Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 11/08/2026Big difference, in terms of mental imagery, between a truck (WaPo) and a cart (NYT). 290
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 03/07/2026Ian Bogost last month on 747s, and the Qatari gift of Air Force One. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... 010
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 02/07/2026U.S. ambassador to NATO: It’s good that the world is finally discovering that you can eat fast food in your car while taking a phone call. 151
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 30/06/2026Had to whine in order to publish that first sentence on the left, 10 years ago. The compromise was turning “when” to “if.” 2112
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 30/06/2026Phil Kennicott on the “Great American State Fair” and its thin crowds and “Northrop Grumman Sky Tunnel theater.” wapo.st/4uZJodn 021
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 27/05/2026This NYT interview with Nicolas Cage is fascinating and funny. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 031
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 14/04/2026These NY Times oral histories—of what the Trump administration is doing to federal agencies—are a public service. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 6522199
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 13/04/2026The person leading what's left of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 251
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 07/04/2026From the summer of 2016, when the American people were debating whether to invest the ultimate power in Donald Trump or in Hillary Clinton. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/st... 011
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 13/03/2026“The Pentagon recruiting effort dangles both money and access, offering Wall Street recruits the opportunity to manage ‘more capital than most investors deploy in their entire careers.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u... Meanwhile: 031
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 02/03/2026“We sell hundreds of millions of real estate every day, and it’s not taxed.” 080
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 08/02/2026I have you beat. Some dog (or some person??) had a backward explosion on one of my icebergs, and it froze, and now presents as some sort of mystical shroud iconography — until you get closer, of course, and then it becomes all too clear what’s been preserved. 110
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 07/02/2026Fundraiser for The Post’s brave international staff: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... 095
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 05/02/2026At a rally outside The Post today, two signs referencing Post publishers. On left: Eugene Meyer, publisher from 1933 to 1946, and one of his “seven principles for the conduct of a newspaper.” On right: perhaps a dig at current publisher Will Lewis (2023-?). 183
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 05/02/2026I cannot believe every Post photojournalist was laid off. I wrote this, in 2011, about how I love working with photographers. This passage is about the legendary Carol Guzy, who took a Style-section assignment as seriously as a war-zone trip. wapo.st/4kfOYEq 1123
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 05/02/2026I'm glad @erikwemple.bsky.social wrote about Marty, who represents something that is now being bulldozed all across Washington: institutional knowledge. 1113
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 05/02/2026An excerpt from Sally's piece. The Sports dept was a newsroom unto itself. I was thrilled to be part of their posse for Paris 2024. Collegial, intrepid, FUN. And I treasure this chat I had with @avarwallace.bsky.social about the race walk: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/the... 1103
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 03/02/2026This is what experts & officials told me then, about Maricopa’s 2020 votes and the forces aligned to corrupt them. 154
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 30/01/2026The kids use this phrase a lot, but it means something more actual to those of us born in the early 1980s: She was mother. 0162
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 26/01/2026These paragraphs in Robert Worth's dispatch from the Battle of Minneapolis, "a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest" that nevertheless "lacks the sort of central direction that Vance and other administration officials seem to imagine." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... 282
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 26/01/2026This exchange in Ben Terris’s story on Trump’s health, his view on mortality and legacy, and his Cabinet’s contest to say the most over-the-top thing about his physical prowess. nymag.com/intelligence... 1333998
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 24/01/2026Formerly: associate counsel to DHS and George W. Bush, appointee in Trump 1.0, and SVP at the Heritage Foundation. 14927
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/... 905178527435
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 03/01/2026Trump on the phone with Fox & Friends right now: “I watched it literally like I was watching a television show.” 060
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 03/12/2025Swings of no less than 7 points, and up to 25 points. #TN07 181
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 12/11/2025Remember Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch saying hello on a tarmac. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u... 0105
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 11/11/2025Great portraits here of centenarian WWII vets by Maxine Wallace. wapo.st/4p277a7 03313
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 06/11/2025"It was one of the most horrific things I’ve ever seen." "If you’re going to take one of us, take all four of us." "They took him. They took him. They took him." The photos & quotes here, including that of an "extremely volatile" ICE officer enjoying her lollipop... nymag.com/intelligence... 002
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 31/10/2025Trump said he was going to make the Kennedy Center “hot." Occupied seats are down 36% since last fall. Sales are the worst they’ve been in years. Trump's "actions have been worse for business at the Kennedy Center than the aftermath of a global pandemic." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... 22311
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 27/10/2025“…a furloughed Labor Department employee in Texas said she had been going from room to room inside her home in a San Antonio suburb to see what she could sell to help make ends meet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u... This is the facade of the Labor Department headquarters in D.C.: 034
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 25/10/2025An evisceration of Karine Jean-Pierre’s new book, by Becca Rothfeld. wapo.st/477lK5X 611328
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 02/10/2025CHICAGO — “We’re being invaded by our own military.” abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi... 136
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 10/09/2025This happened in Southern California over the summer. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... 0105
