New: U.S. ranking in 2024 World Press Freedom Index plunges to No.55 (behind Chile and Ivory Coast, among others). ⁦RSF⁩ says “major structural barriers to press freedom persist in [U.S.], once considered a model for freedom of expression.” rsf.org/en/index

'He said, 'You can call me Joe,' and I said, 'Can I call you Joe-bi wan Kenobi?''

You never know who will show up at the White House briefing from a galaxy far, far away.

.Evan Gershkovich has spent more than 400 days in a Russian prison on bogus charges without trial and Austin Tice has spent more than 4,200 days in captivity after being abducted in Syria. The publishers and editors of the The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post come together on World…

About 13,500 people in the US died in alcohol-related car crashes in 2022, 33% above 2019’s toll and on par with 2021.The last time so many people died as a result of collisions involving intoxicated drivers was in 2006. ⁦Scott Calvert⁩ wsj.com/us-news/drunk-…

Employers added 175,000 positions in April, undershooting forecasts. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%. Lydia DePillis nytimes.com/live/2024/05/0…

Biden to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a host of prominent Americans, including several important political allies like Pelosi, Kerry and Clyburn. nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/…

Such good news!

Are we reliving 1968? Or 2020? Or some combination of both? ⁦Susan Glasser⁩ weighs in. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

Totally true except for the 'become' part. She's been rocking it for quite a while now.

A very special DC 📕 🐛 event: Excited to talk books with Carlos Lozada on 5/22!

Trying to make a point about the value of immigration, Biden calls Japan and India 'xenophobic,' once again complicating his foreign policy with unscripted remarks on the campaign trail. ⁦Michael D. Shear⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/…

Biden breaks days of silence to finally speak out on the wave of anti-Israel protests on American college campuses that have inflamed much of the country, denouncing violence and antisemitism even as he defended the right to peaceful dissent. nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/…

Trump refuses to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 election if he loses, again repeating his lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. ⁦Michael Gold⁩ ⁦Chris Cameron⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/…

Arizona lawmakers vote to repeal an abortion ban that first became law when Abraham Lincoln was president and a half-century before women won the right to vote. jack healy Elizabeth Dias nytimes.com/2024/05/01/us/…

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Some Democrats want Biden to be more outspoken about the college protests. “I appreciate what his spokespeople have said,” says Gottheimer, “but it’s also critically important that the president is out there in a forceful way against the violence and hate speech on many of our…

Out this week: 'Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart -- Again,' by Robert Kagan, who argues that this year's election 'is a referendum on whether the liberal democracy born out of the Revolution should continue.'

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Pretty remarkable: CNN reporter Julia Vargas Jones is live ON CAMPUS as the NYPD gathers outside Columbia University. 'I could only get in because I'm a student,' she notes, because she's also a grad student at Columbia Journalism

Deadline is tomorrow for admitted students to decide on Ivy colleges like Columbia — hard to see this week’s events as a great advertisement…