1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/s…

What a cutie! 💖🌸 Pink Robin 📷: deepak karra (Instagram) ©️ 🇦🇺 #birds #wildlife #nature #australia

I'll take 10, please. From Diana Weymar, the brilliant force behind the @tinypricks project. A quote she stitched from Philip Roth, about how we writers always get our fellow humans all wrong, hangs above my desk. One of the best purchases I've ever made.bookshop.org/p/books/crafti…

Remembering Bobby Mcllvaine on the day before September 11th. Take some time and read Jennifer Senior's Pulitzer Prize-winning piece: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Beautiful tribute to a beautiful soul by ⁦John Hendrickson⁩. And the kicker…! Even more beautiful. And goose-pimpling. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I demand an immediate YouTube vid of Kamala reaction shots.

He’s an expert in “fertilization”—so THIS explains the press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Has anyone ever won a debate by shouting “they’re eating the dogs”

This debate is crying out for commentary from Tom Servo on MST3K

“A dictator who would eat you for lunch” — The Trump Hannibal Lecter obsession, clarified

“I have concepts of a plan” — totally gonna say that to my eds when they ask how my writing is going

Re-upping. It’s been 23 years today. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

It's also available as a book if that's more your speed amazon.com/Grief-Love-Mem…

I am criminally late to this masterpiece of devastation by ⁦Mark Leibovich⁩, which shows, with characteristic humor and thoroughness, how the vertebrae of GOP politicians have collapsed into a heap of mahjong tiles. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Cc Janet Maslin, who called it in *October of 1993*. nytimes.com/1993/11/07/mag…

When a politician trades his dog whistle for a bullhorn

"A bale of hay makes the case for being alone/and what was erased and briefly forgotten retrieves its mother tongue." Gorgeous poem from my friend Howard Altmann in @theatlantic theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Dear Elon Musk: Please get rid of the unholy plague of booby girl-bots liking old and obscure reply tweets in my feed. Very truly yours, etc

Great to see the New York Times Books bestseller list this week!

I’m old enough to no longer remember when I first started saying I’m old enough to remember