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Dave Pell

@davepell

Managing Editor, Internet

Writer of the NextDraft newsletter, Author of "Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End."

501 Posts

  1. Deuces Wild

    By Dave Pell My ethics around picking up after my beagles during a walk have never truly been put through the paces. The true test is how a dog owner behaves when no one is looking. When you own a pair of howling beagle brothers, someone is always looking; often, half the neighbor
  2. A Ronna Way Train

    By Dave Pell After days of on-air reporter revolts, NBC News has reportedly unhired former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel. Some will position the outrage over McDaniel's hiring as being overly partisan or driven by a fear of hearing opposing views on opinion sh
  3. Come Hell and High Water

    By Dave Pell We often view rising tides through the prism of predictive computer models; a future for which we need to prepare. In a photo essay in Hakai Magazine , Tommy Trenchard takes you to a small (and getting smaller) island in Sierra Leone, where the rise is swallowing land
  4. Sh-t Happened

    By Dave Pell Step into my office, stop doom-scrolling the news, and lie down on the couch for just a minute (or actually 50). You experienced a traumatic period in your life. As the trauma receded, the first thing you tried to do was to put the whole experience behind you. This re
  5. One More Thing

    By Dave Pell When my then-girlfriend agreed to be my wife, I told her it was time to have the discussion about her converting. She said, "Don’t worry, I’ve already talked to the rabbi and started the process of becoming Jewish. I know our kids will be growing up in a house without
  6. Try That In a Big Town

    By Dave Pell Politics. Just the word probably evokes feelings of nauseating distress. But you're thinking of internet politics, social media politics, cable news politics, horserace politics, viral meme politics, dark money politics, and the politics of personal destruction. Let's
  7. A Method to the Madness

    By Dave Pell This season, my son coached an eighth grade basketball team. So I went to watch the team play. This is in character for me. Watching sports is one of my escapes, and let's be honest, there's a lot to want to escape from these days. I don't miss my son's HS Volleyball
  8. Orange in the Apple

    By Dave Pell Let's begin the week with a feel good story, so good that it will give you positive associations with orange. Not that orange. Tommy Orange, author of the highly acclaimed There There who just released a new, highly acclaimed novel . Our story begins with a pony-tailed
  9. Courting Disaster

    By Dave Pell During the endless hearings on her affair with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, we learned that Georgia DA Fani Willis regularly carries a large wad of cash. She should throw some of that scratch to my therapist because the twists and turns of these Trump cases have had a
  10. We Never Learn

    By Dave Pell There are few public intellectuals more closely associated with a topic than Jonathan Kozol is with education inequality in America. I remember reading his 1991 book, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools , just before embarking on high school teaching sti
  11. House to TikTok: Byte Me

    By Dave Pell If you're a political science teacher struggling to get your middle school students excited about learning how a bill becomes a law, this is your moment. The House just passed a bill that could ban TikTok , unless the social network splits from its Chinese-owned parent
  12. Fraught Milk?

    By Dave Pell Everything is part of the culture wars, even milk cultures. But identifying your political milk ilk is a little more complicated than choosing sides in other partisan battles. A couple decades ago, raw, unpasteurized milk was mostly popular among Whole Foods shopping,
  13. The Oscars Was the Bomb

    By Dave Pell My teenaged kids came upstairs for the Oscars telecast and sat on either side of me on the couch. And that's where they stayed. They watched the whole show. The Oscars should win an Oscar for that alone. Neither of them made a move from the monologue to the moment whe
  14. You Kids Get Off My Longevity

    By Dave Pell During the State of the Union address, Joe Biden basically yelled at Republicans, "Get off my lawn!" And in this case his lawn is the future of democracy and the modern world order. Look, a campaign year State of Union address isn't the kind of thing that's necessaril
  15. Grid Row

    By Dave Pell It's time to gird your lines. Computers have come for our attention, our jobs, and our social interactions. And now the computers are coming for the one thing we need to run computers: our energy. The demands of artificial intelligence and other heavy-energy users dom
  16. Deja Two

    By Dave Pell I still clearly remember election night in 2020, in part because I wrote a book about that year . Early on, it became clear the race was going to be close. And then my stomach started hurting. And then I remembered my ironic relationship with presidential elections: ea
  17. Cash Test Dummies?

    By Dave Pell I'm just back from my dropping off my daughter during her high school's hellish morning traffic jam, so I might be a little biased, but I find it hard to believe that computers could be worse drivers than humans. That said, there's no doubt that the self-driving car r
  18. Rocky Mountain Sigh

    By Dave Pell Even in the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, no one was high enough to think that this Supreme Court would let Colorado kick Donald Trump off the primary ballot. And so it was: Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot . "The court held that states may bar
  19. Close Encounters of the Third Branch

    By Dave Pell The Supreme Court just stood in the middle of 5th Avenue and shot the Constitution. SCOTUS has decided to hear oral arguments on "whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to invo
  20. Grabs Popcorn 🍿

    By Dave Pell "In October 19, 1878, Scientific American published a series of pictures depicting a horse in full gallop, along with instructions to view them through the zoetrope. The photos were taken by an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between Californ

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