Stoked to announce that Wright Thompson and I are teaching a class at @mujschool this spring, an intensive magazine writing workshop for a select number of students. We’ll study and/or speak to some of the greatest-evers, from Tom Junod to Michael Lewis and JR Moehringer to Gay Talese and Taffy Brodesser-Akner and a lot more — as much ego as a Zoom can handle. Applications are due Friday to John Anderson and Mark Horvit.

Headlines you just don’t see every day:

Freedom of the press is not optional. We’ll continue to follow the facts wherever they take us and to defend the right to do so every day. @CNN

Scoop: Ken Paxton privately complained John Cornyn “wants me to lose,” as their years-long feud boils over in a high-stakes Senate race The latest leak from a Paxton fundraiser last month: cnn.com/2026/10/09/politics/… #TXSEN

NEW: ICE leadership told agents nationwide this week to increase arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests. They were also instructed to try to reach 19,000 arrests per week. cnn.com/2026/10/08/politics/…

This isn’t a direct quote from Trump, and I very much don’t think it’s a correct paraphrase. Trump has repeatedly argued that the consequences of the war, like higher gas prices, are a small price to pay compared to what an unchecked Iran could allegedly do. Last night, in especially rambling and incomplete fashion, he 1) claimed high prices are temporary and suggested they’re “artificial”; 2) contrasted that to the damage of Iran supposedly taking out a city; 3) and then, in especially confusing style, repeated his old point that “this,” as in the consequences of the war, is a small price to pay to avoid something like a a city being wiped out. It’s Trump’s fault you kinda have to be steeped in TrumpRallySpeak to know what he was saying last night, and of course you can say it’s inappropriate regardless for the president to casually float the possibility of a city being wiped out, but the context exists and is important.

It was a very exciting weekend in Buffalo, my hometown, including leading a cheer for my fellow @buffalobills fans at the new and very beautiful Highmark Stadium in nearby Orchard Park.

This Sunday, October 4, at 8 pm Eastern time on CNN the hospital in Hettinger, North Dakota, and her immigrant workers will be covered. I know some of these people and am eager to see this

SCOOP: ICE officers will only be allowed to conduct vehicle stops if they have completed related training courses and must ensure that vehicles used for stops are equipped with lights and sirens, according to new internal guidance reviewed by CNN. cnn.com/2026/10/01/politics/…