Opinion | Inside a Democratic Socialist Convention Galvanized by Mamdani’s Big Win

A dispatch from the Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention in New Orleans, where I learned more about the people and movement gaining sway in the Democratic Party

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

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What the Jewish Left Is Building for Itself

"People who feel committed to Jewish life have no choice but to create new Jewish communities.” From the great @emmagoldberg.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness

A Little-Noted Element Propelled Mamdani’s Rise: Gen Z Loneliness www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... @emmagoldberg.bsky.social

‘Medicaid Cut Me Off’: A Rural Health Center Faces New Pressures

When states fail to expand #Medicaid, access to comprehensive primary care hangs in the balance.

More on Mississippi's ongoing crisis from @emmagoldberg.bsky.social in @nytimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/h...

Is Self-Help Too Self-Centered? | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Emma Goldberg talks about her recent exploration of whether today's self-help books go too far in encouraging paying less attention to other people.

ICYMI, @emmagoldberg.bsky.social on self-help & self-centric culture:

www.wnyc.org/story/is-sel...

TONIGHT: House passes Trump’s tax bill-jobs report shows U.S. job growth exceeded June expectations-historian Jon Meacham weighs in on where U.S. is heading on 249th birthday
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The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies At a convention of the pronatalist movement, the relatively few women in attendance agreed: Motherhood needs a rebrand.

loved this wild / unexpected dispatch from a Natal Conference from @emmagoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/s...

The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies At a convention of the pronatalist movement, the relatively few women in attendance agreed: Motherhood needs a rebrand.

I went to the Natal Conference in Austin and wrote about the women drawn to the pronatalism movement — and those who are criticizing it for the far-right voices it's bringing into the tent www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/s...

How Companies Like J&J, Live Nation and Uber Are Retreating From DEI So far this year the number of companies in the S&P 500 that used the phrase “diversity, equity and inclusion” in annual reports has fallen by nearly 60 percent from 2024, a New York Times analysis sh...

Even before Trump charged federal agencies with investigating "illegal DEI," companies began their retreat— dropping diversity promises, abandoning words like "equity." My @nytimes.com teammates and I dug through 25,000 documents to show this in real time www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Top-notch analysis and reporting.

More on the blending of Christianity, tech, and power from @emmagoldberg.bsky.social

Silicon Valley is Embracing Christianity (With the Help of Peter Thiel) (Gift Article) When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.

I wrote about a growing community of Christians in Silicon Valley — including Peter Thiel and his favorite commandments, Elon Musk's turn from atheism, and the Bay Area's favorite theologian, Rene Girard. Here's a gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

After Trump’s DEI Order, Companies Navigate a Legal Minefield Companies navigate a legal minefield as President Trump wages war on diversity programs, but they still have to guard against complaints of bias.

Anti-discrimination laws that used to hold companies accountable for bias against minority workers are now being used to fight against DEI. I wrote about this "brave new world" of employment law, where companies are asking: What's "illegal DEI"? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/b...

A Sense of Belonging, Shaped by Fire

"Something about collective trauma has a way of focusing the mind on where you are." Beautiful @conordougherty.bsky.social reflection www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

I’ve driven from Hollywood to Eagle Rock to Mar Vista to Brentwood to Atwater to Runyon to Studio City for emergency stuff and reporting and just got home for the day. All I can say is love this city.

‘It Was Biblical’: Ash and Flame Upend Life in Southern California Wind-whipped wildfire blew through communities of every socioeconomic status and stripe, merging, psychically if not physically, into a kind of mega-catastrophe.

"It has long been a local article of faith: Southern California disasters are rarely as sweeping as they seem." via
@shawnhubler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

Opinion | Burned Out? Start Here. The self-help author Oliver Burkeman argues that the path to productivity — and peace of mind — begins with accepting your limitations.

I first started reading Oliver Burkeman while working on an essay about Sabbath, work and the pandemic, and I loved this conversation with him and Ezra Klein so much www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

12 Predictions for Life in 2025 What will we wear, eat, buy, believe, desire?

The NYT Styles desk asked 12 writers for predictions of life in 2025. I wrote about why this year could be a turning point in the war for attention — from a possible TikTok ban and phone-free schools, to workshops teaching the art of reclaiming attention. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s...

The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All a book by Mary Childs From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King,...

IT'S BOND KING PAPERBACK DAY! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

....maybe we should do a little giveaway?
send me proof of purchase (or library-checkout!!) and ill send you one of the following:
a) a pimco paraphernalia
b) a signed paperback copy
c) a drawing of yourself or person of ur choice

the styles desk rounded up 12 predictions for life in 2025. I wrote about a turning point in the wars to reclaim our attention www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/s...

cosigning this @jamellebouie.net book recommendation -- this is a staggeringly well reported and written biography

Optimize Your Giving CrowdSource 12.16.2024

really appreciate this look at the debates over effective altruism, the reopening of Notre Dame and more in Wisdom of Crowds wisdomofcrowds.live/p/optimize-y...

The Secret History of Risotto The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent.

don't even like risotto but i could read 10,000 more words of this www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality : Planet Money Why do some nations fail and others succeed?In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would revolutionize how economists think about global inequality. Their work centered on a powerful — and almost radically obvious — idea: that the economic fate of nations is determined by how societies organize themselves. In other words, the economists shined a spotlight on the power of institutions, the systems, rules, and structures that shape society.We spoke with two of the Nobel-winning economists about their research on why some countries are rich and others are poor, why it took so long for economics to recognize the power of institutions, and what the heck those even are.This episode was hosted by Jeff Guo and Greg Rosalsky. It was produced by Willa Rubin with help from James Sneed. It was edited by Martina Castro and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Engineering by Gilly Moon with help from James Willetts. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

two out of the three Nobel-Prize-winning economists talked to @elliswonk.bsky.social + Jeff Guo @planetmoney.bsky.social about why some countries are rich and others are poor, why it took so long for economics to recognize the power of institutions, and also wtf an "institution" is anyway:

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.”

A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

the absolute bagels news reminds me of the day Barney Greengrass was abruptly closed by the health department the day after Yom Kippur and the upper west side lost its mind www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/n...

Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans The staff writer Jonathan Blitzer on the rhetoric and the reality of deporting “millions”—and why immigrants in the country legally are likely to be targeted.

A gutting detail from this @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social interview:

After the Postville Raid, a massive ICE operation in 2008, a study found Latino babies born nearby were markedly underweight. Their mothers were so gripped by fear that it caused prenatal harm. "The consequences of this are bodily."

Just an incredible set of words

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...