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About a decade ago, crashes involving 18-wheelers began to spike on a 14-mile stretch of Interstate 10 in New Orleans.

Excited to be in conversation with Molly about her incredible book

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I'm very excited to read @rozinaali.bsky.social's forthcoming book on four families' experiences of Islamophobia in America. #AmRel

Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran

“No other recent American president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes, legal experts, historians and former U.S. officials say.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...

A Teen Fell to His Death in London. Behind the Tragedy Lay So Much More. London Falling finds, in the death of one teenager, both a private loss and a parable of the decay of a once-great city.

The first reviews of LONDON FALLING are posting and as a devoted longtime reader of @lauramille.bsky.social at Slate, I'm so grateful for this one.

At Synagogues, Tensions Are Boiling Over Disagreements about Gaza and Zionism have divided congregations.

Half a century ago, Norman Podhoretz celebrated the fact that virtually all American Jews had been “converted to Zionism.” Fifty years later, the consensus he hailed has shattered, as I report in this week’s issue of The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thrilled to announce my book, SEASONS OF FURY, will be out on August 25. Based on years of reporting and archival research, this book is a narrative history that follows four families to trace the rise of Islamophobia in the US.

You can pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672414...

In Secret Deportation Deal, U.S. Leveraged Favors and Funds

Remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against protesters there. $30 million in funds.

Inside how Cameroon and the U.S. struck a deal over third-country migrants.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

Say gay: feminist magazine reclaims Charlie Kirk-style campus tours after Florida DEI cuts Florida restricted teaching around sex, gender and race. Lux is now giving students a forum for these issues

after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students.

under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest.

the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com

News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023

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Big news. One man, Suhail Najim Abdullah Al Shimari, was detained from 2003-2008, and held in Abu Ghraib for 2 months. CACI "tortured him in various ways: he was subjected to electric shocks, deprived of food, threatened by dogs, and kept naked."

BREAKING: Pentagon Report: U.S. Attcked Elementary School in Iran

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.

theintercept.com/2026/03/11/i...

In the first week of war, the US struck 3,000 Iranian targets (now up to 5,500) with an unknown number of munitions and Israel struck 3,400 targets with 7,500 munitions.

This allows an interesting comparison to Gaza, where Israel struck 3,600 targets with 6,000 munitions in the first 6 days…

Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers Andy Ogles said Muslims do not belong in the US and Randy Fine made a comparison of Muslims to dogs

It's not just that he refused to condemn Ogles and Fine; he endorsed the substance of their vile messages, taking issue only with their "tone," and he introduced a new line of bigotry-fueled conspiracy theory about Muslims wanting to impose sharia law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW @nytimes.com ANALYSIS:

In 2008 (the last election before Citizens United), billionaires accounted for 0.3% of federal election spending.

In 2024, 300 billionaires & their immediate families accounted for 19% of all spending, either directly or through PACs, totaling $3B+.

While all eyes are on Iran, Jewish terrorism is rising in the West Bank | Editorial Israel, by Means of the Jewish Marauders, Is Advancing the Gradual Expulsion of Palestinians From Their Lands, and in Doing So, It May Be Responsible for Committing War Crimes and Crimes Against Human...

A hidden benefit of the Iran war for Netanyahu and his supporters: averting attention from the crimes of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

Acc to witnesses in southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces have killed dozens, Israeli soldiers disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Molly Crabapple Book Preorder Giveaway - Penguin Random House Enter for a chance to win! Preorder Here Where We Live Is Our Country and submit proof of purchase, or answer our email prompt, to be automatically entered into our tiered preorder giveaway. Prizes ra...

Today is the start of Russia’s February Revolution, which swept a hemophiliac autocracy from its throne. In honor of the day, me and One World are doing a preorder giveaway for my book! This is open to any US resident preordering my book from anywhere sites.prh.com/molly-crabap...

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Gutting international desks is troubling for another reason : deeply reported coverage helps shape foreign policy, and affects thousands of lives abroad.

Washington Post journalists have done tremendous work documenting the horrors of US wars, and shifting national convo.

The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution. Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene. “That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib.

He thought he was going to die.

Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors.

And a mob of agents killed him.

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

"The ruling, if it were to stand, would have major implications for anyone detained as the Trump administration sought to deport them. It would remove the most effective means that immigration lawyers have for freeing their clients from detention while they are in immigration proceedings."