"This is what I want every child to understand: Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. What's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world... And that message is not just for youth -- that's for everyone." (1/2)

A little light reading: research for the book I've been writing for the last 10 years. Almost done! Any titles you would add?

Thank you, Bono, for one of the most humane, balanced, humble, broadly compassionate reflections on the Israel-Hamas conflict that I've read. Israel does indeed face an existential threat, but not from starving civilians in Gaza. No ends justify these means.

If this is how federal agents treat a U.S. Senator asking a question at a press conference, how will they treat you?

Proof that policy matters: In states with looser gun laws, more children die by guns. New data analyzed over 13 years: www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...

Simple, beautiful, true, and shattering. @mcsweeneys.net

Yesterday I received 2 emails, within 6 minutes of each other, from 2 local theater companies saying that their National Endowment for the Arts grants had been terminated. So had grants for countless theaters and other arts organizations in every corner of the country.

Don't buy the Trump Administration's fake cries of "antisemitism." It's their cynical, convenient tool to terrorize universities, people born abroad, anyone practicing free speech. And it guts our chances of countering the *actual* antisemitism that now flourishes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...

H/T to the always-illuminating Substack "The New Urban Order" about urban design but more — health, economy, equality, social connection, creativity, and how we build thriving communities in a changing world. I learn something new and useful every time.
thenewurbanorder.substack.com

Welcome to the United States, land of the free — where you can be arrested and thrown in jail, without a lawyer or a hearing, just for having a different opinion.

Today it's Rümeysa Öztürk. Tomorrow it's you, your family and friends.

How #AI helps writers conquer #anxiety and other blocks — plus 10 principles for using AI wisely in #journalism. Great insights from one of my first-ever editors, Bill Brenner. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocddep...

Memo to Bezos: Journalism ≠ online shopping, streaming video or cloud storage. In the news business, you have the utmost trust or you have nothing. If you can't understand the news business, then get out. Stop killing the most storied newspaper in our nation's history. @washingtonpost.com

Three of my favorite things: science, health and trees! Cool new research shows clinical impact of neighborhood trees on health. via @nature.org

"There is a kind of shadow executive branch that’s operating alongside of and within and maybe displacing the structure set up by the Constitution and by the laws enacted by Congress."

One of the starkest interviews I've seen on the implications of Musk's infiltration. @marketplace.org

How did we get here? Not the way you think.

This brilliant book breaks open the myths we all hold about what's wrong with our political system and reveals the real solutions we need. I edited this book and had my own perceptions remade along the way. Read it and you will too.