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  • 1 week ago | theatlantic.com | David Litt

    For most of my adult life, I worked in and around Democratic politics, and my hobby was work. Then, in 2022, I started taking surf lessons and got hooked. In April of 2023, and again last December, I took a trip to an outdoor wave pool in Waco, Texas. If you want to meet the voters who swung toward Donald Trump and put him back in the White House, you could do worse than the hot tub at Waco Surf.

  • 2 weeks ago | microbiologyresearch.org | Carmen Sheppard |Sam Manna |Natalie Groves |David Litt

    Introduction. In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Global Invasive Bacterial Vaccine Preventable Disease (IB-VPD) Surveillance Network (GISN) to monitor the global burden and aetiology of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and sepsis caused by Haemophilus influenzae (Hi), Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp). Hypothesis/Gap Statement.

  • 3 weeks ago | wsj.com | David Litt

    David Litt, a former Obama speechwriter, finds common ground on the waves of the Jersey Shore in his new memoir, ‘It’s Only Drowning’ | Illustration by Michael Haddad for WSJ. Magazine IN PARTS OF Central Jersey, people signal their wealth with columns. Homeowners accumulate decorative pillars the way rich men in biblical times hoarded camels. Deal has more columns than all the surrounding towns put together. Some of its homes are the size of airplane hangars.

  • 1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | David Litt

    Earlier Monday President Trump unveiled his latest trade-war masterstroke—caving to China and pretending he hadn’t. Before that, when it came to his economic message, he was mostly playing with dolls. “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30,” Trump said last week, when asked if his tariffs might lead to a supply-chain shortage at Christmas. “A young lady, a 10-year-old girl, 9-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesn’t need 37 dolls,” he said on Air Force One, gaggling with reporters.

  • 2 months ago | thedailybeast.com | David Litt

    This year, for the first time since inviting a comedian to headline in 1983, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner promised there would be no entertainment. In that regard, it delivered. I didn’t attend Saturday night’s dinner, partly out of principle after the White House Correspondents’ Association disinvited a comedian at the Trump administration’s request, and partly because no one invited me.

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