What I learned about America at 3 miles per hour- beautiful writing by @NKingofDC about his trek from DC to NYC. Such a cool idea https://t.co/reY6Bh6HgQ
Had the pleasure of meeting a lot of people in the federal government while working on this project. There is a lot to learn here! #federalagencies#government https://t.co/hFb9y869rf
On Tuesday, I sat with my wife, my kids, and my mom (!) at the Hollywood premiere of “The Big Conn,” which comes out today. I wore a dark suit and white sneakers because I had no idea what to wear to a film that I am in. A film about the craziest story I have ever written. (1/15)
The border wall Trump called unclimbable is taking a grim toll.
Since 2019, when it was raised to 30 feet along much of the border in California, the number of patients coming to UCSD Medical Center’s trauma ward after falling off jumped fivefold to 375. https://t.co/Qm8anPRX3B
Hundreds of people, including many women and children are currently taking shelter inside a subway station in Kharkiv, #Ukraine as explosions are heard in the city. @washingtonpost
Today @washingtonpost we lost one such person. Rafael Morfin, a kind, generous and patient man in newsroom finance passed away. His work allowed us to do ours because of his attention to detail, rigorous accounting and endless processing of expense requests at all hours. 2/
Ok, let’s not call it Critical Race Theory. We won’t even call it “Black History.” Instead, let’s accept the premise they propose.
So, how does American history look if K-12 social studies & history teachers don’t teach kids about racism white supremacy.
A thread.
NEW: Massive trove of financial docs exposes offshore accounts of world leaders, billionaires, oligarchs, celebs and criminals. Revelations about Putin, King of Jordan and rising role of US in offshore finance. #pandorapapers#icij
https://t.co/2LAeF3ThWa
The #PandoraPapers is an investigation based on more than 11.9 million documents.
It exposes more than twice as many account holders and twice as many public officials as the Panama Papers did. https://t.co/B7qrGmlS9m
The Post and scores of other news organizations collaborated in the effort, conceived and organized by @ICIJorg, to illuminate the workings of this secret world on a scale never before possible. https://t.co/xHOaGlp2yb
NEW: #PandoraPapers reveals the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone else.
Brought to you by ICIJ and 600+ journalists, the largest collaboration in journalism history. 🧵 https://t.co/qXMuUcqPc4
Labor participation among men and women has always been unequal. The pandemic made things worse. How much worse? In today's @washingtonpost our team crunched the numbers and talked to women on three continents. Here is what we found. 1/
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I read this, cried, then spent the evening doing whatever my 6yo son wanted.
Being needed, by everyone, all the time, has been so hard these past 16 months. But, as the piece so beautifully articulates, being needed is also everything. https://t.co/2tRf4pb8Gi