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Writing a book about THE TIME for Spiegel & Grau. Words have been in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New York, GQ, and more. Former Ideas Editor at Time.

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Joined February 2009
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The world’s time, to which all clocks are set, comes from small national labs, @NDHopper writes. In the digital era, no such lab had operated in a war zone until Russia invaded Ukraine: theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Sorry to do the “hey I wrote a long form about a person” thing but I did a story on Mal Swanson (then Pugh) 5 years ago and every time she shines I think of this espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/3…
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We are pleased and honored to announce S.E.Boyd's, The Lemon as the winner of The 23rd Thurber Prize for American Humor! The book, wowed our judges from start to finish, and we are thrilled to recognize this masterful achievement in humor writing.
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Man, @maggierogers is a real one — generous, smart, funny, a little wild at heart. Loved spending the last couple months talking art, writing, love, service, time, contentment, fame & more with her. Online now & in this week’s issue!
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In the weeks before his sentencing for 11 crimes on Jan. 6th, Brian Mock pleads his case to the person whose opinion he values most: the son who turned him in to the FBI. nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/po…
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New John Jeremiah Sullivan in @harpers: a prose poem about plumbing, plumbers, and the dark forces it takes to, as it were, find the clog. “‘Fran’s a little fucked up,’ Sean said, ‘but that may be just what you need.’” harpers.org/archive/2023/09/…
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The full Yates Report on systemic abuse in women’s soccer: kslaw.com/attachments/000/00…
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David Mills, the creator of an obscure software system that synchronizes time on the Web, has served as the Internet’s Father Time. But his tenure is coming to an end. nyer.cm/1MuqXUI
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As a series of recent landmark rulings show, the Supreme Court is waging a war on public sector expertise and national initiatives and rights — because it thinks it knows better: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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I’d wondered how an 18-year-old could afford the two rifles he bought. Turns out the manufacturers have financing plans. nytimes.com/2022/05/28/busin…
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Black Thought is the greatest rapper alive today and this remains perhaps the best 10 minute sequence of rap that I have ever heard in my life. Lyrically the whole thing is just extraordinary. Put this in the canon and teach it in every high school English class.
FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY.
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This is such good writing good advice, from @nicolesjchung’s new newsletter. I always try to do this, but I never had a name for it. newsletters.theatlantic.com/…
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New immigrants and Indigenous peoples meeting for the first time and discovering they share many of the same traditional dance moves is one of our favourites moments of this doc. (📺 : Behind the Bhangra Boys | @cbcdocs)
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This is fucking insane lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/…
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How well can @MagnusCarlsen identify chess positions? @DavidHowellGM tested the world champion, and the result is truly mindblowing! #ChessChamps
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