A Bowling Family Guide to Cairo and Luxor
Hot air balloons preparing for a pre-dawn lift-off, in Luxor My Sunday is busier than usual. The Seattle Sounders played their season opener this morning...
Football Dreams to Last the Years
The nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine advocate was confirmed this week as Secretary of Health and Human Services, placing nearly all federal healthcare...
Staying Informed Without Losing Your Mind
This was another banner week for news. We had our first major commercial aviation crash in over a decade, a second plane crashed directly into a neighborhood...
Egypt Is Calling You (and You Should Answer)
So, this week was something… but I feel like I say that every third or fourth one of these. After the November election, I spent three straight newsletters...
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em Ban Them
I planned to write today about our December trip to Cairo and Luxor. It was our third trip to Africa and one of the most mind-opening trips that I’ve taken....
Lessons from Los Angeles
AP Photo/Ethan Swope We’re back, baby! Over the brief winter interlude the newsletter hit a milestone, our second anniversary of cultural takes and...
Fighting the Right Fights: More on School Choice
Good Saturday morning, Winter Break is here in the Gulf and adventures await! Hope and I are kicking things off first thing Sunday morning with a flight to...
To the Victors Go the Spoils, Part III: School Vouchers
Secretary of Education Nominee Linda McMahon My, oh my, do we live in interesting times. As I sit down to write this week’s newsletter, Arabic-language news...
To the Victors, Go the Spoils: Part II
Welcome to our new subscribers, especially those (presumably) joining us via Bluesky! I’m thrilled to have you aboard. A big thank you as well to our...
To the Victors, Go the Spoils: Part I
I didn’t write last week. It wasn’t because I didn’t have anything to say, but that I don’t think anyone wanted to hear where my head was. Midday Sunday Hope...
We Need to Be Pragmatic
General Francisco Franco and Benito Mussolini are two historical figures on my mind this week Boy, has this been a week! Don't worry. This is not a...
A Foul Wind
Numbers have always had this weird grip on me—they just stick. I think it traces back to my days playing fantasy baseball in the '90s. By now, “Nate’s into...
Readers Have Their Say
Happy Sunday, This week's newsletter is largely going to be a reader mailbag of responses to the piece last week. In that edition, I wrote about feeling out...
Feeling Out Of Step
Hey folks, this week was Fall Break here in the Gulf. Hope and I spent a long weekend in Yerevan, Armenia. If that sounds familiar it’s because we did the...
Foreign Policy, Fighting Bad Guys, and Stories from Lebanon
Hope and I cast our ballots electronically on September 26th, so, mercifully for us, the election is over. I know it’s not actually over, but it is for me....
Rebel Ridge: Civil Asset Forfeiture and Policing for Profit
Happy Wednesday, This week’s newsletter is arriving later than usual because Hope and I returned late Sunday from a weekend trip to Doha. Because we moved to...
Getting Back at Scammers & News of the Moment
There are at least half a dozen topics that I considered writing about at various points this week. I often joke that we live in absurd times, but it feels...
Are We Allergic to Data?
Pardon me in advance for the brevity of today's newsletter. I opened last week by wishing my mother a happy 84th. On the eighteenth, I'll be celebrating my...
Changing Your Mind is a Virtue
First off, happy 84th birthday mom. I hope your tea celebration is a success today and you feel loved and celebrated. Thanks for being the best parent...
November Can’t Come Soon Enough
After weeks of being pestered by her rivals, Vice President Harris finally sat down with the press for her first interview as the Democratic front-runner....