Laurels and Darts

Labor Day weekend dramatics. Plus: “Advising” the opposition; fear and trembling among Texas doctors.

Keeping up with ICE. Plus: Crime in DC? Preschool in Oregon? And who tossed that sandwich?

Our White House press corps doesn’t meet the moment. Plus: A teenage math prodigy, a deep dive into LA’s housing crisis, and a one-time-only print edition for Texas flood victims.

On showing receipts. Plus: Build the wall? Not if you need a filling. And an obit goes awry.

A paucity of indictments in LA. Plus: New Jerseyans want to vanish, Medicaid fraud (the corporate kind), and a plaudit for Rupert.

Nixing the nameless government spokesman. Plus: Poignant coverage from Texas; inside a notorious Syrian prison; and waffles, glorious waffles.

Politico’s cringey video. Plus: One editor’s heroics in Texas Hill Country; investigating toxic waste in Louisiana; and NYT’s sourcing efforts go haywire with its Mamdani story.

Steve Vladeck shines a light. Plus: Indigenous communities fight climate change, and Fox conducts a survey on Trump—three guesses what it shows.

NYT opinion editor says she was “imprecise” with her earlier ban. Plus: Loomer and Grok vs. the truth, DOGE’s real-world fallout, and the ill of the chase.

Plus: Busy as beavers in the Beaver State, true crime beyond murder, and Terry Moran’s world-class haterade.

“I don’t even know what the hell that is,” Trump said. (He likely knows now.) Plus: Corrections brutality in Buffalo, and tossing softballs to Elon.

Plus: Power problems in the Pacific Northwest, Pentagon reporters band together, and a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in DC.

But the bot made one big mistake.

Human vs. bot.

Plus: Hurricane-scammin’, résumé-jammin’, and an unfortunate self-insertion.