The blistering bathos of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones’s climax presents a problem for America’s prestige publications
Game of Thrones’s climax presents a problem for America’s prestige publications
Dunking on Rachel Maddow may be fun, but she’s far from the sole perpetrator
Yet again, the US media sidesteps important foreign policy coverage
Was he guilty? Or just a jackass?
The company is now just another dreary enforcer of online norms
And it’s hurting him
Following Trump around to film his speeches doesn’t make you a hero
Usually it’s the president who looks worse for wear
Fake news in the Midwest
Its value lay in the fact it was an insider magazine
New York This week 50 years ago saw the assassination of Robert Kennedy, a man I met a couple of times in the presence of Aristotle Onassis, whom some Brit clown-writer once dubbed Bobby’s murderer. (Bad books need to sell, and what better hook than a conspiracy theory implicating a totally innocent man?) I once witnessed Bobby, at a Susan Stein party, asking Onassis for funds — the 1968 election was coming up — and Ari showing Bobby his two empty trouser pockets. Bobby’s assassination did alter American politics. Violence, black anger and despair spilled out on to the streets of American cities. His death caused far more grief among
You have to give it to Donald Trump. Not for pushing North Korea towards negotiations, or for holding China to account over dumping low-grade steel onto the American market, or even for healing the diplomatic breach between France and the United States—but for missing the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night. People accuse … Read more
His critics keep going nuts over the rhetoric – meanwhile, Trump proceeds with his agenda