NotableAn expert panel considers a blue wave in the midterms. “Unlike in 2024, I don’t have a particularly strong “gut” about this midterm, other than that it’s hard to imagine Democrats winning a statewide race in Texas.” — Nate Silver, a political analyst, in conversation with other election experts The Democratic Senate candidate who wisely defends oil. “This reframing might strike many environmentalists who’ve purchased electric vehicles or cut back on flying as unfair. But Ms. Peltola is partly responding to an asymmetry in how the government treats oil rights.” — Robinson Meyer, a contributing Opinion writer The violence that can’t be described in just one language. “Even as Israel states its goals openly, international governments and institutions keep recasting those aims in conventional political language: a conflict to be managed, an occupation expected to end, an extremist government that needs to be restrained.” — Yuli Novak, the executive director of B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Spotlight
The Age of Erratic AuthorityAs the Jordan Neely trial proved, no one is coming to save us. ICYMIThe rural vibe shift is real. “Down-home genres have gained new salience even outside red-state redoubts, sometimes as they are flipped and remixed by artists of all stripes.” — Matthew Schmitz, the editor of the magazine Compact More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “What Are We Doing to Our World of Wonder?”
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