I followed the Warnock campaign across the state this summer and then wrote about the bleak implications of Georgia’s historic senate race nymag.com/intelligencer/…

RIP to Mike Davis— author, people’s champ, confronter of uncomfortable realities, shredder of your faves

This Zeldin answer gets to why Dems aren’t neutralizing the crime attack by talking about gun control. The “crime”stories getting the most attention are urban “disorder” stories — sociopaths on subway, homelessness, addiction ojp.gov/sites/g/files/…

Fetterman Campaign spokesman 'for a guy who's just been in the hospital months ago, he took it to Dr. Oz pretty fucking hard tonight.'

Well, I guess we get a pretty interesting test of whether debates matter.

A source familiar with negotiations says Fetterman camp wanted journalists in the debate room to independently see how the closed captioning was working in real time. The source says Oz's team blocked the request.

RIP

Mike Davis: 1946–2022 | The Nation thenation.com/article/cultur…

This really distills it

There is no amount of empathy for and understanding about Fetterman’s health and recovery that changes the fact that this is absolutely painful to watch.

When Fetterman struggles with his speech, Dr. Oz struggles to control his smirk.

The unbearable sadness radiating from Lee Zeldin when he said losing the election is “not an option” will stick with me for a long time.

Instant classic New York Magazine cover: curbed.com/2022/10/outdoo…

It’s easy to object to guaranteed income on financial grounds. And yes, helping poor people is expensive! But allowing them to be poor is way, way more expensive — the expanded Child Tax Credit would have generated 10 times as much revenue as it cost.

I wanted to write about guaranteed income right now because there’s this weird tension: rigorous research shows it works better than anything for decreasing poverty rates. But proving that hasn’t mattered to most policymakers.

I'm very proud of this new feature for The Washington Post Magazine about the extraordinary success and uncertain future of guaranteed income programs in America. (free link!) wapo.st/3F907o8