Your Mid-Week Experiment

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported post-vacation edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.

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Let’s get right to it:

An English-language newspaper I wrote for in the early ‘90s in Moscow has been branded an “undesirable organization” by the Russian government. (AP) Here’s article I wrote for them about a baseball scout who worked for another undesirable organization, the California Angels. (Moscow Times)

This story makes me want to break things and punch people. (Pamela Colloff)

Hoo boy. The story about one of the most-contentious custody battles in the history of New York is far stranger than anything you can imagine. (Francesca Block)

If you’re like me, you kind of got the idea that maybe Joe Biden was being treated for Parkinson’s. That’s the fault of The New York Times, and here’s why. (Margaret Sullivan)

This recipe for chicken tikka masala? Easy and good. (New York Times Cooking)

My wife was safer from harassment in Jordan than female staffers are in the Texas Senate. (Olivia Messer)

I love a good story about Uber being defrauded by exploiting their security loopholes. (Wired)

Been rewatching The Wire. The writing and acting holds up better than the filmmaking, but I have to ask, is Omar the greatest queer character in TV history?

Underwritten but well-acted. Always love Olivia Colman. Now will always love Jessie Buckley in whatever she’s in.

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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself is out from Penguin Random House.