Article) Netflix’s “Demon Slayer” is just the latest confirmation of how Japan’s once-distinctive animation style has become a global visual language.

For The New York Times Magazine I wrote about How Anime Took Over America. (Gift link). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z (Gift Article) Netflix’s “Demon Slayer” is just the latest confirmation of how Japan’s once-distinctive animation style has become a global visual language.

For The New York Times Magazine I wrote about How Anime Took Over America. (Gift link). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

What zipper giant YKK can tell us about trade “Basically, YKK is a company that is just in the business of keeping things together,” said journalist Joshua Hunt. “It's really rolled with the punches in terms of the various shapes that globalizati...

I went on @marketplace.org to talk about my @businessweektr.bsky.social feature on Japanese zipper giant YKK. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary thinks he should be entitled to a meeting with Zohran Mamdani

Mount Fear Diary - Believer Magazine In January 2023, while waiting to board a plane in Stockholm, I saw how swiftly grief can take hold of a person. In a quiet corner of Arlanda Airport, it unfolded before me like a scene from a movie: ...

“In contrast to Americans, who profess belief in principles they don’t adhere to, Japanese people often claim not to believe in the Shinto and Buddhist rituals they practice.”

—from “Mount Fear Diary,” an essay by @viajoshhunt.bsky.social

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Thank you!

Can the World’s Largest Zipper Manufacturer Survive Trump’s Tariffs? The world’s largest zipper manufacturer has spent decades mastering the global supply chain. Now it has to weather the Trump-tariff era.

Reaaaaally love this Businessweek story from @viajoshhunt.bsky.social about the world’s largest zipper-maker, YKK, which is totally fascinating in too many ways to enumerate in a post. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Can the World’s Largest Zipper Manufacturer Survive Trump’s Tariffs? The world’s largest zipper manufacturer has spent decades mastering the global supply chain. Now it has to weather the Trump-tariff era.

The world’s largest zipper manufacturer has spent decades mastering the global supply chain. Now it has to weather the Trump-tariff era.

A great deep dive in a genre I love–how supply chains explain the world—about YKK, whose products you almost certainly own even if you don't know it. By @viajoshhunt.bsky.social

Skydance Is in Early Talks to Acquire The Free Press

"Free Press" means becoming part of a company that paid off an administration attempting to stifle the free press

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The cop yelling about how it’s all your fault after the cops shot you in the head. Really sums it up.

The Great Italian Tailoring Crisis Over the past century, the master tailors of Naples have become among the most renowned in the world. Today, Italy’s legendary tradition could go extinct.

a friend just sent me this great 2023 GQ article by @viajoshhunt.bsky.social (in pdx no less) about the death of Italian bespoke tailoring. Good read. Sad - but also, a death of their own making in a lot of ways. #sewing getpocket.com/explore/item...