Gallery 610. Met Project Day 3. September 30. 4:16-5:00

McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.

Reflections on slow looking, close reading, and the anxieties of online publication after some reader comments

The Saudis closed the East-West pipeline after it sustained damage in a drone attack launched from Iraq.

"We need to feel our culture, and history, and current system is better than all the others, while acting as though we don’t believe those things." The National Security Strategy of the United States ...

Room 607. Met Project Day 3. September 30 2024, 2:40-2:55

Gallery 606. 12:05-2:40

Gallery 605. Met Project Day 3. September 30. 2024. 10:40-3:26

YouTube video by Michelle Franklin | Legends and Lectures

Room 604 (and 605, briefly). Met Project. Day Two. September 26, 2024. 3:07-3:30

Room 602. Met Project. Day Two. September 24, 2024. 12:50-2:49

Vestibule. Met Project. Day Two. September 26, 2024. 11:26

Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has been detained by Israel for a year and a half without trial and says his jailers are trying to kill him. His case has made international headlines, yet it is being ignored...

Podcast Episode · Melting Into Air: A History of the Victorian Empire · July 12 · 1h

Gallery 601. Met Project. Day One. September 24, 2024. 12:30-2:30

The goal of this Substack is to make publicly available a set of notes I wrote while walking systematically through every one of the 45 rooms that comprise the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Pa...

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said Wednesday that research has shrunk by 10 percent in the year following cuts by the Trump administration. “Counting federal and nonfederal source…

Steven Cheung blasted a former Obama diplomat who flagged the absence of any China expert on trip to Beijing.

Early results Friday suggested sweeping losses that will heap pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He said he had no plans to step aside despite the “very tough” picture.

“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”

The president wouldn’t disclose his latest chat with the Russian leader. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it happens with some regularity.

Whether in small 'liberty cities' or big metros like Dallas, one attorney’s limited government push is reshaping local control in Texas — and sparking legal fights.

Incoming PM Péter Magyar accuses Fidesz-linked figures of trying to shield their wealth from accountability

Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.

NBC News dropped a bombshell report on Saturday: that damage to U.S. military bases was much more extensive than Trump's officials have publicly disclosed.