Unmade beds and overdue books: Photographing the rooms of kids killed in school shootingsRemembering Ted Olson, a titan of the law
Civil War Toll Much Worse in Confederate States, New Estimates Show. An analysis of newly released 19th-century census records offers more insight into the conflict’s costs.
Census Bureau Seeks Public Comment on Proposed Updates to the Census Bureau’s Race/Ethnicity Code List
Share of U.S. Coupled Households With Children Declined in 2023
U.S. Volunteerism Rebounding After COVID-19 Pandemic
100 Notable Books of 2024
The New York State Education Department has released data showing outcomes from New York’s 2024 state assessment tests, taken by students in grades 3 to 8 last spring.
Psalms 3:16: The Photo
What Kind of Crier Are You?
Follow These Do’s and Don’ts of the Apostrophe
Spring Training Countdown
A series about Western Publishing and Gold Key Comics
What Happened to the Celebrity Telethon?
Jim Abrahams, ‘Airplane!,’ ‘Naked Gun’ and ‘Hot Shots!’ Master of Mirth, Dies at 80
Chuck Woolery, Host of ‘Wheel of Fortune’ and ‘Love Connection,’ Dies at 83
Kolosocracy
Kakistocracy and Kolosocracy
What to Know About Jay Bhattacharya, djt’s Potential NIH Pick— Stanford professor is most closely associated with the Great Barrington Declaration
What to know about AG pick Pam Bondi
Caligula’s Horse and Other Controversial Appointments (RIP, the Matt Gaetz choice)
Harris lost the war of “ambient information.”
The Congressional Penis Crisis
The far right grows through “disaster fantasies”
How to Block djt From All Your Screens: A Guide
How to Delete an X (Formerly Twitter) Account Permanently
Four-Year Cruise Offered to Unhappy Voters Who Want to ‘Escape’
Babel
“The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit,” writes social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in his 2022 essay for The Atlantic. [paywall] “Trump did not destroy the tower; he merely exploited its fall. He was the first politician to master the new dynamics of the post-Babel era, in which outrage is the key to virality, stage performance crushes competence, Twitter can overpower all the newspapers in the country, and stories cannot be shared (or at least trusted) across more than a few adjacent fragments—so truth cannot achieve widespread adherence.”
Haidt explains how social media, once widely viewed as a boon for democracy, devolved to a force that has exacerbated the dysfunction of American politics—and suggests three reforms that can help democracy remain viable in the digital age.
Dance With Everybody – Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
Coverville 1511: The Tim Rice Cover Story and 1512: The Bruce Hornsby Cover Story
Naturally Stoned – The Avant-Garde, written by group member Chuck Woolery, #40 pop in 1968
Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, sometimes called the “Jupiter”.
Graucha Max– DARKSIDE
K-Chuck Radio: Someone’s Covering the Will-O-Bees
Vocalise by Rachmaninoff
Favorite Songs By Favorite Artists: Joy Division, New Order and Killdozer
Fist City– Loretta Lynn
Time After Time – Hiroshi Yoshimura
Gemini – Haley Heynderickx
Bethlehem (Glimpse) – Laraaji
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go – Wham!
Open Flair Gänsekapelle
The Wonder of Stevie is a new limited podcast series.