Stephanie DeGooyer

In the past three decades, Labradoodles, Bernedoodles, and goldendoodles, among many other variants of so-called “designer dogs,” have taken over public spaces across the country—and ignited a backlash. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/3-ZdVB

NEW: As "tradwives" go viral, groups like Turning Point USA are urging Gen Z women to leave work and have babies. So we talked to tradwives who aren't rich influencers. One told us about relying on SNAP and Medicaid during her pregnancy — the exact programs the GOP is gutting.

This story is HORRIFIC. This DACA recipient was brought here by his parents in 1999 when he was 8 years old. He is a laboratory scientist who's had DACA since 2012. Now he's languishing in an ICE detention center because the Trump admin failed to process his renewal in time!

I had a great time talking to Annette Gordon-Reed about among other things her new collection of Jefferson's writings on race, plus, of course, politics and academia: chronicle.com/article/the-ch…

I have to hand it to Harry Styles. Anything he sings, even a cover of a decades-old Tears for Fears song, sticks in my head for weeks, sometimes years (still working on getting “As it Was”out). But “Welcome to your life…” is an awesome opening line.

Reviewer 1: "this is a great piece and I look forward to seeing it in print" Reviewer 2:

@sm_osment sleeping

today is day 1 of my six month sabbatical what kinds of hobbies should I take up

@jaycaspiankang Would love a review copy as soon as available! Great topic.

the book I've got coming out soon is about how so much of child raising for the middle classes is built off this model, how this leads to alienation and loss of community (and doesn't produce better athletes, mathematicians, or anything). Stay tuned.

It's Patrick, he took out life insurance!

LADIES. wanna get into the big leagues of publishing? in 2016 Studies in the Novel offers me a cool 0 dollar per word for an essay. Obviously I take it. Next, I catch the eye of American Literary Realism, offering to take my work for free. DONE. Next, GLQ offers me $0 EASY money

We’re launching a series of online seminars! First up, David Goldblatt, one of the world’s foremost writers on the game, will lead a four week course on the most political football World Cup in history. Book your spot here! equator.org/courses/world-…

The 2026 Citizenship Challenge is open! Students in grades 3-12 can submit an original question they believe should be added to the US Citizenship exam. Winners receive a $500 prize! Entries are accepted through Friday, March 13, 2026. Learn more: ow.ly/wx1u50Y6Av5

English professor Daniel Wallace (FFP ’19) will be inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame on Oct. 4 in Southern Pines. Read more on the College of Arts and Sciences website: go.unc.edu/Yt4g7

🚨send me journalism jobs🚨 We’re compiling job/freelance opportunities for our hundreds of #washingtonpost colleagues who were fired today. If you’ve got something please reply, DM, or email me Brianna.sacks@washpost.com Also I’m not above asking for a retweet. Thanks and ✊🏻

Somebody snap @Jacob_Brogan up! We need *more* smart, intellectual editors not fewer…

UNC Chapel Hill is asking me to purchase my own laptop. Mine is 5 years old and frizzing but there is no a longer budget to cover basic job tools. We are losing the basic tools…

It seems like only yesterday that nearly every American newspaper, dozens and dozens of them, even in mid-size cities, ran book reviews by local critics. The alt-weeklies (I wrote for many of them) were everywhere and had feisty and boisterous book sections. Time, Newsweek and other weeklies had serious critics who mattered to the conversation. All this is gone. The stamping out of the Washington’s Post’s excellent book section - one of the last standing - ends an era. It’s a turning point in America's literature, which can’t thrive without serious and ardent criticism - aka public talk, back and forth, between competing voices, in something like real time. The silence out there is good for no one. Gloom suddenly feels like eclipse.

If you'd like to support laid off journalists at the Post, some of my colleagues are started a go fund me gofundme.com/f/standing-tog…

The @WashPost has now laid off its Asia editor, its New Delhi bureau chief, its Sydney bureau chief, its Cairo bureau chief, the entire Middle East reporting team, China correspondents, Iran correspondents, Turkey correspondents, and many more. The world is becoming less America-centric by the minute while the United States is becoming more America-centric than ever. It is just a depressing yet somehow perfect summation of our current moment that one of the most important newspapers in the history of the country - one that has actually shaped the history of the United States - doesn't think reporting on the world is of any use anymore. What an utterly perfect encapsulation of where we have arrived.