Ellen Barry

Even now, he opposes illegal immigrants. "They're parasites," he says. But his wife is an illegal immigrant. "I'm a walking contradiction." Gripping piece by the amazing @tavernise on the complicated reality of immigration in one northwest Arkansas family. nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/…

Of the people who have starved to death in Gaza since the beginning of the war, 80 percent are children, @UNICEF reports: unicef.org/press-releases… This is an episode that shames the world, and the US is particularly complicit.

"It's a wipeout." From @elisaslow, an acute, painful description of a business hollowed out by ICE raids. One particular awful scene involving a box cutter will stick with you. nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/…

Thank you to my colleagues, editors, security and legal teams for all your support. I feel lucky everyday to work at The Wall Street Journal. I am also moved by all the kind messages from readers and colleagues at other outlets. And here's our latest… wsj.com/us-news/jeffre…

Comments are open on my article about how patients are impacted when a therapist dies unexpectedly. Readers are recounting their own experiences. ("Calls, no response. I found his obituary online.") nytimes.com/2025/07/24/hea…

Fascinating & hopeful tale from Rachel Aviv suggests that in some cases, psychotic symptoms may be caused by autoimmune disorders -- in other words, that recovery is possible. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

The superintendent of schools in Winooski, VT, a US citizen, was detained by CBP in Houston and questioned for five hours, an experience he described to VT Digger as "surreal" and "dehumanizing." vtdigger.org/2025/07/23/win…

When a therapist dies suddenly, what is left behind? nytimes.com/2025/07/24/hea…

Attention all Boston-area Punjabi princesses, book club aunties, Khan Market influence peddlers and B-list maharajas. A week from today, I am interviewing the irrepressible @AatishTaseer at Porter Square Books about his haunting new memoir. Come with questions.

An FDA expert panel on the use of SSRIs in pregnancy featured prominent, longtime critics of psychiatric medication, suggesting the agency may be moving toward a "black box" warning for pregnant women taking the drugs. nytimes.com/2025/07/21/hea…

A company founded by RFK Jr.'s right hand helps supply people with letters attesting to their medical need for products like Peloton bikes and $9,000 saunas to get a tax break. @ronlieber @benjmueller nytimes.com/2025/07/18/bus…

EXCLUSIVE: Despite vow to remove the worst offenders, ICE data shows less than 1% of deportees had murder convictions. Of the approx 100k deported since Jan, 70,583 were convicted criminals - but most were traffic/immigration offenses @margbrennan @CBSNews cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…

The Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.” Days earlier, a Lancet study estimated that USAID global health programs have saved 90 million lives—not since 1991, but since just 2001.

Brilliant @antontroian dispatch from Dubai, which has replaced London and Palm Beach as redoubt for the Russian elite. Manages to show how, and why, powerful Russians have stuck with Putin as he led their country into fratricidal war. (Read to the end.) nytimes.com/2025/07/11/wor…

NEW: President Trump loves ICE. But a “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out, morally conflicted and miserable, @NickMiroff writes. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Comments are open on this piece on antidepressant withdrawal and a new analysis suggesting that withdrawal symptoms are, on balance, mild and transient. nytimes.com/2025/07/09/hea…

A new study published today in JAMA Psychiatry finds withdrawal from antidepressants is mostly mild and transient, a finding its authors hope will reassure patients. However, the new analysis is unlikely to resolve debate about antidepressant withdrawal, which is hampered by a…

I wanted to finish this night on one positive note: This is Scott Ruskan, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He is credited with saving 165 people from Camp Mystic. It was his first rescue mission. Here is his story: nytimes.com/2025/07/06/us/…

🧵 “2 US contractors…said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous & irresponsible practices. They said the security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed & seemed to have an open license to do whatever they…