Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

"We're talking about Tech, by the way; saw the game this past Friday - go 'Hoos!" - Winsome Earle-Sears bluevirginia.us/2025/09/very...

This is a great personal story, but, like most stories about the horrible consequences of exclusively Republican theocratic policies, it vastly underplays the responsibility of Republicans and the Christo-facist movements that got us here.

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

I didn’t really intend to publish back to back personal essays, but I wanted to write about what it’s like to want children while realizing I might never be totally free of the Christian right or its gender bullshit nymag.com/intelligence...

Rowling is a shitbag but also! HP is NOT GOOD. This isn’t one of those mildly nuanced “oh but Polanski is a genius” situations — HP is derivative, mediocre, critically insubstantial, even with a generous poptimism handicap. Its single outstanding quality as a cultural artifact is its ubiquity.

I wrote about what it was like growing up up Dobson. nymag.com/intelligence...

I wrote about what it was like growing up up Dobson. nymag.com/intelligence...

I wrote about what it was like growing up up Dobson. nymag.com/intelligence...