In the NYT apology post, they quote a letter from a reader that I’ve been thinking about a lot re: why the blobs thing bugged me so much: Read more

Hey - thanks for your comment! I think that’s a fair point. But, at least for me, the original article seemed less geared towards an earnest explanation, and more towards making it seem weird and exotic. Read more

I grew up in Tennessee and I had a similar experience. I see so many pics on Insta of people I knew growing up “discovering” the same food they used to tease me for! Read more

(Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Just so excited to talk to another Crazy Ex-Girlfriend watcher!)

Other people are discussing FDR too, so I wanted to share something re: Wilson Read more

Thanks for your comment. I’m (genuinely) curious how you feel about some of the other examples, like Dr. James Marion Sims who is considered the father of a branch of medicine that we still use today, but accomplished that by taking advantage of enslaved black women? Read more

I was referring to the three women named by the NYC Parks folks on their website/in their plaques, but you’re right: there are many more women who we don’t know today who were subjected to Sims’ troubling, unethical, and cruel methods. Read more

Oof - from the article you quote: Read more

Judging from some comments made on social media, it sounds like the people arrested knew that it was likely they were going to be arrested. Read more

All valid questions worth asking all candidates! We had to edit this conversation down for this article because without some cuts it would’ve been so long people wouldn’t have likely made it through the whole thing. Still, I’d be curious if you asked these questions directly what answers you’d get - from Allred, or… Read more

Apologies - we were missing a word here. It’s been fixed: Read more

Good catch - it was a typo. I’ve fixed in the story, and I appreciate you pointing it out! Read more

Thanks for sharing this info! Read more

Hmm - Can you share a screenshot of what the headline looks like to you? You can post it here or send to [email protected]. Genuinely curious. Read more

Good point - Think Progress reported that in 2016 a judge ordered that Kentucky had to give the park significant tax subsidies. A Bloomberg column from last year gives some interesting context to those subsidies. Read more

My colleague Jorge Rivas wrote a great explanation about this. In the article, there’s also an embedded video explainer: Read more

Also an excellent point - hard to tell what’s happening here for sure. Read more

Excellent eye! We’ll be updating the post. Thanks for pointing this out. Read more

Amazing. Read more

Guilty as charged – I was a sophomore at the time, though I do remember talking about that cover in journalism classes in college. Read more