Donald Trump is going around the country telling a weird madeup story about James Talarico fake-eating meat and then throwing up…
My report from the POTUS red-state panic tour: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

@sbg1.bsky.social
Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Donald Trump is going around the country telling a weird madeup story about James Talarico fake-eating meat and then throwing up…
My report from the POTUS red-state panic tour: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
20th time’s the charm… thx for having me on @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com
Pete Hegseth just declared victory in the wrong war…
My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Hegseth seems more intent on waging war against the Pentagon than against Iran. @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Pete Hegseth just declared victory in the wrong war…
My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Really enjoyed this podcast convo with @sykescharlie.bsky.social
"So many Republican candidates in recent days have broken with Trump that it’s as if a secret memo went out announcing that the floodgates were officially open," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The week the Republicans finally panicked about the midterms…
My new column — first one back from book leave — is up @newyorker www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The week the Republicans finally panicked about the midterms…
My new column — first one back from book leave — is up @newyorker www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
In any other time, the story of a Trump wedding lavishly bankrolled by a Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch would be weather-changing; a consuming multi-month festering scandal, bipartisan outrage, and impeachment.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/don-jrs-de...
#FirstAmendment. If journalists won’t stand up for it, hard to ask everyone else to.
Trump is strikingly unpopular at both ends of the economic spectrum (via @wsj)
Some nutty stuff in @maggieNYT @jonathanvswan book on Trump's failed effort to end Ukraine war, including Witkoff returning from Kremlin w/signed Putin doodle memorializing the "3+2" land for peace deal they wanted to force on Kyiv. Witkoff, touting "personal chemistry" with Putin, framed it.
OK, I did not predict this one...
America’s Orange Jesus…
My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
If this is winning, I'd hate to see what losing looks like...
my new column on Trump's Iran-war folly: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Trump has always wanted to end NATO. Is the Iran war giving him the pretext for the breakup he's long dreamed of?
my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
When you give yourself a Department of War, soon enough you are going to find a war to fight.