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After the Washington Post spiked its endorsement of Kamala Harris, the columnist Ruth Marcus made the decision to stay at the paper, where she’d worked for 40 years. Then Jeff Bezos announced that a change was coming to the paper’s Opinion section.
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March 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
After the Washington Post spiked its endorsement of Kamala Harris, the columnist Ruth Marcus made the decision to stay at the paper, where she’d worked for 40 years. Then Jeff Bezos announced that a change was coming to the paper’s Opinion section.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
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March 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
"Didion writes of blue nights, the long twilights in the days around the summer solstice, as a metaphor for the passage of time, for aging, illness and death (“the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness”) and the loss and sadness they herald." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/t...
Why Are We So Obsessed With the Color Blue?
The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Didion writes of blue nights, the long twilights in the days around the summer solstice, as a metaphor for the passage of time, for aging, illness and death (“the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness”) and the loss and sadness they herald." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/t...
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This must hit so hard if you’re stupid
February 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This must hit so hard if you’re stupid
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"If American constitutional democracy is a game, then they’ve flipped the board with the aim of using the same pieces to play a new one with their own boutique rules." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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February 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"If American constitutional democracy is a game, then they’ve flipped the board with the aim of using the same pieces to play a new one with their own boutique rules." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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