When someone says “It’s all gone to Hell in a handbasket,” what they mean is that everything is utterly and irredeemably ruined. But why Hell? And why a handbasket, of all things?

If your impression of the state of the world comes mostly from the 6:00 news, you can’t be blamed for wondering if we’re all going to hell in a handbasket. But if you approach the question ...

That seemed suspicious to Marisa Kabas, an independent journalist in New York, who asked the Reflector for permission to publish the text of the column on her own website, the Handbasket.

In addition, Meta subsequently blocked all links to journalist Marisa Kabas’ website The Handbasket for several hours on Friday, after she republished the op-ed with permission of the Reflector.

In the wild political week that followed the funding freeze memo, readers rewarded Kabas for her scoop. The Handbasket went from 8,300 subscribers to 16,000 — and the number who pay ($8/month, ...

Kabas publishes her own newsletter, called The Handbasket, on Beehiiv. She broke down how she built and is growing her newsletter business, which has 17,500 subscribers. Everything changed for ...

Before I could focus on the beautiful spring morning outside my window, I had the sinking sensation that, well, we are going to hell in a handbasket — again. Why can’t they fix things these ...

Kabas has her own website, the Handbasket, but to give the story wider visibility, she posted a screen shot of the memo on the social media site Bluesky. Then she waited. Her stomach was in knots.

This story is part of a series by Kansas Reflector and The Handbasket to examine the one-year anniversary of the raid on the Marion County Record. MARION — When police raided the Marion ...