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Staff writer at The Atlantic, founding editor of The Best of Journalism–subscribe here:

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  1. Aug 30

    Better than Pinks, too. But not better than Top Dog.

    God help me for this, but I have to say it. The Costco hotdog ($1.65 with complimentary large soda, no membership required) is better than a Dodger Dog.
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    Aug 30

    Here's the piece I teased earlier: going into more detail on the pre-Trump history of birth certificates in South Texas.

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    Aug 29

    This happened to my brother and sister months ago. Were both born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley. Turned in birth certificates, all documentation needed. Were denied passports and asked to produce paperwork to prove they’re American. So yeah...

    U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question
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    Aug 30

    One thing that I see political analysts get wrong all the time. They over-estimate the extent to which Trump supporters know about (or believe) the various Trump scandals. There is simply a gigantic knowledge gap between the politically-engaged subculture and everyone else.

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  5. Aug 30

    ICYMI, a trove of exceptional nonfiction stories

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    Aug 30

    . Thank you for noticing Miguel Murado’s essay on Catalonia [] for your Top 100. He'll be delighted to be cited:

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    Aug 29

    Seriously psyched to make th@conor64 list for best journalism. It’s so good.

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  8. Aug 29

    This is enraging.

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    Aug 29

    very excited to see The Toxic Drama of YA Twitter on this list, on (almost) its one-year anniversary! thanks very much

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    Aug 29

    Dear thank you for making a local reporter's day (okay, let's be honest, I'll live off this until bleak mid-winter at least) by including a piece by me on 's best of 2017 nonfiction list

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    Aug 28

    This list by of 100 fantastic articles is excellent, and not just because it includes things I wrote and edited:

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    Aug 28

    Perhaps thousands of Americans died because we didn’t do enough, swiftly enough, to help them.

    the 95% confidence interval is much tighter than the previous big study from Harvard estimating north of 4,600. We’re looking at a range of 2,658 to 3,290. Either end of that range is biggest natural disaster in a century in the US.
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    Aug 28

    AYY look at me ma, I made the list

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  14. Aug 28

    Listed fifth is with “How the Elderly Lose Their Rights,” a jaw-dropping, how-can-this-be-allowed-to-happen kind of story. Read it before you get old!

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    Aug 28

    Today in , shared one of our favorite cover stories from 2017

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  16. Aug 28

    The prudent line was to laud all the careful reporting that outed horrific abusers, and to encourage and support those with their own stories of abuse, and to caution against harm to innocents, which did in fact happen See, e.g., the George Takei story:

    A reminder: Almost every major publication ran pieces last fall and winter suggesting that MeToo would irreparably damage the careers of even innocent men.
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    Aug 28

    Thank you to for the shoutout (and for saying CWT has "the most insights-per-minute of any interview podcast"!)

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  18. Aug 28

    Listed 4th: ’s wry Tocqueville-style essay “The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective,” a distillation of what he learned at Cambridge, Goldman Sachs, and Stanford Business School. He is wisely pro-Costco.

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  19. Aug 28

    There’s no better storyteller than —listen to the This American Life episode “The Super” if you don’t believe me—and his “What Goes Up,” listed third, chronicles the life of a helicopter pilot who played a part in most every local newscast today

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  20. Aug 28

    Listed second is ’s “On Being Midwestern.” Published in , the searching essay probes the curious paradox of a region many describe as “just like anywhere,” playing into “a regional identity built on its own denial.”

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