1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK:

Donald Trump wants you to forget that January 6 happened—but for one police officer who protected the Capitol, and another man who attacked it and was pardoned, there’s no forgetting, @ThompsonJamieL reports: https://t.co/ulBXRy0fpN

Here’s how Trump could take Greenland—and end NATO. https://t.co/uCQb1cFXWw w/ @isaacstanbecker and @JonLemire

Trump truly believes strong countries get rich by stealing natural resources from weak ones

The Fuck Around and Find Out Doctrine now enters the pantheon of the greats (Monroe...Truman...Reagan). My latest, w @missy_ryan, on Trump, Venezuela—and the Americas as the president's personal sandbox:

The Fuck-Around-and-Find-Out Presidency Truman, Reagan, and Monroe wouldn’t approve of the language, but a doctrine is a doctrine, even if it’s only five words long

Exclusive interview:

Breaking: In a phone call with @michaelscherer Trump says that if Delcy Rodríguez "doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro."

The operation targeting Nicolás Maduro can advance U.S. interests—but it’s unclear whether it actually will. My piece in @TheAtlantic explains: https://t.co/A455tJOEXA

Arash is one of the most important people to read if you want to understand what’s happening in Iran rn.

Key takeaway: “All opposition factions have failed to build powerful organizations or lasting networks that could direct the protests. Without such direction, the current protests are likely to lose momentum and fizzle out, just like previous rounds.” #IranProtests #RezaPahlavi

“Zohran Mamdani ran an unabashedly progressive campaign. But how he will govern New York remains something of a mystery”

The full story, for residents of Miami and other gloaters:

A decade ago, I noted in passing in an article on the Gettysburg cyclorama that the word "buckeye" was once a pejorative for things of inferior value. The story gets a little spike in readers every time Ohio State puts in a performance like that one.

Grateful to @ProMarket_org for putting "Stuck" first on their 2025 book list. Hope you found a copy beneath your tree this morning.

My mentions are evenly divided between folks annoyed at me for stating the obvious, and those annoyed because it's obviously untrue.

So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files

A fun thing to do is to tell the Department of Justice that you intend to comply with federal law, it's just going to take you a "few more weeks" to get around to it.

As I told @TheAtlantic here, stopping oil tankers heading to and from #Venezuela will cut into revenue, but will also harm the broader economy—and the 2019-2020 experience shows Maduro has no qualms about passing costs onto an already suffering population.

My take here, for ⁦@NickMiroff:⁩ "Claudia Sheinbaum’s Impossible Dilemma", ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩

4. So long as Hallmark is airing gauzy nostalgia where people imagine their childhood towns frozen in amber threatened by greedy developers, I feel good about our prospects as a country. It's where that becomes reality, rather than fantasy, that scares me.