Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026(pulitzer.org) |
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026(pulitzer.org) |
Love Texas Monthly, this was a tough read after that awful flood incident:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-first...
This is still being investigated by the NBA. I'm curious how it'll play out, but it's not a good look for the league.
The bedsheet protest scene is embarassingly relatable and ... I think my pyloric is aching up again.
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I've only ever started one Pulitzer (non-fiction) that absolutely could not be finished: The Killer Angels (although it was recommended to me by a former soldier who loved it).
I feel like all the oganizations have some of directive now to pick social justice theme books. I have no problem with it but i dont want to read books picked with a specific agenda.
> Drama > Liberation, by Bess Wohl explores the legacy of the consciousness-raising feminist groups of the 1970s
https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/05/trumps-defamation-suit...
"How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post"
Fascinating.
It isn't the "evil algorithms" at fault here - it's the high risk of fire.
Small newsrooms you've never heard of have a history of winning Pulitzer prizes.
No, it's not. But it is about Trump: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-4
... when Baby Jessica fell to the well & she really suffered and her parents must have been incredibly miserable, she got more CNN coverage than Rwanda and Darfur, right? And the question is, why does this happen and why do people care so much? And it turns out, there's research on what's called the "identifiable victim effect."
... you would expect it as more lives are at stake, we would care more, maybe in a linear relationship. Or, maybe we would care more in the beginning & there'll be kind of a diminishing return ... But it turns out, the function is different: We care a lot about individual life and care less and less as the pie... as the number of people become bigger.
... Stalin said, "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." And Mother Theresa said in the same spirit, "If I look at the masses, I will never act; if I look at the one, I will." ... It turns out that every time you activate cognition, calculation, thoughtfulness, you turn off the emotion — people care less and give much less.
https://bigthink.com/videos/why-we-have-more-sympathy-for-ba...Dan Ariely (who unironically isn't moved by plight of the Palestinians) also discusses this in the introduction of his book, The Upside of Irrationality.
>Brown’s “Perversion of Justice” series won a prestigious George Polk award. The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz, the attorney and television personality who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/julie-brown-pulit...
The rot runs deep
But given a choice between a 20 year old spy thriller involving a Prime Minister who retired 25 years ago, and a dead man, versus a revealing exposure of the dystopia we are all going to be living in imminently (whether Chinese or American), I think the balance tips toward the current winners.
A good choice though. Maybe next year.
You can hold the view that other issues (including the NBA) are more important, but pretending that criticism of Israel has any chance of being recognised by a Pulizer prize would be lying to yourself.
I don't think I've seen even a single mention in any mainstream news source that there is a risk the dirt that Israel has on trump is being used by Israel to blackmail him to do their bidding.