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Video: Opinion | The Umbrella Man On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explores the story behind the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.

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A Wake for The Washington Post’s Books Section

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I think it's gotta be Koufax in the WS or Spitz. but yeah up there.

The Wife - Jewish Review of Books "When they came to the door, she shrieked through the peephole, she drove them off, how they feared her! She could hear their heels pounding down the half-dozen flights of cracked marble."

New Cynthia Ozick story. Ozick is 97. Inspiring! jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/1...

I think I was onto something here ...

he's not!

DC Metro now has phone service at all times ... we can never allow this to happen in NYC

If I were Substack or Ghost or any individual newsletter-writer I think I'd be flipping out

The war on literacy culture continues (I'm not really joking)

there used to be no basketball the Sunday evening of the first March Madness weekend

The new thing at the bottom of Gmail cuts off some of the space where you used to be able to read your emails, but at least it also has a lot of completely blank white space

Sonny Jurgensen, one of Washington’s greatest football players, dies at 91 In a Hall of Fame career, the Redskins quarterback was known as one the NFL’s best pure passers. He later spent years as a broadcaster.

You know where I'd like to read several more articles about Sonny ... www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

you're being modest -- you were hugely influential here

I'll take that bet

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Anyway, I would guess the first writer's name I knew was Dr. Seuss. The second was Thomas Boswell. ✊

Not to pull rank, but it's objectively the case -- it was statistically a fact -- that at least during my childhood no newspaper meant more to its city than The Post did to D.C. It is impossible to think there does not remain long-term value in covering non-national news of interest to its readers.

The snow in New York is just amazingly foul at this point. It works like those black lights that reveal that all your surfaces are actually covered in disgusting bodily fluids. Practicing the willful blindness necessary to living here is getting to be impossible...

I don't think we're ever again approaching this historic confluence of polling-as-forensics and polling-as-praxis

Clark Gregg's Scene in the West Wing Season 2 Episode 16 YouTube video by Clark Gregg University

Why/how does this scene go so hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7fZ...

sincerely believe Rodgers would have won three more Super Bowls with a merely above-average coach

omg

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

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This was one of my thoughts regarding Rob Reiner: how heartbreaking that he had to live to see that

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Marty Mauser on the Lower East Side

Not on the beat anymore, but there's a real Burkean lament to be written about Notre Dame foregoing a bowl after missing the playoffs. "Notre Dame" is basically a creation of the Rose Bowl, as so much in the imagined community of college football is.

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ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social