My story about what went wrong inside Hawke's Bay civil defence during Cyclone Gabrielle—starting with the shocking revelation that the region had "no disaster Master Plan or flood emergency plan" even though most of its population lives on a flood plain. nzgeo.com/stories/hawkes…

A lot has been written about China's efforts to cultivate support (and UN backing) in the Pacific but it turns out Israel has been just as active. Fascinating story by Indira Stewart 1news.co.nz/2024/03/10/isr…

New Interview: I talked to the journalist Yuval Abraham about his investigations into AI-backed targeting systems being used in Gaza, how Israel’s command structure makes decisions, & the controversy surrounding him being accused of antisemitism in Berlin. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/i…

Terrific article by Sam Knight about what happened when Britain rapidly slashed public services in the name of austerity. A fleeting growth spurt followed by deep decline and dysfunction that's hard to reverse. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

"...learning to walk again would be like mastering two musical instruments and playing them at the same time." This story is absolutely unsparing and so well told: magazine.atavist.com/coming-to-amer…

Bizarre claim from John Key that Kamala Harris’s economic views are similar to Bernie Sanders & “well to the left of Joe Biden.” She’s a standard corporate-friendly Dem with major Silicon Valley backing; Biden is far more supportive of organized labor. stuff.co.nz/politics/35043…

This is an extremely cool job for the right historian: atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/Wa…

every book I read about the '60s reminds me that we've been having fundamentally the same cultural conversation for at least the past three generations some of the faces have changed. the fights have not.

For those who think that Trump wouldn't be able to pull off mass deportations, this superb piece by Rachel Morris is a necessary read into how, in his first admin, he did end up building his (invisible) border wall after all. huffpost.com/highline/artic…

Every incumbent party around the world when the post-pandemic inflation began has lost, regardless of ideology and regardless of where inflation was at the moment of the election.

How long do we think it takes for Jeff Bezos to sell the Washington Post?

Think you're safely in a blue bubble in DC? Think again. From banning abortion to changing the DCPS curriculum to firing thousands of your neighbors, the new admin may do something no president has done in years: dramatically change local DC. politi.co/3UIBgyi

Aaron is one of the best reporters in NZ precisely because of his tireless questioning.

I wrote this for Rachel Morris in 2019, not expecting it to be even more relevant in 2025. And yet, with Canada levying tariffs on the US and Denmark threatening to cut off Ozempic and shipping, here we are. (Link in the next tweet.)