Laurels and Darts

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.

Primate prevarication in the Deep South. Plus, the immigration crackdown in Chicago, and the wonderfully wonky world of Bolts.

Some puffery at CBS News. Plus: Radley Balko reads the receipts, New York magazine thieving from the New York Times, and a “high-ranking dumb” drug bust.

The student stars of Indiana. Plus, Idaho women’s prisons, protests below the fold, and a whiz kid loses his cool.