Susan Glasser

Donald Trump’s Shutdown Power Play The President learned in 2019 how to undercut Congress in a funding fight, and he’s been making the same move ever since.

Trump’s shutdown power play…

My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Donald Trump’s Shutdown Power Play The President learned in 2019 how to undercut Congress in a funding fight, and he’s been making the same move ever since.

Trump’s shutdown power play…

My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 09/27/2025 · 44m

The successful public backlash against silencing Jimmy Kimmel contains some big lessons on what works in the face of autocracy, as expert Hardy Merriman explains in this fascinating episode with my co-hosts @janemayer.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

When you give yourself a Department of War, soon enough you are going to find a war to fight.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Donald Trump Keeps Finding New Ways to Shock the World Two speeches—one endorsing hate and another warning foreign nations “you will fail”—encapsulate a Presidential agenda that is like no other.

Over a few days, Trump "offered two of the clearest statements imaginable about his top domestic- and foreign-policy priorities: vengeance against his political enemies at home and an upending of the globalized world order internationally," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Donald Trump Keeps Finding New Ways to Shock the World Two speeches—one endorsing hate and another warning foreign nations “you will fail”—encapsulate a Presidential agenda that is like no other.

“Two speeches—one endorsing hate and another warning foreign nations “you will fail”—encapsulate a Presidential agenda that is like no other.”

Nailed by @sbg1.bsky.social in @newyorker.com

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Our podcast with a very 🔥🔥🔥 @hillaryclinton.bsky.social is out. Hope you can take a listen here:

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker Politics Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, the...

Just taped new episode of @newyorker pod with @hillaryclinton.bsky.social and she was 🔥🔥🔥on everything from Jimmy Kimmel to Trump’s ‘medieval court’ to how Putin owned him in Alaska… w/great pals @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social

Posting later today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I Saw How Russia Killed Media Freedom Censorship is central to the story of Russia’s descent into KGB dictatorship.

RDI Chairman @garrykasparov.bsky.social: "Last night, apropos of nothing at all, I was thinking about how in Russia, you can’t go on television and make fun of the president or his favorites."

New York, November 22, 2006-The Committee to Protect Journalists marked its 25th anniversary by honoring four journalists with its 2006 International Press Freedom Awards in a ceremony Tuesday night which highlighted record-setting attacks on the press in Iraq. More than 850 people attended the benefit dinner which raised $1.3 million. It was co-chaired by Robert A. Iger, president and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, and John S. Carroll, the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent and CPJ board member, hosted the dinner.

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”

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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

Withdrawing from the War on Cancer: an extraordinarily successful scientific research system that took decades to build, saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits is being dismantled in short order. @jonathanmahler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Charlie Kirk and the Long Shadow of Political Violence Podcast Episode · The Political Scene | The New Yorker · 13/09/2025 · 37m

No better podcast for understanding this deeply disturbing time in US politics
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Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left? After Charlie Kirk’s tragic killing, the President speaks not of ending political violence but of seeking political vengeance.

Trump, after Kirk’s awful murder, calls not for reconciliation, but for vengeance…

My column:https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/did-trump-just-declare-war-on-the-american-left

Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left? After Charlie Kirk’s tragic killing, the President speaks not of ending political violence but of seeking political vengeance.

"While others were praying for a sane conversation" about how to end political violence across the spectrum, Trump and his allies "defined the crisis differently: it was about the American right under siege—and what Trump was going to do about it." @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Did Trump Just Declare War on the American Left? After Charlie Kirk’s tragic killing, the President speaks not of ending political violence but of seeking political vengeance.

Trump, after Kirk’s awful murder, calls not for reconciliation, but for vengeance…

My column:https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/did-trump-just-declare-war-on-the-american-left

How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week? From tariffs and immigration to the National Guard, federal judges are rejecting Trump’s ridiculous cover stories.

Trump’s losing-est week?

My new column on federal judges pushing back, from tariffs to immigration to Harvard and the National Guard: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week? From tariffs and immigration to the National Guard, federal judges are rejecting Trump’s ridiculous cover stories.

Trump’s losing-est week?

My new column on federal judges pushing back, from tariffs to immigration to Harvard and the National Guard: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Anyone who has covered the White House, worked in or around it, or covered Washington in the last generation knows that Mark Knoller was the very very best of DC. I honestly can’t imagine a presidency without him.

Credit to @general-ben.bsky.social

The Sycophancy Must Be Televised Notes from the longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet.

The Sycophancy Must Be Televised…

My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The Sycophancy Must Be Televised Notes from the longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet.

"Trump’s biggest reveal is what he shows about those around him; he is a mirror, and not a flattering one, for other people’s souls." @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the "longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Didn't take long to get to this...

Remembering four days ago when Trump said this was like totally happening?

"This F.B.I. raid … represents a direct attack on one of the President’s most informed and unrelenting critics, … whose … account of Trump’s ignorance, perfidy, and willingness to betray the national interest [counters] the … pro-Trump propaganda now embraced by most of the American right."