KerryHowley
@KerryHowley
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Staff Writer, New York Mag. Screenwriter. New Englander in Los Feliz.
Joined February 2009
NYT names Bottom’s Up and The Devil Laughs among the top ten books of the year!
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The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.
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if your only professional interest is raising the salience of six annoying woke undergrads while an aspiring fascist accrues power, Im not really sure it matters if you are “left” or “right”
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troubled by this bifurcation of brain function and eyesight
Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work now we know their eyes don't work.
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As the son of an undocumented immigrant (my mom overstayed an au pair visa for years before marrying my dad, a U.S. citizen), it’s deeply personal: Reddit wouldn’t exist if ICE had come for her. I do think border security matters. But it shouldn’t come at the cost of crushing
Later we'll find it hard to believe that masked thugs were dragging people off the street at gunpoint. At least I hope we will, since the other alternative would be to decline into the kind of country where that's normal.
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What do we want? Restore US manufacturing! How we gonna do it? Force a shrinking US manufacturing industry to pay import taxes to the feds, and then re-route the money to soy farmers!
Scoop: Hill Republicans estimate Trump will need to send as much as $50 billon to farmers hit by his tariffs Trump admin plans to roll out billions from USDA But Treasury officials + others eyeing ways to tap tariff revenue, without a fight in Congress https://t.co/VjBSpfDTn5
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Criticizing institutions is easy. Changing them is hard. Running them well is harder.
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Hacker houses are not new. But the ones cropping up now in San Francisco, in response to the AI boom, feel different to Professor Dumpster, a former college dean who spent time in the city during the dot-com boom. https://t.co/rghQ8SUNdI
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I spent some time wandering around SF with kids who read minds, raise millions, and subsist on Celsius
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Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.
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“violent thinking”
Let’s be perfectly clear: a school board member suggested it was ok to shoot people for their beliefs. She must resign immediately. Not tomorrow, not next month, immediately. It is beyond unacceptable for the Chesterfield County School Board to push off this resignation till
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no leftist would be able to keep their mouth shut about what specific type of anarchist or communist they are for this long under these circumstances
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This November, I’m teaching an online class on Augustine’s Confessions. One of the things we’ll focus on is how Augustine makes thinking dramatic—a kind of narrative action. 6 sessions, all recorded. I’d love for you to join us. Full info here: https://t.co/ruS08jjPlI
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jesus christ, put a trigger warning on this backpack review
After nine years, we finally had to replace our Pottery Barn Mackenzie Backpack. Our son agreed — but only if it was the bigger version of the same thing.
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This by @BrockColyar is so well done
Model Vivian Wilson’s father — Elon Musk — is the richest man alive with an anti-trans vendetta. She’s still figuring out what she wants to do.
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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
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This is intensely 2010s millennial, verging on twee, this is what happens when we take power
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The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born https://t.co/qYM6r59U8T
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The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born. The body of 5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza on Friday and her family buried her on...
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Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this—11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: https://t.co/2QfDjDN0uv
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Here’s my advice for handling the awesome responsibility of this job.
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Everyone deserves a world without impaired driving. Learn how Waymo is working to make our roads safer.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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