NEW: Manhattan federal prosecutors have ditched a criminal probe into WWE boss Vince McMahon — months after a judge quietly found that there was “probable cause” that he covered up payoffs to women at his company, his atty says. We take a closer look: nypost.com/2025/02/12/us-…

X is still Twitter though

"parkland alienation" is the kind of term that get's people jazzed about local government

notes on post-scandal

Why can't New York have nice mayors? Some screenshots from my piece on the race, link below:

Yes, Bezos ended the Washington Post’s endorsement tradition & is changing the Opinion pages, but there’s more to what’s going on with him, and at one of the country’s most important news organizations. My story: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

prediction: at some point this website will be called Twitter again

some news!! Doubleday

For this week’s Comment in The New Yorker, I wrote about the Trump Administration’s threat to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese international students and the ways the alarm rings familiar, as does the cost of overreach. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

.The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast and Errol Louis (@errollouis.bsky.social) chat about the fate of the city columnist, the tendency of mayors to shut the press out more and more, the state of NYC elections, and Curtis Sliwa's non-zero chance of winning in November, and more... newyorker.com/news/the-new-y…

instead of picking lunch today I’m assembling a panel of prominent New Yorkers to tell me what they like for lunch

is it blue and black, or white and gold? nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi…

I get that this was as a tough year to make an endorsement but is this a nice thing to call people contributing their opinion?