This is mostly a good article... except, what is this absolute horseshit?

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Here’s what Churchill wore when he visited the White House in 1942. Future generations of Americans will learn all about how FDR ended the war by berating him for being ungrateful to America and then kicking him out.

Is Bret Stephens trying to do the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social's act? Is the Pitchbot secretly Bret Stephens? Is Bret Stephens secretly self-aware?

I'm seeing people trying to figure out why Trump would impose tariffs on Canada. What's the end game?

Trump is telling us: his goal is to crash Canada's economy so that their only option is to "become the 51st state" to lift the tariffs. He's starting a war, with the explicit goal of annexation.

We found that 2-year-olds think that when they're focused, both "toy" and "wug" are mutually exclusive with "dax".

The big news: without focus, kids took "toy" and "wug" to refer to the same thing as "dax".

Without focus, kids take novel nouns to refer to familiar objects. 4/

Kids saw two new toys, and Foxy told them which to point at. We manipulated whether there was emphasis (focus) or de-emphasis (givenness) on the target nouns, which were either superordinate (“toy”) or novel (“dax”). /3

How are kids told so? We propose the answer is focus. In all languages, speakers can indicate that a meaning contrasts with some salient alternative by Focus-marking it. In English, you emphasize the contrasting bit. (focus is marked w small caps in these examples). 2/