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Parents of teens: Two book recs! 1. First Love, by Lisa A. Phillips. A look at the life cycle of first romances, from crush to break-up. Superb nonfiction. 2. I am the Cage, by Allison Sweet Grant. A look at love, trauma, & self-concept, physical and otherwise. YA at its finest.

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"When the limousine entered the hospital grounds, Mr. Hill removed his suit coat and placed its lining around the president’s head." I was just as moved by this tender detail as the main fact of the story: He saved Jackie Kennedy's life. nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/…

Some very good reporting from the Washington Post, whose news side is still killing it despite the turmoil over there. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

While watching that horrifying exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

Gen X group therapy

Amidst all the awful, there remain adorable nursery-school choo choos on the streets of New York.

I know it’s wrong, but I’m starting to feel bad for Peter Beinart. Here’s my review of his bewildering new book. Its fantasy future for Gaza is no less self-indulgently unrealistic than Donald Trump’s. blogs.timesofisrael.com/peter-beinarts…

Doing the college circuit with my 11th grader and this is pretty much the only headline I see on every campus newspaper

It's an ironic PS to the amazing Jeffrey Goldberg story that the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic is more responsible with US national security information than any of the principals of the Trump national-security team. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Yes. The call is coming from inside the house. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The remarkable thing about Jeffrey Goldberg’s Signal story (in addition to it being remarkable) is that it has managed to dominate the news for five straight days, distinguishing itself from the flooded zone that usually scatters the media in twenty different directions.

Universities should make clear that their formidable financial endowments are not there to simply be envied or admired. Part of their function is to be drawn down in the face of emergencies, and covering federal funding lapses surely counts as one. My column today in New York Times Opinion.

A heartfelt plug for Susan Dominus’ “The Family Dynamic”, and for an I’ll-die-on-this-hill reason: It’s going to be a touchstone of family psychology—and exemplar of literary nonfiction—for years to come. Intimate, wise, nuanced. Just stunning. …sandominus-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2rtMt8rMKj53Qv…

Can't stop imagining Hegseth's Signal messages to his spouse. "Kk, will pick up some cilantro on the way home. Can't wait for next Houthi bombardment with F/A-18 Hornets at zero dark thirty," etc

My friend Sarah Murray has started a Substack that's such a refreshing departure from today's bedlam. Composed of beautifully observed moments, serendipities, observations about art and the things that bind us. Her two most recent: sarahmurraywriter.substack.com/p/truthtellers… sarahmurraywriter.substack.com/p/lost-and-fou…

When your dog thinks he is a cat (viralhog)

Amazing. Not sure my aunt could have handled this sort of program, even if she’d been properly cared for. (Wrote about her two years ago: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…) But to think we’ve gone from warehousing the disabled to this…! I could cry. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025…

Just made an appt with a hyper-specialized doc whose next availability is … March 26, 2029. Receptionist said I had to make one so that I was eligible for cancellations Then he asked if I wanted 9.30 or 2 pm I was like, Surprise me. But now I’m realizing I have therapy at 9.30

Loretta Swit, damn. And this, from her obit re her role on M*A*S*H…! “It was the greatest time in my career,” she told the The Guardian. Her ambition throughout the series was to be “the best damned nurse in Korea, and that motivated everything I did, even when it came to sex.”