Laurels and Darts

Plus, why we should let Trump go to voicemail, and great work from Charleston’s Post and Courier.

Devastation in Iran. Plus: The death of a refugee in Buffalo, and the military’s “simmering white Christian nationalism.”

A profile of El Mencho. Plus: An incredibly long State of the Union that no one will remember; history repeats, nastily, in Georgia.

Ann Curry reports from Sudan. Plus: Second-person scenarios, and AI mayhem.

A tool for parsing the Epstein dumps. Plus: Papers clash in the Deep South; a decades-long Florida waitlist.

Plus: Silence from the White House press corps, a weird AI gimmick, and a brilliant zine.

Courageous reporting from Minnesota and Iran. Plus: tone-deafness at the Tribune; spit hoods in Seattle.

Plus: silent Bezos, post-fire future, and an investigation in Texas.

Vital footage in Minneapolis. Plus, shopworn “new ideas” at CBS; mixed messages for American Samoans; and they shoot horses (up), don’t they?

A viral video, a prerecorded firing, a retouched photo—and a new columnist.

The year’s most worthy laurels and most dreadful darts, from your departing columnist.

A devastating photograph. Plus: Trump’s war of words with women journalists; sticking with the story in South Texas.

The big dogs go hunting. Plus, Santos suckers another; Keystone State gratification.

On the ground in Oklahoma at the eleventh hour. Plus: White House tries to talk turkey; gets gobbled up by ABC News. And RFK Jr., purple-prose muse.

“It’s grim.” Plus, attempting to tar Talarico; another culture warrior goes a-griftin’; and tracking the victims of Trump’s bombing campaign.