Jacob Weisberg's Blog, page 2166

The Director of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark on the One Scene He Had to Cut

The stories had to be scary, but not too scary.

Hong Kong Airport Sit-In Turns Violent as Protesters Clash With Police

Some protesters also beat a man they suspected of being an undercover police officer until he fell unconscious.

A Key Line in the Little Women Trailer Is Not From Little Women at All

Jo March, plagiarist.

The Angle: A Former Supervisor for a Migrant Shelter Recounts Her Experience

“There’s no dignity in how they’re being kept in these homes … People are profiting off detaining children.”

Should Succession’s Logan Roy Sell His News Companies?

Moguls never want to give up the access to power that media gives them.

What It’s Like to Work in a Shelter for Migrant Kids

Trump wants to build more shelters to detain migrant kids.

Killing the Filibuster Sounds Like a Good Idea—Until Your Party Holds the Senate

Cory Booker’s got qualms.Cory Booker’s got qualms.

The Terror: Infamy Is Both a Lost Opportunity and an Urgent Artistic Leap

The new season of AMC’s anthology series uses Japanese internment as a backdrop for a more supernatural horror.

Don’t Just Give Missy Elliott the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. Rename It After Her.

She deserves it.

In the Wake of El Paso, Do We Really Need to “Double-Check” the Second Amendment?

The man who walked around a Walmart with an AK-style weapon says he “did not anticipate customers’ reactions.”