11.21 Matt Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s pick for attorney general. 11.20 Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at BTIG, quoted on CNN Business: “I don’t see Congress or the courts limiting the president’s authority. Ultimately, the only entity that has real power over the president’s thinking about his agenda is the stock market.” 11.20 Lydia …
10.31 Francis Wilkinson on Bloomberg: “[Trump] has been exploiting fear — scary Black man, no birth certificate — since long before he ran for office. His message is an endless cycle of Who’s More Frightening? Haitians starting a new life in Ohio? Or the trans kid at the local high school trying to make it through another day? Are …
9.30 Unredacted, by Christopher Steele 9.30 Pete Rose dies at 83. 9.30 Dikembe Mutumbo dies at 58. 9.29 The Chicago White Sox conclude the season at 41-121, the worst in MLB history. 9.29 Kris Kristofferson dies at 88. 9.27 Maggie Smith dies at 89. 9.26 Hurricane Helene makes landfall as a powerful Category 4 storm, …
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8.30 Trump at a Moms for Liberty rally: “Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. . . The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. And many of these childs, 15 years later say, what the hell happened? Who did this to …
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With our hospitable friends Jo and Scott putting us up, driving us around, and feeding us, we enjoyed a mini-vacation to Illinois. DAY ONE: Jo and Scott took us to Petterino’s, one of Chicago’s power restaurants, where caricatures of actors, politicians and media figures cover the walls. I’m happy that we were seated nect to …
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7.31 Trump on Harris, at an appearance at the NABJ convention: “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” 7.28 Elizabeth Cree at Glimmerglass 7.28 The …
The eight of us–Molly, Shawn, Cara, Connor, Ivy, Logan, Ginny and me, with our friends Greg and Susan Schmidt often sitting in– had a largely pleasant week at a house we rented in Hyannis. I missed the group outing to Martha’s Vineyard and Shawn’s fishing expeditions–but there were still many highlights. We took a boat …
6.28 Jerusalem Demsas in The Atlantic: “Joe Biden says he ran for president in 2020 because of Charlottesville. He says he ran because he saw the threat Donald Trump posed to the country and the threat he posed to democracy. If Biden truly believes that, he needs to end his reelection campaign. Indeed, dropping out …
5.31 Quinta Jurecic in The Atlantic: “[T]he Trump balloon has been punctured. The Übermensch is not so über. When Trump stepped out of the courtroom after the verdict to deliver remarks to the press, he walked with hunched shoulders, declaring his innocence in a flat, exhausted tone, as if he was struggling to summon his …
In this excerpt from Our Last Great Adventure, Doris Kearns Goodwin tells how on March 15, 1965, her future husband, Richard Goodwin, wrote the speech that President Lyndon Johnson delivered before a joint session of Congress in favor of the Voting Rights bill: “The moment Dick stepped into the West Wing on the morning of …