OZY Daily Dose

These aren't the typical mom texts about eating right and your love life. Amid a breakout season on the mound for the Los Angeles Angels, Tyler Skaggs' phone blows up with weekly missives about his pitching mechanics and emotional preparation. And he reviews them carefully, because on the other end is not just his mother, but also a legendary softball coach."She's seen me pitch more than anybody in the whole world, so she knows exactly what I need to do," Skaggs says.

OZY partners with McClatchy to bring you premium political analysis. OZY and McClatchy are teaming up to deliver in-depth coverage of this year's most pivotal political campaigns in the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections. The hype is easy to understand as soon as Josh Hawley steps in front of a crowd, like on a sweltering Memorial Day in Springfield, Missouri, where, in just 3.5 minutes, his rich baritone has hundreds captivated by a rousing lesson on the history of the holiday.

"Why don't you come with me?"Mike and I had been schoolmates in high school but didn't become friends until the summer of 1980, when we were both headed to Hunter College. We had just discovered, after several months of hanging out, that he worked for the veterinarian who practiced, and lived, in my grandfather's old house on Lexington Avenue."Dr. Asedo is YOUR grandfather?" he had said in disbelief.

It’s almost as if the ballots read: “We’re just not that into you, Donald Trump.” As we look at Tuesday’s special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District, and the primaries in Kansas and Michigan, two things become clear: Women are voting, and women are winning. Republicans have held the Ohio-12 seat since 1982, and President Trump won it by 11 points in 2016, but a Democrat came within 1 percent of winning it in this week’s special election.

Steve was a young Brit who worked with my mother at a market research firm in New York City. I had stopped in one Friday to pick my mom up on my way home from Hunter College, and while I was waiting, Steve came over. He told me that he used to stage-manage bands in England, and he had a show coming up in the city and needed a crew.Then he said that my mother had mentioned to him I had some band experience.

"Holy flying fuck, that thing took off!" Elon Musk shouts as he watches the first launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, two streams of fiery jet fuel propelling the rocket ship into the ether. Musk, clad in a tight black T-shirt, jumps up and down in excitement. He runs outside into the warm Florida sunshine at Cape Canaveral, beaming with pride as he gazes upward at his creation.

Christopher Gray admits he’s different from the typical tech entrepreneur. The founder of Scholly — a mobile and web app that matches students with scholarships — says he kind of stuck out when pitching venture capitalists on his idea. “I don’t fit the background of a lot of people who are in tech: I’m Black, I’m gay and I don’t come from a lot of money.

This week: Should everyone be required to be organ donors? Let us know by email or in the comments below. What is the worst place in America for health disparity? If you’re talking about obesity, hypertension, sleep apnea, diabetes or a number of other maladies, you’re almost assuredly talking about the South.

A fire roars up in the center of a wall of silver scales. The massive carp, skewered on metal spears, slowly smokes. Nearby a weathered chef turns a fresh fish over in his hands, cleans it with salt and then rubs tomato into its flesh. "Five minutes and you're done," Abu Seif says, "It's simple." The fire crackles in the background, while the Tigris flows calmly behind him.

American prosperity has been built to a large extent by reliable access to cheap energy, both domestic and foreign. So it came as a great shock to the economic system in October 1973 when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries cut off shipments of crude oil to the U.S. and other countries that supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War.