“The Great Migration” Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist for The New York Times, has been trying to make sense of our current era of anti-migration. “If there was a zero hour, it came in 2015, when more than a million migra...

@polgreen.bsky.social wins the Hillman Prize for opinion & analysis for separating myth from reality in her columns about migration for @nytimes.com.

“The Great Migration” Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist for The New York Times, has been trying to make sense of our current era of anti-migration. “If there was a zero hour, it came in 2015, when more than a million migra...

Incredibly proud and humbled to receive the Hillman Prize for my work on global migration. www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says America First Policy Institute, which boasts close ties to president, discussed transgender policy ‘reform’ at DC event

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults.

All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just realized I never dropped it here but I wrote about what a disaster this was and how even Trump's pt barnum reality tv stunt bs isn't hitting anymore.

Brilliant piece: “America does not know how to exist in a world it does not control. Since its inception, America has assured itself it was simply too big, too far away and too richly endowed to suffer any serious consequences for its actions. But there will be no escaping the cataclysm in Iran.”

Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.

I wrote about the price of the illusion of American omnipotence that’s driving this reckless war in Iran, and so much else. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...

Also: should have been less than two hours!

Project Hail Mary Needs About 39 Percent Fewer Jokes It’s sometimes funny, occasionally annoying, definitely too long, and wavers constantly between intriguing science and absurd oversimplification.

Of course @bilgeebiri.bsky.social clocks it’s failures. www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Yes but it lacked the emotional depth of the best children’s movies IMO.

It was an unspeakably dull movie except for the scene where Sandra Huller’s character does karaoke.

My review of Project Hail Mary: what if Walter White had been a nice guy?

NEW @politico.com: Longevity influencer Peter Attia had a deeper relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than he publicly acknowledged last month.

- He asked Epstein for patient referrals
- He met a foreign-born model through Epstein, whom he interviewed for a job
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Haitian immigrant last seen in ICE custody—found dead on the street 3 days later.

Agents drove her 1 hour away from home for processing—then released without notifying her family.

Her body was found near a bus stop.

Tweet from Daniel Pipes: "The uprising in Iran in early January suggested an even greater insurgency would then follow on the U.S.-Israeli campaign to erode regime power. Yet, the populace now appears cowed into near-silence. This ranks as the most surprising and disappointing development of the past week. Without a new uprising, the regime will likely remain in power, less powerful but more awful than ever. (The picture below is from Jan. 10 in Tehran.)"

Amazing how quickly "We're fighting this war for freedom of the Iranian people" becomes "The Iranian people are at fault for not rising up."

My latest on the cover of Sunday @nytopinion.nytimes.com: the fantasy and terrifying reality of Trump’s reckless war in Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.

Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.

Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.

NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Investors are not ready for a true shock The consensus view of the impact of the Iran war on equities and bonds may well prove too sanguine

Investors are not ready for a true shock ft.trib.al/tWMyNkv | opinion

Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

I wrote about Trump's fantasy of omnipotence and invulnerability crashing against the material reality of a interdependent world. This insane, heedless war will ruin us all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

There's nothing wrong with polling these questions, I guess, but I do wonder how much it really matters. Americans think a lot of things! For example, large majorities favor restrictions on guns and yet the GOP holds a governing trifecta.

1000 percent agree. I would put it this way: Gender affirming surgery is surprisingly common for teenagers, including procedures to alter the chest, nose, and other facial features. These procedures are performed extremely rarely on transgender youth.

Opinion | Born This Way? Born Which Way? (Published 2023)

Anyway, I wrote about all of this a couple years ago. It is hard to believe things are so much worse now. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/o...

It can also be true that a minuscule number of trans adolescents are among the hundreds of thousands of minors who get gender affirming cosmetic surgery in America, and a lot of people feel weird about that.

Multiple things can be true. Many people are uncomfortable with transgender visibility in America, worry about edge cases like sports and medical care for adolescents and some (mostly men it seems?) worry about bathrooms. And voters can still trust Democrats more on trans issues.

very much agree.

Totally agree though this was at least presented as what it was. I’m the last person who would defend this piece, believe me!

Roald Dahl's Letter About Losing his Daughter in 1962 " there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. "

Anyway here's a good nonfiction piece about the horror of measles fs.blog/roald-dahl-l...

I don’t remember the details of that piece and I am not a fan of his work on this subject to say the least, but this one seems even more problematic because it was entirely hypothetical, not a composite or distortion.

I am an opinion columnist and I spent most of my career as a reporter. Most of my colleagues have either deep reporting experience or deep expertise in a specific subject matter (or both!) and we are rigorously fact checked.