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On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel Is the President flip-flopping on Israel's war, or just muddling through?

Far from ending the war in Gaza, Trump's blank check to Bibi has enabled it.

my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Politicians fail children again and again.

@dmitrymedvedev.bsky.social managed to infuriate Trump: "Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let's keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he's still President, to watch
his words. He's entering very dangerous territory!"

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Wicker tells Semafor he’ll be talking to ranking member Reed about the Atlantic story and next steps

“We’re definitely concerned”

“The chair and ranking member are going to discuss the action to take. That’s part of our oversight”

Nita Lowey, Tenacious New York Representative, Dies at 87 A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

RIP Nita Lowey, the longtime New York congresswoman who became the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

It Took Trump Only Twenty-four Days to Sell Out Ukraine Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.

Has Vladimir Putin ever had a better week in Washington?

My new column on Trump’s selling out of Ukraine: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Since Trump’s ‘Emergency,’ What Is Actually Happening on the Border? Bored troops are standing watch, shelters have emptied from McAllen, Texas, to Tucson, Ariz., and border patrols speed through miles of frontier, finding no one in sight.

Border crossings had already fallen dramatically under Biden and much further now under Trump. Bored troops stand watch, shelters have emptied and border patrols speed through the frontier, finding no one. Jack Healy @jdavidgoodman.bsky.social Edgar Sandoval www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

All the fresh words… Cormac McCarthy’s prose makes me want to read and read, ride and remember. Unfortunately we have to read news. When the air gets stuffy, too cluttered with lies and hate, I try to read clean and hard as pebbles prose. Thank you #cormacmccarthy for your All The Pretty Horses 🐎

Georgian 🇬🇪#LGBTQ community look to an uncertain future. My reportage from #Tbilisi for @TheBlackSeaEU about the new legal bans and violence: theblacksea.eu/stories/the-en…

Hello the #BlueSky community! Hope it’s warm and peaceful where you are, hope people value every moment of freedom where you are. This is my first day here, hope to learn interesting things from you, meet thoughtful people and find good story ideas.