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Trump’s Flash-Bang Fakery, and the CEO who was the Master of Disaster
My big worry for Dems at the moment is not the danger of the wrong response to the LA protests, but getting mired in the return of deported Salvadoran…
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Big Beautiful Bullshit, America’s Game-Show Government, and London Glee About Zelensky
So now Congress is so sloppy and moronic they don’t even pretend to read the bills they vote for.
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My live video chat with Barry Diller: "It's a business based on instinct ... and instinct takes personality"
Listen now | My fascinating chat with Barry Diller, biggest of the big dogs about learning about himself as he wrote, interacting with glorious monsters…
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My favorite nugget in Tapper's Original Sin and Simon Schama's holocaust revelations
What a godsend Jake Tapper’s Original Sin has been for Trump!
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Big Dog Barry
What’s new in Who Knew, the propulsive memoir by entertainment legend, digital pioneer, and billionaire entrepreneur Barry Diller
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Talking All Things Media on The News Agents podcast
I listen to the News Agents every morning. On my trip to the UK, it was my turn in the interview seat.
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The Vatican's Unexpected Hazard, plus Yulia Navalny and the Fiery Truth Teller Tribe
Will the pope's loose cannon brother turn into the Vatican version of the Meghan Markle family?
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How Trump Outplays the Elite, Where the Truth Tellers Are… and Hunter S. Thompson’s Hysterical Letter Bomb
The most interesting takeaway from Monday’s Atlantic interview with President Trump is the way he muses wonderingly about elite targets caving under…
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What Pope Francis Shows us about Trump
The strange thing about the death of Pope Francis is that, when I saw the news alert, I was just gazing at a Reuters photograph of President Trump in an…
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My video chat with Robert Harris, author of the gripping papal election novel Conclave and a brace of novels about ancient Rome
Robert and I held our own video conclave to talk about what the transition to a new pope might hold , which emperor Trump reminds him of, and modern…
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Keith McNally's Regrets... and his Dazzling, Driven Life
I hardly knew the restaurateur Keith McNally in his heyday of the 80s and 90s.
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Space Oddity, Goodfellas in the White House, and my New Coping Mechanism
A friend of mine in her forties hosted a birthday party last week at New York’s most glamorous new club with the dress code of “drop-dead sexy,” which…
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