This was an enormous public service effort from a team I’m so honored to have worked with: Samantha Schmidt Ana Vanessa Herrero Steven Rich Matthew Hay Brown and more! Read the investigation (for free!) here: wapo.st/3WTxRyw

Insightful read from Charli Yu Young Jin | 진유영 | Declaring ‘Crisis,’ South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week nytimes.com/2024/08/05/bus…

Fun 🧵on the power of reporting: Back in the summer of 2018, Minnesota AG Lori Swanson was surging toward the nomination for governor, polling well ahead of Tim Walz and another candidate. Rachel Cohen was spending the summer there and picked up on a scandal the MN press had

From Abha Bhattarai | The American wedding is shrinking wapo.st/46ztnQu

Eye-catching work from Rachel Weiner | Watchdog: Too many D.C. Metro trains are run by exhausted (or drunk) drivers washingtonpost.com/local/2024/08/…

A lovely, user-friendly read from Naz Deravian | Injera Is the Soul of Ethiopian Cuisine nytimes.com/2024/08/09/din…

Read (for free!) this great Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff piece about a man with a very specific vision that confounds a lot of people. | Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming’s capital city wapo.st/3Mcq7Bq

Read (for free!) this cucumber PSA from Emily Heil | TikTok’s ‘Cucumber Guy’ wants to help you stop slicing your fingers wapo.st/4cwG4gr

Fun read from Hannah Ziegler (she/her) | Cinemark rises to the top of a struggling theater industry washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Read Lauren Kaori Gurley on what could become a big problem as soon as tomorrow. | Looming Canadian railroad work stoppage threatens U.S. supply chains washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

From Maxine Joselow and Aaron Gregg | Ford revamps electric vehicle strategy with push into hybrids washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Please read this Michael Brice-Saddler story and support your local restaurant pillars | A D.C. Ethiopian restaurant was struggling. Then its TikTok went viral. wapo.st/3WTikgK

Your Sunday read should be this amazing Jaclyn Peiser piece (no paywall!) | Small grocers feel squeezed by suppliers, and shoppers bear the pain wapo.st/4dXldns

You can (and should!) read this great anumita kaur piece for free with this link. | Indian Americans conflicted about Kamala Harris pose campaign challenge wapo.st/4egCRDd

I went to Pennsylvania and talked to more than a dozen Indian Americans about Kamala Harris. The reaction ran the gamut: thrill, skepticism, apathy. In this battleground state, Harris’s background has been embraced by some but rings hollow for others: wapo.st/4egCRDd

If you care at all about postal service, read (for free!) this (((Jacob Bogage))) piece. | Postal Service considers rural mail slowdown after election wapo.st/3AHb0NW

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Read the latest Taylor Lorenz newsletter for an insightful and authoritative look at something that feels far away to many Americans but couldn’t be closer to home. open.substack.com/pub/taylorlore…

Check out this (free!) Steven Godfrey read from Post Sports | Don’t fear the transfer portal. Embrace it as a meritocracy. wapo.st/3TeE6L4

Very honored so many shared how tough a summer it’s been for some of the most vulnerable Americans.