Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Reading archive 2025-05-20

As a Ukrainian American, I’ve been preparing for this betrayal My father taught me how resistance movements can persevere despite overwhelming odds.

As ‘Around the Horn’ ends, Tony Reali debates what went wrong: Canceled by the network, an ESPN staple ends this week. Its longtime host is still trying to understand why — and what’s next.

Plant-based meat has a problem. It may need more meat.: Blind taste tests show several blended meats are outperforming conventional meat, in addition to 100 percent plant-based products.

The New York Post judges The Fact Checker: After a scathing editorial, we re-examined three fact checks to see if they stood the test of time.

More say Metro is safe from crime, especially higher-income riders: A Washington Post-Schar School poll finds a spike in positive views about crime on Metro is driven by riders making more than $200,000 a year.

Five people fatally shot in D.C. in six days, police say: The killings appear to narrow the gap between the number of homicides this year and the number last year at this time.

How Colin Jost Became a Joke: The “Weekend Update” host knows exactly what he’s doing.

Shutting Down Salman Rushdie Is Not Going to Help: Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

‘We’re Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI’: The true story behind the chaos at OpenAI - "Near the end of last year, the six largest tech giants together had seen their market caps increase by more than $8 trillion after ChatGPT. At the same time, more and more doubts have risen about the true economic value of generative AI, including a growing body of studies that have shown that the technology is not translating into productivity gains for most workers, while it's also eroding their critical thinking."

The Myth of the Poverty Trap: We know how to end extreme poverty. Why haven’t we done it? - "Unpack that a little bit, right? I mean, if you take it a little bit too literally than it's meant to be, it presumes that the guy doesn't know how to fish in the first place. Maybe, actually, he did know, and what he needed was a fishing rod. It presumes that the lake isn't getting overfished, right? Maybe there are tons of people out there fishing, and the big issue is sort of overextraction of natural resources, and we definitely should not be teaching more people to fish, right? It presumes, as you said, right, that we're good at teaching people how to fish. Maybe we're not. Maybe it's hard, and it's not something that we know how to do well. So there are all these sorts of assumptions baked into it, and that's why it's important to test. And you go out and test it, it actually doesn't."

New clues point to why colorectal cancer is rising in young people: Scientists identified a link between colorectal cancer and a toxin in the gut. Eating more fiber may help reduce your risk.

Local leaders say they’ll pay $5.6 billion to automate Metro: But a regional sales tax proposal to foot the bill doesn’t have enough support, D.C. lawmaker says.

We all have hemorrhoids. Here’s how to keep them happy.: Eating a fiber-rich diet and spending minimal time on the toilet may help prevent painful hemorrhoids

Gen Z users and a dad tested Instagram Teen Accounts. Their feeds were shocking.: Meta promised parents it would automatically shield teens from harmful content. Tests by young users and our tech columnist found it fails spectacularly on some important dimensions.

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