It's not your imagination. Your local playground really is too hot to play on. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/… But that baking play space is also the perfect opportunity to talk to kids about how a warming world affects them--and about how they can push for adaptations. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Thank you so much to everyone who read the project we published yesterday on the cost and value of breastfeeding, which is too often posited as both free and easy. I want to take a moment today to address some of the common responses to it.🧵

https://twitter.com/AlyssaRosenberg/status/1531638038991872000

Some folks have objected to the idea of assigning monetary value to breastfeeding, whether because it's silly to expect women should be paid for domestic labor or because it's a "priceless" bonding experience.

My hair caught on fire when I heard folks say "just breastfeed" because "it's free" in response to the formula shortage. If you had that response--or wondered why "just breastfeed" isn't the solution, this 🧵(and unpaywalled project) is for you: wapo.st/3t5MFe6 As my colleague @MonicaHesse once wrote, nursing is only free "if you believe women's time is worth nothing." Because I'm a lunatic, I used an app to track *every minute* I spent feeding my son for the first six months of his life. wapo.st/3t5MFe6

Maybe the most exhausting thing about the cancel culture wars is the constant demonstration from the conservative movement that it doesn't actually care about free speech: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… It's crazy-making, and I think probably deliberately so, for the Tom Cottons of the world to both rail about "cancel culture" AND try to yank federal funds from schools that teach material from the 1619 Project. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Because I'm feeling a little spicy, I wrote about Marvel, the Snyderverse, and America's response to cataclysmic events: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/… I don't necessarily think Snyder's superhero movies are better-made than Marvel's, per se: they're more personal and weird and I hate the action style in them. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

The freakout about #Cuties bothers me more than almost anything I've seen in a decade as a critic: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/… Two things are simultaneously true: #Cuties depicts disturbing, age-inappropriate behavior by young girls, AND it unequivocally views that behavior as sad and harmful to the girls involved. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

As I mentioned here, I'm taking some time to commission and edit pieces for @PostOpinions. A ton of you pitched me after I made that announcement (I owe many of you responses, for which I thank you for your patience). Let's talk a little bit about what makes a pitch work for us. First, it's important to distinguish between a topic and an argument. If you email me and say that you want to write about the media coverage of Trump, that's a start, but it's not actually an *argument*.