The Will Leitch Newsletter

Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. This week for The Washington Post, I wrote about John Oliver. (That’s a free link.) Here’s a key quote: Much of the show’s success owes to Oliver’s skill as a performer, but it also benefits from Oliver avoiding the old trick of scoring political points then retreating to “Hey, I’m just a comedian, don’t take this so seriously!” when called out on it.

Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. On April 18, 1987, Ronald Reagan was wrapping up his final term as President, the No. 1 song in the country was “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)” by Aretha Franklin and George Michael, the highest-grossing movie was The Secret of My Success starring Michael J. Fox, TV’s Alex P.

Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. As someone who works in sports professionally, but, more so, as someone who deeply loves sports and spends a disproportionate amount of his time thinking about them, I’ve long struggled with a central question: Are sports bad for me? Are they bad for all of us? Let there be no doubt on this: The people who run sports are trying to screw you.

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The first entry in our 50 States Project, written by me, Will Leitch. Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. Error Today, I am doing the first of our 50 States Project, introduced here earlier this month. Read more about the project right here, and email me at williamfleitch@yahoo.com if you’d like to be a part.

We're coming up with a new naming rubric soon. I know I said I would start The 50 States Project this week with Illinois to use as a template, but I didn’t quite finish it, so it will be here next week. Then I’ll start getting back to you all about your potential contributions. You’re the best: Keep ‘em coming. Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it.

Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. Also, I got so many incredible submissions for The 50 States Project I introduced last week. I will be writing the Illinois version next week to provide a template, and then I’ll start getting back to you all about your potential contributions. You’re the best: Keep ‘em coming.

"You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzin around your eyes." Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it.

Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. John Dickerson, the respected political reporter, longtime co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, and former host of “Face the Nation” and “CBS Evening News” (before the recent madness) wrote a recent piece on people not getting enough sleep.

Here is a button where you can subscribe to this newsletter now, if you have not previously done so. I do hope that you enjoy it. Last week, and really every week so far of this exhausting, terrifying, interminable year, I have written about very serious issues—about living in what feels more and more like a pivot point in my life, your life and all of our lives. All told, I felt as if I had no choice; it would have been dishonest to pretend there was anything else consuming my mind.