Pope Leo Closes Africa Tour in Bata Prison With Dignity Claim Fused to Deportee Politics
The American pope closed his Africa tour inside a notorious Equatorial Guinea prison — in a country paid by Washington to hold third-country deportees.
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The Post Delays Its Layoffs, Rehires a Columnist, and Tests Whether Institutional Journalism Can Still Be Institutional
The Post pushes its layoffs, reverses a rehire, and Margaret Sullivan writes that the center cannot hold — three data points that are the same story.
Roldugin Case Holds Day Fourteen as the Data-Access Statute Becomes a Press-Freedom Instrument
Fourteen days after the statute's first use against a journalist it is still active, still unchallenged, and now a template other agencies are reading.
CBS Radio Day 31 Puts the Shutdown Mechanics in Plain View
A month after CBS took its radio division off the air, the Weiss–Cibrowski floor-plan split is the shutdown's visible architecture — reporting lines hardened into physical infrastructure.
USCCB Day Eight Silence Holds as Pope Leo Closes the Africa Tour
Eight days after Bishop Massa's Just War clarification, no Catholic-aligned administration figure has surfaced a reversal as Pope Leo closes the Africa tour in Bata.
Helen DeWitt's Windham-Campbell Refusal Reads Cleanly as Publishing Labor Critique
DeWitt's refusal of the $175,000 prize over six-to-eight-hour filming and festival obligations has hardened, two weeks on, into the accessibility-and-labor critique the book world has been owed.