Editor/writer/utility player at @nymag's @intelligencer. Formerly of the blogosphere. Space and time-limited gardener.
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Joined February 2010
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Gloria Steinem, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the feminist movement. Read Rebecca Traister’s obituary. thecut.com/article/gloria-st…
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The data center backlash is huge. But the boom is bigger.
Even as local bans mount, capacity keeps expanding at a dizzying pace. And that's not changing anytime soon. The buildout will continue until morale improves (or demand for compute collapses)
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Trump’s midterms plan: drop $400 million on self-promotion. The president could use his vast super-PAC stash to boost GOP candidates. But it seems he’d rather buy ads touting his dubious accomplishments. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Marjan Satrapi wrote the story of our generation. A memoir and a history of Iran’s turbulent 20th-century politics, one comic strip frame at a time.
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Bari Weiss Chooses War
@charlottetklein on the crisis at 60 Minutes
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Once again, the Way Back Machine is the only thing protecting an enormous amount of important work from oblivion — unless media orgs commit to preserving archives no matter what, and/or allow/help others to do that. The Internet should not just be ephemeral.
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I had a by turns illuminating, enraging, and hopeful discussion about the destruction of USAID with whistleblower (and high-school classmate!) Nick Enrich. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Wow.
I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/
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A US blockade, if actually enforced, would mean fewer ships going through Hormuz, not more.
I broke it down for @NYMag.
A must-watch interview cnn.com/2026/04/03/tv/video/…
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#Iraq: CPJ urges Iraqi authorities to take all necessary measures to secure the release of U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was abducted in the capital Baghdad on Tuesday.
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I was interviewed by @realaxelfoley from @NYMag on Trump’s military options in Iran.
All are ugly and unlikely to end the war.
There is no “escalate-to-deescalate” option.
Putting boots on the ground to extract Iran’s HEU is the *worst* option of all.
@defpriorities
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this is so very sad - ive subscribed to the newsletter for such a long time now with so many others, been such an avid reader, to not see it land anymore is... gutting
I have been laid off today from the @washingtonpost, along with most of the International staff and so many other wonderful colleagues. I’m heartbroken for our newsroom and especially for the peerless journalists who served the Post internationally — editors and correspondents who have been my friends and collaborators for almost 12 years. It’s been an honor to work with them.
I launched the WorldView column in January 2017 to help readers better understand the world and America’s place in it and I’m grateful for the half a million loyal subscribers who tuned into the column several times a week over the years.
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A number of scoops & new details in here, including Mace having staffers make booze runs for her after midnight earlier in her career. She also made the staff clean her Airbnbs.
But that all pales in comparison to what my sources see in public lately.
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Reminder of Trump’s idea of “helping” Iranians: visa bans, asylum shutoffs, deportations back to Iran, and a crushing economic siege since 2018 that has devastated ordinary people.
Forgive anyone for doubting the sincerity.
BREAKING: Sec. Marco Rubio freezes all foreign visa processing indefinitely from 75 countries:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
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Missing important context ! US suspension applies only to immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries and will begin January 21, 2026. Will not effect all as said in the post and non-immigrant visas such as tourist or business visas will not be effected.
Sources:-
reuters.com/world/us/us-su…
washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…
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This is complete fake news, and yet it has 1.5 million views.
The protests in Iran are drawing a huge stream of fake news on social media. Please stop sharing sensationalist posts like this merely designed for maximum engagement.
🚨Update: Rumors are coming out of Iran that the Ayatollah was killed by rioters and rebellious troops!
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There are no credible reports of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death; he addressed the public on January 9, 2026, amid ongoing protests in Iran where dozens of demonstrators have been killed in government crackdowns.
aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/9/…
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