Peter Eavis
@PeterJEavis
Reporter at The New York Times. I cover the business of moving stuff around the world. Tips appreciated: [email protected]
Insightful article by @PeterJEavis @nytimes "New Fees on Floating Garages Are Trump’s Latest Effort to Revive U.S. Shipbuilding" monkeylink.co/20da6a
Several years ago, Camp Mystic underwent a $5 million construction project. But instead of using that project to move at-risk cabins to higher ground, the camp built new cabins inside the 100-year flood zone. 7/9 nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.
The big problem with beef isn’t cow farts. It’s land. Cows use 10x as much as poultry or pigs. Americans eat 3 burgers a week—cutting to 2 would save a Massachusetts worth of land every year–and avoid a lot of deforestation. #WeAreEatingTheEarth: amazon.com/We-Are-Eating-…
RIP Dear Rod. Battle buddy, war zone housemate, mentor, friend, colleague. Rod Nordland motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, reported on the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal brain cancer. 🖤🙏 nytimes.com/2025/06/22/boo…
The real work of long-form journalism, William Langewiesche once said, came when he sat down to write. “Writing is thinking; writing is a form of thought,” he said. “It’s difficult for me to believe that real thought is possible without writing.” R.I.P. nytimes.com/2025/06/16/bus…
Happy FOIAFriday the 13th! NEW issue of my newsletter is out. In March, I filed a request with the US Institute of Peace just as DOGE was taking over the agency. This week USIP sent me the most incredible response to a #FOIA request I have ever received bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
The tariffs are crushing many small businesses. I spent the last month talking to one in Richmond, Vermont about its struggles. nytimes.com/2025/05/27/bus…
There's a bipartisan push in DC to build more ships in the US. I went to a shipyard in Philly to get a sense of what it will take to realize Washington's maritime dreams: nytimes.com/2025/05/27/bus…
#SignalLeaks Exposed When Bombs Would Fall in Yemen. But Defeating Houthis Won’t Be Easy. My latest with my colleague @peterjeavis: nytimes.com/2025/03/27/wor…
i did the math and the average cost of going through the panama canal was up nearly 60 percent from 2018-2023. but even with that increase, the canal's tolls and fees don't add much to the cost of consumer items. nytimes.com/2025/02/03/bus…
The other reporter in the family actually gets scoops!
Scoop from @SeabornLarson and me: A Hamilton senator recently signed a state-funded contract with a longtime business associate all without legislative leadership's knowledge or parktaking in the public bidding process. helenair.com/news/state-reg…
polycrisis is a fairly worthless, pseudo-intellectual term precisely because it can be applied to any period of history. There's *always* a bunch of stuff going on!
When I was working on my Everglades book, I fell down a fascinating rabbit hole researching Jimmy Carter’s politically suicidal but totally righteous effort to kill a whole bunch of useless porkbarrel water projects. It might have doomed his presidency! A quick 🧵 1
Right. Stock market weakness caused by prospect of Musk-led govt shutdown could be first test of Trump-Musk relationship.
The immediate 2019q1 macro slowdown that happened after the 2018q4 stock market selloff was mostly about the govt shutdown in Jan 2019 Worth remembering right now….
Amen, brother
This isn’t a “rebrand.” It’s reporting. I’ve written, for a long time, about problems with UnitedHealth’s size and practices. See this thread from seven months ago. But this episode is also part of that story. And it helps shed light on Thompson the person, not the caricature.
A new piece from me on Trump’s backing of the longshoremen. One key thing: after agreeing to a big wage rise, employers have toughened their position on automation. See within: nytimes.com/2024/12/14/bus…
